How a custom software quote is actually built in Bogura
"Software banate koto taka?" has no honest one-line answer — the price is set by your workflow, not by a rate card.
Almost every Bogura owner who asks me about custom software opens the same way: "software banate koto taka, vai?" — and they expect a number back in the next message, the way a print shop near Satmatha quotes a banner. Here is the uncomfortable truth about pricing custom software: a developer who gives you a firm figure before he understands your operation is not pricing your software — he is pricing his own fear of losing the chat.
Custom software is not a product on a shelf; it is a thing built around how your specific business already runs. A cold storage tracking thousands of potato lots across owners, chambers, rent and release slips is a completely different build from a coaching centre tracking fees, batches and results, and both are different again from a seed trader whose whole business lives in advances, dahon and party dues. Same word, "software," three different prices — and none of them can be honest until someone has actually looked at your registers.
So what really sets the custom software development price in Bogura? Scope, and scope is made of specific things, not vibes. How many distinct user roles — does only you log in, or do a storekeeper, an accountant and a front-desk person each need their own screens and permissions? How many modules — just inventory, or inventory plus party ledgers plus rent calculation plus SMS alerts plus reporting? Which integrations — bKash or Nagad merchant payment, an SMS gateway for depositor alerts, accounting export, an Android app on top of the web admin?
How many branches or chambers, and how messy is the live data you are migrating off paper and Excel? Each of those is a real chunk of design, build and testing time. That is why I publish tiers instead of one flat lie: scoped, single-purpose tools and small web apps fit the 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers, while genuine custom software with its own database, admin panel, user roles and payment integration starts from 3,00,000 BDT.
There is a Bogura-specific reason the cheapest quote is the dangerous one, and it is worth naming plainly. This district has trade, industry and real money — cold storages by the dozen, the seed and agro trade, rice and food-processing mills, the light-engineering and machinery cluster Bogura is genuinely known for — but it has no real software house and no engineering university to keep good developers here. The strong young coders leave for Dhaka or abroad.
So the local choice has usually been a part-timer or a Facebook page who quotes 40,000 or 50,000 taka for a "custom" build, demos something that looks fine, takes your advance, and then disappears when a real cold-storage season with thousands of lots or a bKash flow that actually has to reconcile breaks the half-built thing. That 40,000-taka number was never the price of working software — it was the price of an unfinished object you then pay for a second time.
The 3,00,000 BDT floor for real custom software is not me being expensive; it is the honest cost of scoping your operation correctly, building the right thing, and still answering the phone a year later.
And when you hire me, the figure has no hidden layers, because there is no chain. The person who scopes the price is the person who designs the screens, writes the database and backend code, wires up the bKash or Nagad integration, deploys it, and picks up WhatsApp when your accountant says a screen is confusing.
One senior operator, around five years building custom software and web apps for Bangladeshi businesses — not a Dhaka firm where the senior who quoted is on the next sale by the time a junior opens your project, with an account manager's salary and a tower-office rent quietly baked into your invoice. That is why my custom software development price in Bogura sits below a capital firm for comparable work: you are funding one senior hand, not a building full of people who never touch your project.
The price is fixed in BDT after one scoping call, you approve the full design in Figma before I write a line of backend, it is always 50% advance and 50% on launch, and on launch day the source code, database and server access are yours.
See pricing in BDT