In focus
The 8,000-taka trap vs. an honest 50,000-taka store
Here is the maths Uttara founders rarely run before buying cheap. The 8,000-taka "store" feels like a steal until you total the second year: you pay again to a new developer to rebuild on a real theme (15,000-25,000), you lose a month of sales while the broken checkout sits dead during, say, an Eid campaign, and you eat the bKash payments that quietly went to someone else's number during the handover gap. The genuinely cheap option, measured over twelve months, is the one that does not break. That is what 50,000 BDT is for — not a fancier store, a store that survives.
Where the 50,000 BDT actually goes: a WooCommerce build on a hardened WordPress install, a properly customised licensed theme, up to roughly 20 products loaded by me, a fast homepage, a category page, a product-page template, cart, checkout tuned for bKash/Nagad/COD, one courier API, per-zone delivery logic, a floating WhatsApp button that opens pre-filled with the product name, and a basic order-confirmation email. Hosting for year one on a Bangladesh-friendly shared plan is roughly 4,000-6,000 BDT, paid separately in your name.
What is honestly NOT in this tier, so there are no surprises: a custom-coded theme, multi-vendor logic, bilingual switching, abandoned-cart automation, advanced filters, or more than 20 SKUs at launch — those sit in the 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers, with fully custom from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% advance, 50% on launch, and you sign off on the design before I write the store code — that is the design-approval guarantee.
If the mockups don't match what we discussed, you get revisions, not excuses, and you do not pay the second half for a design you didn't approve.