Custom software development in Chittagong for the firm that has outgrown its off-the-shelf POS, its rented ERP and its spreadsheet stack — and needs software shaped to how it actually trades.
Most Chattogram businesses that come to me already bought software once. A hosted POS, a Tally licence, some Indian or Dhaka SaaS billed per user per month — and it half-fits, so the staff keep a parallel Excel file to cover what the tool can't do. I'm RH Fardin, a senior solo developer who builds custom software for port-city firms: importers and C&F agents near Agrabad, traders off Khatunganj, diagnostic centres and clinics around GEC, transport and logistics fleets, distributors moving landed stock upcountry. One person scopes it, designs it, builds it and ships it. From 50,000 BDT, design approved before any code, 50% advance and 50% on launch, full source-code handover.
One senior operator | ~5 years building for BD businesses | bKash & Nagad ready | 50% advance, 50% on launch | You own the code, no monthly per-user fee
+Trusted by 50+ founders, agencies and teams across Bangladesh and beyond.
Trusted by teams I've built websites for
There is a specific tipping point I see again and again in Chattogram. A firm starts with a ready-made tool — a hosted POS for the showroom, a generic inventory app, a foreign SaaS that bills in dollars per user per month. For a while it's fine.
Then the business grows into its own shape: a second godown the tool can't model, a commission structure no template has a field for, a buyer abroad who wants a status report the software simply cannot produce, a per-user bill that quietly crept past what a real system would have cost to own outright. At that point the staff stop trusting the tool and start keeping a side spreadsheet 'just to be safe' — and now you're paying a monthly subscription AND running on Excel.
That is when custom software development in Chittagong stops being a luxury and becomes the cheaper decision. The right question isn't 'app banabo na ready kinbo?' in the abstract — it's whether your operation has become specific enough that no template will ever fit it again.
I'm RH Fardin — a senior solo developer, around five years building production software and web apps for Bangladeshi businesses. I am genuinely useful on the buy-versus-build question because I have no incentive to lie about it. An agency selling you a custom build wants you to build; a SaaS reseller wants you to subscribe forever. I'll tell you plainly: if a 2,000-taka-a-month off-the-shelf tool actually covers your workflow, buy it and don't call me.
I earn my fee only when your operation has outgrown the shelf — when the cost of forcing your real process into someone else's product (in workarounds, in side-files, in per-user fees, in the report you can never pull) has grown bigger than the cost of owning software built around how you work.
What makes a Chattogram brief its own animal is the trade underneath it. This is a port city — the work is import and export, clearing and forwarding, indenting, commodity trade off Khatunganj, distribution of landed goods, plus the firms that serve them: diagnostic centres and clinics, transport and logistics fleets, real-estate and developer offices, manufacturing tied into the EPZ supply chain.
Generic software is built for a Dhaka retail shop or a Western small business, so it has no honest place for an LC reference, a container number, a C&F job stage, a godown-to-godown transfer, a party ledger with dues and ageing, or a delivery order that needs three sign-offs.
Custom software development in Chittagong, done properly, puts those things at the centre instead of bolting them on as awkward 'custom fields' — and it loads fast on a mid-range Android, because you're reading it at the port, not at a desk.
Here's how I'm priced and where I genuinely fit, because 'custom' should mean a number you can plan around. Pricing is in BDT and fixed after one scoping call — never a guess over the phone. Real custom software with a database, admin panel, user roles and a payment or SMS integration starts at 3,00,000 BDT.
Smaller scoped tools and lighter web apps — a single godown stock tracker, a job-status board for your C&F desk, a booking system for a diagnostic centre, an admin panel layered on data you already have — often fit my 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers, and the smallest engagement is 50,000 BDT. Always 50% advance and 50% on launch via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and you approve the full design before I write a line of code — that's the design-approval guarantee.
If you genuinely need a 300-screen ERP for a 5,000-worker EPZ factory, I'll tell you honestly to hire a larger team rather than take a job I can't ship well solo.
Six concrete differences between software built around your port-city operation and the off-the-shelf tool you're currently fighting with.
Pay once and the software is yours — no per-user, per-month bill in dollars that grows every time you hire. For a firm of any size in Chattogram, owning the build beats renting a tool that half-fits within a year or two.
LC and consignment references, container and shipment status, C&F job stages, godown-to-godown transfers, party ledgers with dues and ageing — first-class parts of the system, not 'custom fields' jammed into a template.
I tell you when a cheap off-the-shelf tool would genuinely serve you better, and you should buy it. I only build when your operation has outgrown every template — so the fee earns its keep.
bKash Merchant, Nagad, SSLCommerz and AamarPay integrated properly — OTP flows, IPN callbacks, refunds and reconciliation handled before, not learned on your project or hacked into a redirect that breaks on Fridays.
You check stock, dues and job status from your phone between Agrabad and the jetty. Dashboards and tables are built thumb-first for a mid-range Android on patchy 4G, not shrunk down from a desktop view.
The person who scopes the job writes the code and answers your WhatsApp after launch. Your requirements never get translated through a salesman and a junior until nobody remembers what you asked for.
Before you spend a taka on a custom build, run this test — it's the same one I run with every Chattogram owner on the first call. First, list everything your current tool can't do that forces a side-spreadsheet or a manual workaround; if that list is short, you don't need custom software, you need to use the tool you have better.
Second, add up what you actually pay to rent your current software per year — the per-user SaaS fee, the annual licence, the cost of the one staffer who exists mainly to reconcile the systems by hand; per-user subscriptions billed in dollars add up faster than owners expect.
Third, ask the question that decides it: is your operation specific enough that no template will ever fit — multiple godowns, a commission or LC structure nobody else has, reports a foreign buyer demands — or is it standard enough that you're just buying the wrong-sized off-the-shelf product? If the workaround list is long, the yearly rent is real money, and your process is genuinely yours, build. If not, buy the ready-made tool and keep your cash.
When the answer is build, here's exactly how I work so the number is something you can plan around. I don't quote a custom job in 24 hours the way most shops do — I want 30 to 60 minutes where you walk me through how the work happens now: which file lives with whom, which printed register your storekeeper updates by hand, where a buyer's status request currently gets stuck, what breaks when one person is on leave.
From that I write a one-page scope you can take to any developer in Chittagong for a comparable quote; you sign it and it becomes the contract. Then you approve the full design in Figma before I write backend code, the price is fixed in BDT — custom software from 3,00,000 BDT, smaller scoped tools from the 50,000 BDT floor, 50% advance and 50% on launch via bKash, Nagad or bank.
On launch you get the full source code on your own GitHub, the database, server access and a plain Bangla-English handover, plus free fixes for genuine bugs after go-live. Custom software development in Chittagong bd done right isn't the flashiest build — it's the one your team still opens every morning a year later, because it was shaped to how they actually work instead of how a template assumed they would.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point — I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
Every project starts at ৳50,000
A sharp, credible site that makes the right first impression and brings enquiries.
Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra
A full, professional site that ranks and converts for a growing business.
Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra
An online store built to sell and scale.
Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra
Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or send an email.
Straight answers to what Chattogram business owners ask on the first WhatsApp message about custom software.
Real custom software with a database, admin panel, user roles and at least one payment integration starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Smaller scoped tools — a single godown stock tracker, a C&F job-status board, a diagnostic-centre booking system, an admin panel on data you already have — often fit my 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers, and the smallest engagement is 50,000 BDT. The exact figure depends on how many user roles, which integrations (bKash, Nagad, SMS, accounting), how many godowns or branches, and whether you also need an Android app. I give one fixed price in BDT after a single scoping call — never a guess before I understand your operation.
Maybe not, and I'll tell you straight. If your hosted POS, Tally licence or foreign SaaS genuinely covers your workflow and the side-spreadsheets are minimal, keep it — building custom would waste your money. You should switch to custom software when the tool only half-fits: when staff keep a parallel Excel file to cover what it can't do, when the per-user monthly fee in dollars has crept past what owning a system would cost, or when there's a report a buyer needs that the tool simply cannot produce. The deciding factor is whether your operation has become too specific for any template — which, for most established Chittagong trade firms, it eventually does.
Yes — this is core to what I do for Chattogram. I can build consignment and shipment tracking, LC and party ledgers with dues and ageing, multi-godown stock with transfers, delivery orders with approval flows, and distributor order management for goods landed at Chittagong and pushed upcountry. The first step is a call where you walk me through your current spreadsheets, registers and WhatsApp-group workarounds, so the system maps your real process near Agrabad or Khatunganj instead of a generic template's idea of one.
No. With custom software you pay once to own it — there's no per-user, per-month subscription. The only running costs are your own hosting and domain (a few thousand taka a year, on your account, in your name), and an optional maintenance retainer if you want me on call for future changes. After launch you choose: a flat monthly retainer, pay-per-change-request, or hand it to your own developer with full documentation. No forced lock-in, and nothing held hostage.
A small scoped tool is two to four weeks from advance to launch. A mid-sized app with a few roles and integrations is six to ten weeks. Full custom software with multiple modules and integrations is three to five months. I build in short cycles so you see working screens regularly — no months-long black box. For kickoff and final sign-off on larger projects I'll come to your office anywhere in Agrabad, GEC, Khulshi, Khatunganj or the port area; in between, WhatsApp and Google Meet save us both a day lost to Chattogram traffic.
You own everything, 100%. On launch day you get the full source code pushed to your own GitHub or Bitbucket, the database backup, server access credentials, deployment instructions and a short technical manual — plus free fixes for genuine bugs after go-live and plain Bangla-English training videos your staff can rewatch. I don't lock you into a forced maintenance contract. If you later hire an in-house developer or move to another team, they have everything on day one and nothing is held back.
Grab a free 15-minute call and I'll show you exactly what your new website should do — and what it'll cost in BDT. No pitch, no pressure.
Grab a free 15-minute call, or send a message and I'll reply with the clearest next step.
Book a free call
