In focus
Before you hand anyone an advance for cheap software in Uttara, check these five things
Most Uttara owners get burned not because they wanted cheap, but because they had no way to tell a real budget developer from someone who would vanish. So here's the checklist I'd use myself. One: did they ask about your actual workflow before quoting, or did a price appear off a two-line WhatsApp message? Anyone who quotes custom software without understanding your process is guessing, and you'll pay for the wrong guess.
Two: is the scope written down - the exact screens and features - or is it a vague 'software banai dimu'? If 'done' isn't defined on paper, the bill will keep climbing. Three: do you get the source code and database on launch, in your name? If the answer is fuzzy, you're renting, not buying, and every future change is a hostage negotiation. Four: who actually writes the code - the person in front of you, or a junior you'll never meet after the advance clears?
Five: is payment staged - some now, the rest only when it's live and working - or are they asking for the full amount up front? A developer confident in finishing is happy to be paid 50% on launch.
That checklist is also exactly how I work, which is the honest reason I can keep custom software cheap in Uttara without shipping you a liability. There's no house behind me - no office lease, no sales team, no PM forwarding your requirement to a coder in another sector who half-understands it. You explain the problem to me, and I'm the one who designs the data model, writes the backend, builds the screens, tests the edge cases, and supports it after.
That structure removes the layers where most of the cost - and most of the miscommunication - actually lives. A focused tool with a tight scope sits at the 50,000 BDT tier; add user roles, reporting and integrations and you're at the 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers; a genuinely custom, multi-module system built from the ground up starts at 3,00,000 BDT.
Payment is always 50% advance, 50% on launch by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, so you never pay in full for something you haven't watched run. And if a 50,000 BDT website plus a tidy spreadsheet would beat a half-custom tool for your stage, I'll say so before you spend a taka.