How much does it cost to start dropshipping pet in Qatar?

The store is the cheap part and almost nobody budgets for the expensive part. A Shopify plan, a domain and a theme come to very little; the real cost is buying the first thousand visitors and discovering what fraction of them convert.

Where the money actually goes

Budget in three buckets rather than one: the shopfront, the traffic to test it, and the reserve for refunds and chargebacks on orders the supplier will not take back. The third bucket is the one that closes stores, because it is spent after the revenue is booked.

Dropshipping trades margin for not holding stock, and the trade only works while traffic is cheap. For a pet supplies store in Qatar, the answer turns on one thing in particular: Pet food is the most reliably repeated purchase in retail: the bag runs out on a known schedule.

What is different about Qatar

Small, wealthy and concentrated — a store can reach most of the addressable market without a large budget.

Card payment dominates and delivery distances are short.

What is different about a pet supplies store

The part nobody plans for is returns: if the supplier will not take one back, the store is the returns department.

Where a mobile app comes into it

This is the clearest case for an app of any category. TicApp built barcode reordering into Pets Lounge for exactly this.