A custom software development expert in Chittagong is not who you hire to build an app. It is who you hire to stop running your business on a spreadsheet that breaks every month-end.
I am RH Fardin — a senior solo operator who builds custom software for Chattogram businesses that have outgrown Excel, WhatsApp groups and a register book. C&F and freight forwarders tracking shipments by hand, importers off Agrabad reconciling LCs in spreadsheets, GEC retailers losing stock counts, clinics and trading houses where one person holds the whole system in their head. I scope, design, build and ship that software myself — no agency, no junior — starting at 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch, with the full plan and screens approved before I write a line of code.
Senior solo operator, ~5 years building software and systems for BD businesses. Design-approval guarantee. Direct on WhatsApp — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
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Most Chattogram owners who message me about custom software did not wake up wanting software. They woke up because something broke. A C&F firm near the port lost a container's paperwork trail across four WhatsApp groups and an Excel file three people were editing at once. An importer off Agrabad spent two days reconciling an LC because the figures lived in one accountant's head and a workbook only she understood. A GEC retailer found the shop's stock count and the actual shelf had quietly disagreed for a month.
That is the real starting point. You do not need 'an app' — you need the daily mess to stop costing you money and sleep. Custom software development in Chittagong, done right, begins with me sitting with how your business actually runs, not with a feature list.
Here is what makes the Chattogram brief its own animal. The work in this city is overwhelmingly trade and logistics — import, export, freight forwarding, C&F, indenting, bonded warehousing, commodity supply, light manufacturing feeding the port. The processes are real, specific and rarely fit any ready-made foreign SaaS. Your shipment workflow, your LC and duty steps, the way your delivery men confirm a drop on a cheap Android over patchy 4G near the port gate — none of that comes in a box you buy from abroad.
And the off-the-shelf BD products are usually generic accounting or POS tools that force you to bend your business to their forms. Custom means the software bends to you: built around your stages, your terms, your bKash and Nagad reconciliation, the report your owner actually reads on Friday.
When you hire me, you are not hiring an agency where a salesman wins the work and a junior you never meet writes the code. I am the discovery, the workflow mapping, the database design, the screens in Figma, the backend, the front-end, the testing, and the person who picks up on WhatsApp when a delivery man says the confirm button is not working at 8pm. One senior operator, around five years building software and systems for Bangladeshi businesses, one thread for the whole project.
That single point of accountability matters more in software than in a website — because the person who wrote a billing rule is the only one who can fix it fast when it edge-cases on a real invoice, and with me that person answers the phone.
Pricing is honest and fixed up front, and it is the same whether your letterhead says Chattogram or Chittagong. 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose tool — one workflow done properly, like an inventory tracker or a job-and-quotation system. 90,000 BDT for a multi-module internal system with users, roles and reports. 1,50,000 BDT for a larger build tying several workflows together with dashboards and bKash or Nagad reconciliation. From 3,00,000 BDT for fully custom platforms designed from a blank canvas.
Always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer — and you approve the full plan and the screens before I write a single line of code. No vague 'we will figure it out as we build' that ends in a doubled invoice.
Six things a Chattogram business needs from custom software — and all six are how I work from the 50,000 BDT tier, not features dangled to push you into a bigger contract.
I map how your firm actually moves a shipment, an order or an invoice before I design a single screen. The software fits your steps — you never rebuild your business around someone else's software.
Your staff and delivery men use low-end phones on patchy 4G near the port, not office fibre. Screens are built to stay fast and usable there, so the system gets used instead of abandoned.
The person who scopes your workflow is the same person who writes the billing logic and fixes the bug at month-end. No salesman-to-junior handoff that loses how your business truly works.
Payments and reconciliation built around how Chattogram actually collects money — mobile wallets, cash on delivery, bank transfer — so your numbers match reality instead of fighting a foreign template.
On handover you get the full source and your data, not a locked black box that holds you hostage on a monthly fee. The system is yours to keep, move or extend whenever you choose.
No code starts until you sign off the plan and screens in Figma. If it does not match how your business runs, we fix the design first — you never pay the second half for a build you did not approve.
Most Chattogram owners I talk to are stuck between three bad-feeling options. Off-the-shelf software is cheap to start but forces your trade or logistics business into someone else's forms, and the moment your real workflow does not fit — an LC stage, a part-shipment, a duty adjustment, a bKash reconciliation — you are back to a spreadsheet bolted onto the side. A Dhaka software house will quote you several lakh and put a junior on the build, because they will not assign a senior to a Bangladesh-price job.
And the spreadsheet you are limping on works right up until the one person who understands it is on leave, or a formula silently breaks and you only notice when the stock count or the LC figure is wrong. None of these is obviously right, which is exactly why owners freeze and keep limping for another year.
Here is the honest decision rule I give people, even when it loses me the job. If a clean off-the-shelf tool genuinely fits your workflow, buy it — I will tell you so for free and not pretend you need custom.
You only need custom software when your process is the thing that makes you money and no boxed product respects it: a shipment-tracking flow built around your stages, an inventory and billing system that speaks your terms and reconciles your wallets, an internal tool that finally gets the business out of one person's head and the WhatsApp groups. That is the lane I work in.
One senior operator who has shipped this kind of system before, who maps your workflow before quoting, locks the price — from 50,000 BDT for a focused tool — and writes nothing until you approve the screens. You get software that fits, source code you own, and one person who answers when it matters. Custom software development in Chittagong should mean exactly that, not a black box and a junior you never meet.
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Straight answers to what Chattogram owners ask me on the first WhatsApp message about custom software.
It depends on the workflow, but here are real floors so you can plan. 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose tool — one workflow done properly, like an inventory tracker or a job-and-quotation system. 90,000 BDT for a multi-module internal system with users, roles and reports. 1,50,000 BDT for a larger build tying several workflows together with dashboards and bKash or Nagad reconciliation. Fully custom platforms start from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. I give a fixed quote after mapping your workflow, never a vague number that doubles mid-build.
If an off-the-shelf tool genuinely fits how you work, buy it — I will tell you that for free rather than sell you custom you do not need. The problem in Chattogram is that most boxed products are generic accounting or POS tools that do not respect a real trade or logistics workflow. The moment your LC stage, part-shipment, duty step or bKash reconciliation does not fit their forms, you bolt a spreadsheet back on and you are stuck again. Custom is worth it when your process is what makes you money and no product respects it — then bending the software to you, not you to it, pays for itself.
You can — but for a Chattogram business it is usually overpriced for the scope you need, and a Dhaka house will not put a senior on a Bangladesh-price job. They sell you a senior at the pitch and assign a junior to deliver, so the person who finally understands your shipment workflow is gone by the time a billing rule edge-cases. With me you get one accountable senior on the scope, the screens and the code, my WhatsApp number from day one, and no agency overhead loaded into your invoice. In software that single point of accountability is the whole value.
Yes — that is a design constraint from the start, not an afterthought. Your staff, your shop counter and your delivery men around the port and GEC are on low-end Androids and patchy 4G, not office fibre. I build the screens to stay fast and usable on exactly those conditions, because software your team finds slow or fiddly simply gets abandoned and you are back to the register book. The whole point is a system that actually gets used every day, not a demo that only runs well in your office.
You own it. On handover you get the full source code and all your data — no locked black box, no mandatory monthly fee to keep your own system running. I am not in the business of holding a Chattogram firm hostage on a retainer for software you already paid to build. If you want me on call for changes and new modules later, that is an option you choose, never a trap baked into the contract. The system is yours to keep, move or extend whenever you like.
Yes, and for most Chattogram businesses I recommend it. The software is built around how you actually collect money — bKash, Nagad, cash on delivery, bank transfer — with reconciliation so your reported numbers match what really came in, instead of fighting a foreign template that assumes card payments. Where you already run an accounting tool or another system, I can build the new software to export to it or connect via its API so you are not double-entering the same figures in two places.
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