In focus
The cheapest store is the one that stops you working for free
Run the real maths the way an Uttara seller should. Say you do 25 orders a day and each one costs you roughly twelve minutes of manual handling — replying with the price, confirming the order, copying the address into the courier panel, chasing the bKash screenshot. That is five hours a day spent doing work a store does for free. Five hours, every day, that you could spend sourcing product, shooting content, or running ads.
Against that, a one-time 50,000 BDT build is not an expense — it is the cheapest staff member you will ever hire, one that works every hour the metro is running and never asks for Eid bonus. The 8,000-taka template in the group does not touch any of this, because it was never built to; it was built to take your money and look like a screenshot.
Where the 50,000 BDT honestly goes for an Uttara store: a WooCommerce build on a hardened WordPress install, a properly licensed theme, up to roughly 20 products loaded by me, a fast homepage, a category page, a product-page template with the price-and-delivery total always visible, cart and checkout tuned for bKash, Nagad and COD, one courier API, per-zone delivery logic, a floating WhatsApp button that opens pre-filled with the product name, and order-confirmation by email and SMS.
Hosting for year one on a Bangladesh-friendly plan runs roughly 4,000 to 6,000 BDT, paid separately in your own name. What is honestly not in this tier, so nothing surprises you later: customer login accounts, abandoned-cart recovery, advanced filters, bilingual switching, multi-vendor, or more than 20 SKUs at launch — those live in the 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers, with fully custom from 3,00,000 BDT.
Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, and you approve the design before I write the store — if the mockups do not match what we agreed, you get revisions, not excuses.