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Why WooCommerce is the genuinely cheap way to sell online in Dhanmondi
Here is the thing most Dhanmondi shop owners don't get told when they ask for a cheap online store: WooCommerce is free. It's an open-source plugin that sits on top of WordPress, costs nothing to license, and is owned by nobody who can bill you monthly. Compare that to Shopify, where a Basic plan runs roughly 2,500-3,000 BDT every single month forever, charged in US dollars, plus extra on every transaction. Over three years that's a small motorbike's worth of recurring fees before you've sold a thing. For a Road 27 boutique or a Satmasjid Road electronics seller watching every taka, WooCommerce is the cheap choice — not because it's flimsy, but because the platform tax is zero.
So if the software is free, why does a proper WooCommerce build still cost 50,000 BDT? Because "free platform" and "free store" are two very different sentences. The real costs in a WooCommerce build are hosting, a handful of premium plugins done legally, the theme work, and the person wiring bKash, Nagad, COD and Pathao so they actually fire. That's where the cheap Dhanmondi quotes you're seeing — 12,000, 18,000 taka — quietly go wrong: they keep the price low by using nulled (pirated) premium plugins that stop updating, break on the next WordPress release, and sometimes ship with backdoors that leak your customer data. Cheap up front, expensive the day it dies mid-sale.
I work alone — I personally design, build and ship every store, and I'm in Dhanmondi often enough that we can sit down on Mirpur Road over coffee and map out how your customers actually buy. Around five years of doing only this has taught me where WooCommerce stores leak orders and which plugins are worth paying for versus the forty you don't need. "Cheap" on this page means lean and honest: the right plugins, clean code, hosting in your name, and nothing pirated that turns into a liability six months in.
If your budget is genuinely below 50,000 BDT today, I'll say so and tell you to keep selling on Facebook with a bKash number until you've saved up — that's sequencing, not a brush-off. When you're ready, the 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT tiers let you start small on WooCommerce and grow into a bigger build, or a fully custom one from 3,00,000 BDT, without ever rebuilding from zero or migrating off a platform you've outgrown.
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