Every developer who has built for Algerian e-commerce knows the pain: each delivery company ships its own API. Different authentication, different field names, statuses in French, Arabic, or bare numbers — and documentation that ranges from thin to wrong. Integrating one courier takes days; supporting five means maintaining five fragile integrations forever.

Today we're fixing that for everyone. dzship is a free, public shipping API for Algeria — one request shape to create, track, and price cash-on-delivery parcels with Yalidine, ZR Express, Maystro, NOEST, and 80+ couriers on the Ecotrack platform (DHD, Conexlog, MSM Go, World Express and more).

No signup. No API key. No cost.

Most Algerian online store owners can tell you their revenue last month. Almost none can tell you their conversion rate, their cost to acquire a customer, or how much that customer is actually worth. That gap is why 80% of stores stall before they ever hit 1 million DZD a month.

Algeria's e-commerce market crossed $1.5 billion in 2024 and is projected to pass $2 billion in 2025. Online businesses are growing at 92% annually. But growth without measurement is just guessing — and guessing is expensive.

This guide covers the three pillars of e-commerce analytics that actually matter for Algerian merchants: setting up GA4 to track the right metrics, running A/B tests that double your conversion rate, and knowing your unit economics down to the dinar.

At a glance: Algeria has 33 million internet users and 13 million online transactions processed in 2024, yet 95% of payments are still cash-on-delivery. Most stores track vanity metrics like page views. This guide shows you which 6 metrics actually predict revenue, how to A/B test with Algerian traffic volumes, and how to calculate your true profit per order — so you stop guessing and start scaling.

How to turn one-time buyers into repeat customers — without spending a dinar on ads.

How to drive free, compounding traffic to your online store — while everyone else is burning budget on ads.

At a glance: This guide covers the complete SEO playbook for Algerian online stores — bilingual keyword research, technical optimization, content strategy, local SEO, and a 30-day action plan you can start today. Whether you sell fashion, electronics, cosmetics, or home goods, the strategies here are built for the Algerian market.

What the auto-entrepreneur card actually is​

The auto-entrepreneur status lets a physical person run an individual economic activity without creating a company and without a commercial register (registre de commerce). It's managed by ANAE (Agence Nationale de l'Auto-Entrepreneur) through the portal anae.dz, where you register, declare revenue, and pay tax — all online.

The overwhelming majority of e-commerce in Algeria runs on cash on delivery. That makes sense: trust in online payment is still limited, and COD is what lets customers buy without friction. But that same advantage carries a hidden cost: a significant share of orders get rejected at delivery, and you absorb the round-trip shipping cost every time it happens.

"How much money do I need to start?" is the first question every Algerian who wants to sell online asks — and the honest answer is: far less than you think, but more than zero.

The exact figure depends on one decision: are you dropshipping (selling other people's stock) or selling your own product (buying inventory up front)? This guide breaks down both, in real Algerian dinars, with the full cost stack nobody warns you about — store, courier, confirmation, advertising, and the working-capital buffer that quietly kills under-funded stores.