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How to actually pick the best online store development company in BD
Every company in the country will call itself the best, so drop the word and test for what it's supposed to mean. Ask three things before you pay anyone. One: who actually builds my store, the person in front of me or a junior I'll never meet? Two: how exactly will bKash, Nagad and cash-on-delivery be set up, and can you show me an order going through? Three: when a payment fails or the store goes down after launch, who do I message and how fast do they answer?
If the replies are vague, 'our team handles all that', that's the handoff model, and it's why so many BD stores ship with broken checkouts and a vanishing developer. With me the answers are plain: I build it, I'll show you a test order completing, and you message me directly on WhatsApp when something needs fixing.
Then judge them on honest pricing instead of the lowest number. A 20,000-taka store is almost always a recycled theme with the payment gateway half-wired, and you pay for that later in lost orders. My builds run 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT depending on catalogue size, how custom the build is, and how much payment and delivery setup you need, with fully custom stores from 3,00,000 BDT.
Terms are 50% advance to start and 50% on launch, with the store approved before that final payment, so there's no surprise invoice halfway through. A store that takes payments cleanly, updates its own stock, survives an ad rush and is fixed by the one person you actually talk to, that's what 'best' means for online store development in Bangladesh, not a bigger logo on the homepage.