Rajshahi has plenty of coders and almost no real software company. So the search ends in the same trap: a student who vanishes, or a Dhaka firm that won't take a silk-city account seriously.
I am RH Fardin — a one-person software studio that scopes, designs, builds, ships and keeps answering, for Rajshahi businesses. The coaching centre off Shaheb Bazar running fees and results on paper, the diagnostic chain in Laxmipur drowning in appointment slips, the mango and agro exporter whose whole year is three months, the silk house near Sopura selling to people who never visit: you deal with me directly, on a signed scope, with a proper invoice you can put in your books and the source code yours on launch. From 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch.
Senior solo operator | ~5 years building for BD businesses | Signed scope + proper invoice | Source-code handover, no lock-in | bKash, Nagad or bank transfer
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Type 'custom software development company in Rajshahi' into Google and look at what actually comes back. A handful of listings, most of them either a freelancer with a logo or a Dhaka firm running a Rajshahi pin on a map. There is no dense local software industry here the way there is in Dhaka — Rajshahi produces excellent developers at RUET and the university, and then most of them leave for Dhaka or abroad within a year of graduating.
So the owner who wants 'a company' — a name to sign a contract with, raise an invoice against, hold responsible when a report comes out wrong — is choosing between two bad defaults: a talented local student who will be gone by month four, or a Dhaka software house that treats a Rajshahi account as a small out-of-town job to be handed to whichever junior is free. The instinct to want a real company is correct. The options the search gives you are the problem.
Here is the specific failure I keep cleaning up in this city, and it is not the same one Dhaka or Chittagong owners describe. In a port or capital market the complaint is usually a vendor who over-promised. In Rajshahi it is distance and disappearance. A coaching centre hires a bright RUET freelancer to build a student-and-fee system; version one half-works, then admission season collides with his exams or a Dhaka job offer lands, and he is gone with a database nobody else can read.
Or the centre goes the 'safe' route and hires a Dhaka company — and discovers that being 250km away means slow replies, a junior who has never seen how a Rajshahi coaching intake actually runs, and a quiet sense that your account is not worth a senior's afternoon.
What a genuine custom software development company in Rajshahi has to be, for a business like that, is whoever stays accountable and reachable from the scoping call to a year after launch — and treats your account as the real thing it is, not a rounding error.
When you hire me, the accountability does not depend on an office address. I am the scoping call, the one-page scope you sign, the screens in Figma, the database, the backend code, the bKash or Nagad integration, the SMS gateway, the deployment, and the person on WhatsApp when your accountant says the dues report does not tally.
One senior operator, roughly five years building custom software and web apps for Bangladeshi businesses, one thread from first message to handover — and no sense whatsoever that a Rajshahi project ranks below a Dhaka one, because every project I take is the only one I am building at that level.
You can see the work at rhfardin.com, check the Google profile, and we agree a written scope and a proper invoice before money moves — so 'can I trust someone who isn't a registered local company' becomes a question you answer by looking, not by office size.
Let me be honest about scope, because 'company' should not be read as 'will build anything.' My lane is small-to-mid custom software for Rajshahi businesses that need a clean admin panel, a few user roles, real reporting, and BD payment and SMS integration: coaching and college student-and-fee systems, diagnostic and clinic appointment and report systems, inventory and party ledgers for mills and silk traders, season-aware order and dispatch tracking for agro and mango exporters, HR and payroll for a few hundred staff.
Pricing is in BDT and fixed after one call: genuine custom software with a database, admin panel and user roles starts from 3,00,000 BDT; smaller scoped tools and web apps fit the 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers when the scope allows; the smallest engagement is 50,000 BDT. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer — and you approve the full design before a line of code.
If you need a 300-screen ERP for a 5,000-worker factory, I will tell you on the first call to hire a larger team.
Six things you get when the company you hire is one accountable senior who treats your Rajshahi account as real — not a sales desk that files it under out-of-town and forgets it.
The person who takes your brief and asks the awkward questions is the person who writes the code and answers your WhatsApp after launch. Your account never gets parked with the junior a Dhaka firm assigns to small out-of-town jobs.
You get a real itemised invoice against a signed scope — the document a college, NGO or registered firm in Rajshahi needs to clear a payment through its books or committee. No bKash advance with nothing on paper to show finance.
Student and batch management, attendance, fee dues with ageing, exam results and automatic SMS to parents. Shaped around how a Rajshahi coaching centre, college or institute actually runs an intake — not a generic 'school app' that fits no one.
For mango and agro firms whose year is three months long: order intake, advance and dues tracking, grading and lot records, godown stock and dispatch — built so the system carries the rush instead of a notebook and one WhatsApp group.
bKash Merchant, Nagad, SSLCommerz and AamarPay integration is normal scope — the OTP flows, IPN callbacks and reconciliation cases done on past work, not learned for the first time on your project.
On launch you receive the full source code on your own GitHub, the database, server access and documentation. Hire a local RUET developer to maintain it any year you like — nothing about your software is held hostage.
The honest worry behind 'is this a real company' in Rajshahi is rarely about VAT certificates — it is about recourse. If the developer is a student across town, you can at least knock on a door; if the firm is in Dhaka and goes quiet, what exactly do you do from 250km away? That fear is legitimate, and the answer is not a bigger signboard. It is structure you can hold in your hand.
Before any money moves we agree a one-page scope with deliverables and dates, and I raise a proper itemised invoice against it — the paper your college committee, NGO board or finance person actually needs to release a payment, not a screenshot of a bKash send. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, so you never pay the full amount for something half-built. And on launch the source code, the database and the server access land in your own accounts, not mine.
The distance stops mattering the moment the protection is written down, because none of it depends on you being able to physically reach me.
That is the whole reason I work this way, and the reason I will not quote a Rajshahi custom job in 24 hours the way many will. Before any number I want 30 to 60 minutes on a call where you walk me through how the work happens now — which register lives with whom, how the coaching centre actually records a fee payment, where a parent's result query gets stuck, what breaks when your office assistant is on leave, how the mango orders pile up in peak season.
From that I write the scope, you sign it, and that becomes the contract; new requirements mid-build are negotiated openly, never sprung as inflated 'change requests' at the end. Design is approved in Figma before backend code, and the price is fixed in BDT after that one call — custom software from 3,00,000 BDT, smaller tools from the 50,000 BDT floor.
On launch you get the full source code, database and server access plus 30 days of free fixes for genuine bugs and Bangla-English training videos your staff can rewatch. If what you really want from a custom software development company in Rajshahi is software your team still uses a year later and a senior who still answers when your front desk has a question, the office being in another city does not matter. The accountability does — and it is on paper from day one.
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
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Straight answers to what Rajshahi business owners actually ask me on the first WhatsApp message about hiring a software company.
Genuine 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 coaching-centre fee tracker, a diagnostic appointment web app, a basic stock and ledger tool — sometimes fit my 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers, and the smallest engagement is 50,000 BDT. The exact number depends on how many user roles, which integrations (bKash, Nagad, SMS, accounting), how many branches or batches, and whether you also need an Android app. I quote one fixed price after a single scoping call — not a guess over the phone before I understand your operation, and never an advance taken before the scope is written down.
Practically I am a one-person software studio, and for the invoice question that is no obstacle. We sign a written scope and I raise a proper itemised invoice against it — the document your accounts office, committee or board needs to release a payment cleanly, with a transaction-reference field so it reconciles in your books. If your institution needs specific billing details on the invoice, tell me on the first call and I will format it to match what your finance person requires. The protection you actually want from a 'company' — a signed agreement, a real invoice and a named person responsible — you get here without the Dhaka-office overhead baked into the price.
Because cheap and finished are not the same thing, and distance is not the real risk — disappearance is. RUET genuinely produces strong developers, but most are new to scoping a live business, handling messy real data, integrating bKash properly and supporting software after launch — and many vanish mid-project when exams hit or a Dhaka job offer lands, leaving a half-built system and a database no one else can read.
I scope your operation from a blank page, build the right thing, hand over the full source code, and stay reachable a year later on a signed agreement. If a cheap local option genuinely fits your needs I will tell you so honestly — but for a coaching centre, diagnostic chain or exporter it rarely does, and the unfinished build usually gets paid for twice.
Yes — in an education city like Rajshahi this is some of the work I am best at. Student and batch management, attendance, fee collection with dues and ageing, exam and result entry with automatic SMS to parents, admission and online-form handling, and role-based logins for admin, teachers and front desk. The first step is a call where you walk me through how you record admissions, fees and results today — the registers, the spreadsheets, the WhatsApp groups — so the system maps your real intake instead of a generic 'school management' template. Built and tested so it holds up in the admission-season weeks when a broken form means lost students, not just a bug.
Yes, and for Rajshahi exporters this is exactly the kind of brief I scope carefully. Order intake with advance and dues tracking, buyer and party ledgers, grading and lot records, cold-storage or godown stock, and dispatch and delivery tracking — designed so the peak rush runs through one system your whole team can see, not a single overloaded WhatsApp group and a notebook only you can read. The software sits quiet most of the year and carries the load in season, which is why it pays for itself across one harvest. We scope it around how your specific crop and buyers actually move, including the advance-heavy payment pattern common in the mango trade.
You never have to come to Dhaka. Almost the whole project runs on WhatsApp and Google Meet — scoping, design sign-off, revisions, launch and after — and support after launch works the same way, with me reachable directly rather than through a ticket queue. For kickoff or final sign-off on a larger build I can arrange to come to your office in Rajshahi if you want it in person. Being in another city does not slow your replies down here, because there is no junior between us and no other project ahead of yours in a queue — one senior, one thread, and a signed scope plus source-code handover so the protection never depends on geography.
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