What is Basher?
Basher is a government platform that offers a unique digital experience to explore the market, register your business and get approvals and business documents for doing business in simple steps, allowing investors to begin running their business immediately.
Tools offered by Basher
The platform provides a range of tools to help entrepreneurs and investors access economic information and thus start their businesses easily and conveniently. These tools include:
- Market Intelligence: Market Intelligence is a unique component, gathering UAE business environment data from multiple government and non-government sources blending consumer behaviour and economic trends to assist in improving your business idea and make well-informed decisions.
- Business Tools: Basher Business Tools provides detailed guidance on the procedures, costs and requirements for company’s formation through interactive tools. This will help you get acquainted with relevant information and make decisions.
- Business Resources: Basher is committed to support you in forming and running your business by providing the information necessary to funding and increasing productivity. It also provides business-related legislation and free templates to plan and organise your business resources.
Market Intelligence
The Market Intelligence section includes dashboards of data, including the following dashboards:
- Top business activities, which are analysed by legal type, business trend, rent indicator and business distribution.
- Economic indicators, which are analysed by gross domestic product, exports/imports, foreign investments, price index, mobile subscriptions and internet users.
- Global rankings, which are analysed according to ease of doing business and global innovation index.
- Demographics, which are analysed based on population estimate.
Business Tools
The Business Tools section includes the following tools:
- Business set up navigator – This is a tool which assists in setting up your business structure, estimates the different costs and guides about the setting up processes.
- One Search – This tool helps you with the information about the availability of business name, web domain, social media and trademark.
- Fund Explorer – You can use this tool to browse the funding options that your new or existing business can leverage.
- SME Assist – This tool has a set of questions which will guide you to the suitable SME support required for your business.
- Business fees calculator – This tool estimates the different costs of establishing your business.
- Business name enquiry – You can use this tool to browse the business names registered by investors in the UAE and decide your own unique name for your business.
- Business activity search – You can use this tool to browse the various business activities suitable for your business licence.
- Search domain availability – With this tool, you can check the availability of a desired domain name for your business.
Business Resources
Business Resources provide you with the UAE business setup information and business-related legislation in addition to free business templates to plan your business resources.
Business Resources can be classified into several categories, including physical, financial, intellectual and human resources.
- Business Setup in UAE: Here, you will find information about the processes and activities required to fulfil your business setup requirements and business environment.
- UAE Smart Legislations Regime – This contains business-related federal and local regulations and legislations that govern businesses, and its functions and operations.
- Business Templates: These business documents templates assist you to create a simple business idea, write a plan, and grow a thriving and successful business.
Useful links:
- FAQs – Basher website
Updated on:
24 Apr 2026
