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How to actually compare "custom software" quotes in Bangladesh
When founders in Bangladesh shortlist custom software companies, the quotes usually arrive with a single price and a vague feature list. One says 80,000 BDT, another says 4,50,000 BDT for what sounds like the same thing. The reason for the gap is not always quality. It is what is hidden. Cheap quotes typically reuse a generic CodeCanyon script, slap your logo on it, and disappear when something breaks.
Expensive agency quotes often bundle 30 percent overhead, a project manager who adds zero value, and a junior coder who has built two systems before yours. "Best" lives between these.
It means a senior who writes the scope in plain language, breaks the price into design, build, testing, and deployment, names the tech stack (Laravel or Node, MySQL or Postgres, React or vanilla), confirms what hosting will cost monthly, and tells you whether the figure includes Bangla support, bKash and Nagad gateways, SSL, and one or two rounds of post-launch fixes.
My pricing for custom business software starts at 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose tool (a simple POS, a basic CRM, a small admission system) and scales through 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers as modules, roles, reports, and integrations stack up. Genuinely custom multi-module software with role-based dashboards, complex permissions, API integrations and serious reporting starts at 3,00,000 BDT.
Every project is 50 percent advance, 50 percent on launch, and there is a written design-approval guarantee: I do not start coding until you sign off the screens and database structure, so you never pay for something that turned out to be the wrong thing. If a company in Bangladesh cannot explain their quote in this kind of detail, you are not buying "best". You are buying a question mark with an invoice attached.