The honest answer on custom software development price in Chattogram: it depends on what you build. But I price it in plain numbers, not a vague "let's discuss budget."
I am RH Fardin. I build custom software for Chattogram businesses myself. A small internal tool starts at 50,000 BDT. Examples: an order tracker for a trading firm, or a stock register for a shop off Reazuddin Bazar. A custom system built from scratch starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Think of an ERP-style back office for a C&F firm, a multi-branch inventory platform or a booking system tied to bKash and Nagad. You get a fixed scope and price, 50% advance and 50% on launch, and one person on WhatsApp.
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A Chattogram owner asks me, "custom software banate koto taka lagbe?" Usually they have already had a bad time with this question. That is why the custom software development price in Chattogram feels like a mystery. Maybe a freelancer quoted 25,000 taka, built half a thing and vanished mid-project. Or a Dhaka software house quoted seven lakh with a 40-page proposal and three "project management" roles baked in before any code existed.
Both leave the same feeling. Software pricing seems like a black box, and you will be either underbuilt or overcharged. It is not a black box. Custom software has a sensible price range. The only thing that moves you up or down is how much your problem really demands. My job on the first call is to tell you where your problem sits, in real numbers. It is not to sell you the biggest version.
Here is the ladder I use. It is the same for an importer in Agrabad, a multi-branch retailer near GEC or a workshop in the port area. A small, single-purpose tool starts at 50,000 BDT. Think of a delivery tracker, a daily stock register, a quote generator or a customer database that replaces a messy Excel file. The 90,000 BDT tier covers a tool with a few moving parts: user logins, roles, a small dashboard and basic reports.
At 1,50,000 BDT you get a proper multi-module internal app. That means inventory plus sales plus reports, the kind of thing a growing trading firm runs its day on. Truly custom software starts from 3,00,000 BDT. It is built from a blank canvas, with its own database design, several user types, integrations and a workflow modelled on how your business runs. Most people picture "custom software" at that top tier. But a lot of real Chattogram problems are solved well below it, and I will say so plainly.
At any tier, you pay for a senior person who owns the whole thing. No sales guy wins the work. No junior you never meet writes the code. No project manager sends a weekly status email as his only output. I run the discovery, write the spec, design the screens, build the back end and database, test it and hand it over. I am also the person on WhatsApp when your warehouse staff hit a bug at 9pm during stock-take.
With software, that single thread matters even more than with a website. A misunderstood requirement does not just look wrong. It quietly produces wrong numbers for months. One senior builder who heard the requirement firsthand is how you avoid that.
Pricing is fixed and honest. The floor is 50,000 BDT. I do not take "custom software" jobs below that, because anything cheaper is a half-finished gamble, not a system you can run a business on. Tiers run 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT for tools and internal apps. Fully custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT.
It is always 50% advance and 50% on launch, paid by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. You approve the full spec and screen designs before I write a single line of code. So the price you agree is the price you pay. And what you approved is what you get.
Software pricing is not a dartboard. Six things move the number up or down. Knowing them lets you scope your own build before you ever pay an advance.
Price follows how many separate jobs the software does and how complex each one is. It does not follow page count. A clean five-screen inventory tool can cost more than a twenty-screen brochure-style app. The logic underneath is the real work.
You get a written spec and a locked number before any advance. No "it grew bigger than expected" bill halfway through. If the scope truly changes, we agree the new line item in writing before I build it, never after.
Adding bKash, Nagad or a card gateway is real, billable work. It means sandbox testing, callbacks, matching records and handling failures. I price it as a clear line item, so you see exactly what the payment layer adds.
Anything quoted below 50,000 for "custom software" is a freelancer's gamble, not a system. Real software needs real database design, testing and handover. Those are the corners a 20,000-taka quote quietly cuts.
The person scoping your build also codes it and fixes the bug during stock-take. No spec gets lost between a salesman and a junior. In software, that means wrong numbers, not just a wrong color.
Your staff will use it on mid-range Androids over Chattogram 4G, sometimes with patchy port-area signal. I build for that, not for a demo on office fiber. Slow, fragile software just gets dropped for the old Excel file.
Ask three people in Chattogram what your custom software should cost. You will hear 25,000 taka, "let's discuss budget," and seven lakh, for what sounds like the same thing. That spread is not random. The three people are selling three different things, and only one is telling you the truth about it. Neither extreme describes your software. Each describes the seller.
The 25,000-taka freelancer quotes on the happy path. He pictures the demo, not the edge cases. Like the offline order, the half-paid invoice, a staff member typing a quantity as text, or a bKash callback that never arrives. He builds until he hits one of those. Then he vanishes or asks for more money. The seven-lakh software house quotes on its own overhead. Account managers, a project manager, a designer, a back-end team and a QA team each add a margin. Most are not needed here.
The honest number sits on a ladder you can reason about. Tell me what the software must do. Also tell me what should happen when something breaks. Then I can place it. 50,000 BDT buys a focused single-purpose tool. 90,000 adds logins, roles and a dashboard. 1,50,000 buys a real multi-module internal app. A fully custom system designed around how your firm runs starts from 3,00,000 BDT. I do that scoping talk for free, before you owe me anything. If you only need the 50,000-taka tier, I will say so.
The whole job is fixed-scope and fixed-price. You approve the written spec and screen designs before I write any code. You pay 50% to start and 50% on launch by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. One senior person owns it from the first message to the bug fix six months later. It is not a team quietly protecting a margin. That is what custom software development in Chattogram should cost, and how the number should be reached.
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It depends on what the software must do, but the numbers are concrete. A small single-purpose tool, like a stock register, order tracker or quote generator, starts at 50,000 BDT. Logins, user roles and a dashboard bring it to about 90,000 BDT. A proper multi-module app with inventory, sales and reports is about 1,50,000 BDT. Fully custom software built from scratch starts from 3,00,000 BDT. On a free first call I tell you which tier you need. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank.
Because 25,000 taka does not buy software. It buys a happy-path demo and a bet that nothing goes wrong. Real software needs proper database design and handling for the cases that break cheap builds. Think of the half-paid invoice, the offline order and the failed bKash callback. It also needs real testing and a handover your staff can use. That work has a floor, and mine is 50,000 BDT. The cheap freelancer usually vanishes mid-project or asks for more money later. You pay twice and start over.
Yes. Linking bKash, Nagad or a card gateway is some of the most common work I do for Chattogram businesses, since so many customers pay by phone first. I price it as a clear line item, because it is real billable work. It covers sandbox testing, success and failure callbacks, and matching your records to the gateway. It also covers what happens when a payment times out on weak signal. You see exactly what the payment layer adds before you approve anything.
I do the discovery and write the spec before I quote a final number. We talk through what the software must do, who uses it and what happens when things go wrong. From that I lock a written scope and a fixed price. You approve both before paying the advance. If you later want something truly outside that scope, we agree the extra as a written line item before I build it. You never get a surprise bill after. The fixed price holds for the scope you approved.
If a ready-made product truly fits how you work, buy it. I will say so for free, not sell you a build you do not need. Custom makes sense when your process breaks ready-made rules. Think of a C&F firm with its own document flow, a multi-branch shop moving stock between sites, or a trading firm whose pricing no generic POS handles. Ready-made is cheaper to start but adds monthly fees and bends your business. Custom costs more up front, then fits you exactly with no license fee.
It is all remote. We run the kickoff, the reviews and the final sign-off on Google Meet or WhatsApp. Same for a business in Agrabad, GEC, Khulshi, Nasirabad or the port area. For software, seeing how your staff really work is worth a lot. So I may ask for a screen share or a short phone video of the real workflow, not the tidy version. You get one senior person and my number from day one. You never chase an agency front desk for an update.
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