The honest answer to "custom software development price chattogram" is: it depends on what you are building — but I will price it in plain numbers, not a vague "let's discuss budget."
I am RH Fardin — a senior solo developer who scopes, builds and ships custom software for Chattogram businesses myself. A small internal tool — an order tracker for a trading firm, a stock register for a shop off Reazuddin Bazar — starts at 50,000 BDT. A real custom system built from scratch — an ERP-style back office for a C&F operation, a multi-branch inventory platform, a booking system tied to bKash and Nagad — starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Either way you get a fixed scope, a fixed price, 50% advance and 50% on launch, and one person who answers when you message.
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When a Chattogram business owner asks me "custom software banate koto taka lagbe?", they have usually already had a bad experience with the question. Either a freelancer quoted 25,000 taka, built half a thing, and disappeared mid-project — or a Dhaka software house quoted seven lakh with a 40-page proposal and three roles of "project management" baked in before a line of code existed. Both leave the same impression: that software pricing is a black box and you are about to be either underbuilt or overcharged.
It is not a black box. Custom software has a sensible price range, and the only thing that moves you up or down it is how much your problem actually demands. My job on the first call is to tell you, in real numbers, where your problem sits — not to sell you the biggest version.
Here is the ladder I work from, and it is the same whether you are 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 a delivery tracker, a daily stock register, a quotation generator, 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, basic reports.
At 1,50,000 BDT you are into a proper multi-module internal app — inventory plus sales plus a reporting layer, the kind of thing a growing trading firm runs its day on. And genuinely custom software — built from a blank canvas, with its own database design, multiple user types, integrations and the workflow modelled exactly to how your business runs — starts from 3,00,000 BDT.
That top tier is where most people imagine "custom software" lives, but a lot of real Chattogram problems are solved well below it, and I will say so plainly.
What you are paying for at any tier is a senior person who owns the whole thing. There is no business-development guy who wins the work, no junior you never meet who actually writes the code, no project manager whose only output is a weekly status email. I run the discovery, write the spec, design the screens, build the back end and the database, test it, and hand it over — and I am the person on WhatsApp when your warehouse staff hit a bug at 9pm during stock-take.
With software especially, that single thread matters more than with a website. A misunderstood requirement does not just look wrong; it quietly produces wrong numbers for months. One senior operator 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 on "custom software" jobs below that, because anything cheaper is a freelancer's 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, and fully custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT. Always 50% advance and 50% on launch, paid by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and 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 the thing you approved is the thing you get.
Software pricing is not a dartboard. Six things move the number up or down — and knowing them lets you scope your own build before you ever pay an advance.
Price tracks how many distinct things the software has to do and how complex each is — not how many pages it has. A clean five-screen inventory tool can cost more than a twenty-screen brochure-style app, because 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" invoice halfway through. If the scope genuinely changes, we agree the new line item in writing before I build it — never after.
Wiring in bKash, Nagad or a card gateway adds real, billable work — sandbox testing, callbacks, reconciliation, failure handling. I price it as a clear line item so you see exactly what the payment layer adds, not a vague lump in the total.
Anything quoted below 50,000 for "custom software" is a freelancer's gamble, not a system. The floor exists because real software needs real database design, testing and handover — the corners a 20,000-taka quote silently cuts.
The person scoping your build is the person coding it and the person fixing the bug during stock-take. No spec lost in a salesman-to-junior handoff — which in software means wrong numbers, not just a wrong colour.
Your staff will run it on mid-range Androids over Chattogram 4G, sometimes with patchy port-area signal. I build for that reality, not for a demo on office fibre — slow, fragile software just gets abandoned for the old Excel file.
If you ask three people in Chattogram what your custom software should cost, you will get 25,000 taka, "let's discuss budget," and seven lakh — for what sounds like the same thing. That spread is not because software pricing is random; it is because the three people are selling three different things and only one of them is telling you the truth about it.
The 25,000-taka freelancer is quoting on the happy path: he is imagining the demo, not the edge cases — the offline order, the half-paid invoice, the staff member who enters a quantity as text, the bKash callback that never arrives. He builds until he hits one of those, then either disappears or asks for more money.
The seven-lakh software house is quoting on its own overhead: account managers, a project manager, a designer, a back-end team and a QA team, each adding a margin, most of whom never needed to be on a job this size. Neither number describes the actual work in your software. They describe the seller.
The honest number sits on a ladder you can reason about. Tell me what the software must do — and, just as important, what happens when something goes wrong inside it — and I can place it: 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose tool, 90,000 for one with logins and roles and a dashboard, 1,50,000 for a real multi-module internal app, or from 3,00,000 BDT for a fully custom system designed from scratch around how your firm actually runs.
I do that scoping conversation for free, before you owe me anything, and I will happily tell you your problem only needs the 50,000-taka tier when it does. The whole job is fixed-scope and fixed-price: you approve the written spec and the screen designs before I write any code, you pay 50% to start and 50% on launch by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and one senior person — not a team quietly protecting a margin — owns it from the first message to the bug fix six months later.
That is what custom software development in Chattogram should cost, and how the number should be arrived at.
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Straight answers to what Chattogram business owners actually ask me on the first WhatsApp message about software.
It depends on what the software has to do, but the numbers are concrete, not vague. A small single-purpose tool — a stock register, an order tracker, a quotation generator — starts at 50,000 BDT. Add logins, user roles and a dashboard and you are around 90,000 BDT. A proper multi-module internal app (inventory plus sales plus reporting) is about 1,50,000 BDT.
And fully custom software built from scratch — your own database design, multiple user types, integrations, workflow modelled exactly to your business — starts from 3,00,000 BDT. I will tell you on a free first call which tier your problem actually needs, and I will not push you up the ladder. Payment is always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
Because 25,000 taka does not buy software — it buys the happy-path demo and a gamble that nothing goes wrong. Real custom software needs proper database design, handling for the cases that break cheap builds (the half-paid invoice, the offline order, the failed bKash callback), real testing, and a handover your staff can actually use. That work has a floor, and mine is 50,000 BDT. The cheap quote usually ends one of two ways: the freelancer disappears mid-project, or he comes back asking for more once he hits the part he did not think about. You end up paying twice and starting over.
Yes — payment integration with bKash, Nagad or a card gateway is some of the most common work I do for Chattogram businesses, since so many of your customers pay mobile-first. I price it as a clear line item, not a vague lump in the total, because it is real billable work: sandbox testing, handling success and failure callbacks, reconciliation so your records match the gateway, and graceful behaviour when a payment times out on weak signal. You will see exactly what the payment layer adds to your number before you approve anything.
Because 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 inside it, and from that I lock a written scope and a fixed price. You approve both before paying the advance. If, mid-build, you decide you want something genuinely outside that scope, we agree the extra as a written line item before I build it — never a surprise invoice after. The fixed price holds for the scope you approved.
If a ready-made product genuinely fits how you work, buy it — I will tell you so for free rather than sell you a build you do not need. Custom makes sense when your process does not match the off-the-shelf assumptions: a C&F operation with its own document flow, a multi-branch shop with stock moving between locations, a trading firm whose pricing logic no generic POS handles. Off-the-shelf is cheaper to start but often costs you in monthly fees and in bending your business to fit the software. Custom costs more up front and then fits you exactly, with no recurring licence. On the first call I will say honestly which one your situation calls for.
For builds from 90,000 BDT I am glad to come to your office or warehouse anywhere in Agrabad, GEC, Khulshi, Nasirabad or the port area for the kickoff and the final sign-off — and for software, seeing how your staff actually work is worth a lot, because it shows me the real workflow rather than the tidy version described on a call. For everything in between, WhatsApp and Google Meet save us both a day in Chattogram traffic. You get one senior person on the project throughout, and my number from day one, so you are never chasing an agency front desk for an update.
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