Here is the custom software development price in Chittagong that nobody gives you straight. It is in real BDT, before you even call.
Ask three places in Chattogram "software banate koto taka?" One gives a number on the spot. The next goes quiet. A third sends a "package" PDF next day. None is a real price, because nobody asked what you run. I do the opposite. My tiers are below in BDT, and you get one fixed quote after a single scoping call. The smallest tool is 50,000 BDT. Real custom software starts from 3,00,000 BDT. You pay 50% advance and 50% on launch, and you approve the design before any code.
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Almost every Chattogram owner first asks me "koto taka?" That is the right question. The problem is that people who answer it instantly are the ones to trust least. A real custom software development price in Chittagong depends on things nobody learns in a thirty second phone call. How many user roles do you need? Does it have to read your current godown register or accounts file? Will five people use it, or fifty?
Does it take bKash and Nagad, or just record cash? Does the owner need it on his phone at the port while staff use a desktop at Agrabad? Until somebody asks you those questions, any number is theatre. So I have put my tiers on this page in plain BDT. The honest part is the next sentence. The exact figure for your build gets fixed after one short call, not before.
Here are the floor and the tiers, in taka, with no asterisks. The smallest job I take is 50,000 BDT. That is a single focused tool with one or two user roles, doing one job well. My 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers cover larger tools and light web apps. Examples are a stock tracker for one or two godowns, an order or job status app, or a simple party ledger system.
Real custom software starts from 3,00,000 BDT and rises with scope. It has a real database, an admin panel, several user roles, BD payment and SMS links, and proper reports. You pay 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. You sign off the full design before I write any backend code. That rule keeps the price honest. You cannot get a shock bill for a build you already approved on screen.
It is worth saying plainly why a port city project lands where it does on that scale. So much of Chattogram's real business is the port. Think import and export, clearing and forwarding, indenting, and commodity and raw material trade off Khatunganj. Think distributors pushing landed goods up to Dhaka. Software that truly runs a firm like that is not a recoloured shop POS.
It means shipment and LC tracking and stock split by godown across warehouses. It means party ledgers with dues and ageing, delivery orders, and reports the owner opens on a mid-range Android. That is real engineering. So a true custom trade system lands at the 3,00,000 BDT end. It does not land at the 40,000 taka number a template seller near New Market will quote. The price is high where the work is real and low where the scope is small. I will tell you honestly which one you need.
Most fast quoters in Chittagong name a figure before they see the brief. I will not. If someone quotes custom software over the phone in one minute, one of two things is going on. They may be selling a template they already sold to ten other firms with the logo swapped. Or they are quoting low to win the signature and will claw it back through endless "change requests" in month three.
I would rather spend thirty to sixty minutes learning your business. Which spreadsheet lives with whom? Where does a buyer's status request get stuck today? Then I write you a one-page scope and quote one fixed BDT number against it. It is slower to a price, but the price is the price.
Six things decide your number. When anyone in Chattogram quotes you, ask which of these they have really priced. The gaps are where surprise bills hide.
A single-user tool is cheap. Say you need owner, manager, storekeeper and accountant, each with different screens and permissions. Then you are paying for a real permissions engine. That is engineering, and it pushes a build up a tier.
bKash Merchant, Nagad, SSLCommerz, an SMS gateway, or reading your Tally or accounts file each add setup, testing and edge cases. One integration and three integrations are very different prices. They should be listed one by one, never bundled into a vague "package".
Stock in one godown is simple. Stock across several warehouses with transfers is not. Add a branch at the port and an office at Agrabad that see different views, and you need more database design and testing. For a Chattogram trade firm that is a real cost, not an upsell.
Matching bKash payments to orders, ageing party dues, or multi-currency LC values takes days of careful database work alone. The harder your data is to model, the higher the floor of your quote. It also matters more that it is built right the first time.
The owner may need dues, stock and job status to load fast on a mid-range Android at the port. Staff may work on a desktop. That is two screens to design and test, not one. It is worth the cost here, but it is a cost, and an honest quote names it.
Thirty days of free bug fixes, team training and your source code belong in the quote. They should not be surprise add-ons after launch. Ask what is included before go-live and what is billed after. Then the number you sign is the number you pay.
Most Chattogram owners do not hesitate over the price itself. They hesitate over the 50% advance. You are asked to send a lakh or three by bKash or bank for software that does not exist yet. Many people in this market have been burned. A developer took the advance and went quiet, or delivered a template nothing like the deal. So the real question is not "is this the cheapest quote?" It is "what protects my advance?"
My answer is built into how I price. The advance does not buy a promise. It buys the design. Before any code, you approve every screen in Figma. If a flow does not match how your storekeeper or accountant works, we fix it on paper, before you pay more. The other 50% is due only on launch, against working software you can test on staging. The advance buys you something you can see, not faith.
When you compare quotes in Chittagong, read them line by line against the cost drivers above. The risky quotes are not the expensive ones. They are the cheap ones that stay silent. A 40,000 taka "custom business software" quote rarely lists user roles, payment links, godowns or who owns the source code. It is silent because it is a template. Every real need your trade workflow hits later becomes a paid change request. Soon the cheap quote costs more than the honest one.
A real quote names a scope and a fixed BDT figure tied to it. The smallest tool starts at 50,000 BDT, and larger tools sit at the 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers. Real custom software with a database, roles and integrations starts from 3,00,000 BDT. My number after one call is the number on the contract. You sign off the design before code, you own the source code, and no forced retainer waits after launch. That is the price you really pay.
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Here are real numbers in BDT. The smallest scoped tool is 50,000 BDT. Larger tools and light web apps fit my 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers. Real custom software starts from 3,00,000 BDT and rises with scope. That means a real database, admin panel, several user roles and BD payment links. The exact figure depends on user roles, integrations like bKash, Nagad, SMS or accounts, godowns or branches, and any Android view. I fix one price after a single scoping call, never a guess over the phone.
Because it is almost never the same product. A 40,000 taka "custom" quote in Chattogram is usually a stock or POS template with your logo and two renamed fields. It has no real model of shipments, LCs, godown stock or party dues. Once your trade workflow hits it, you pay for endless "change requests". Then the cheap quote becomes the expensive one. Real custom software is designed around your business from a blank scope. If a template truly fits, I will tell you to buy it.
It is a fair worry in a market where people have been burned. The advance buys the design, not a promise. Before any backend code, you approve every screen in Figma and fix any flow on paper first. The other 50% is due only on launch, against working software you test on staging. We sign a proper milestone contract. You can see my work at rhfardin.com and check my Google profile. Above 3,00,000 BDT, we can split the advance across design, first module and launch.
Fixed price, every time. I quote one BDT number tied to a written one-page scope. You pay 50% advance and 50% on launch. Hourly billing creates a bad incentive, because slower work means a bigger bill. It also leaves you unable to budget. A fixed price means I want to scope properly and ship on time. You know the total before you send the advance.
The build fee does not include hosting and domain. Those are recurring costs paid to third parties. I will suggest the right size for your software's load and set it up. You pay the provider directly, usually a few thousand BDT a month for a small to mid trade system. A separate Android app is its own scope and its own line on the quote. It is not assumed in the web figure. Everything is listed before you sign, so nothing on the bill is a surprise.
We pause, and I quote the new feature as a separate fixed price in BDT. You approve it, and we carry on. Nothing goes on your bill without your sign-off. This is the clean way to handle changes. If someone in Chittagong lets you keep piling on features without a written change quote, expect a shock bill at the end. Your original number stays the same unless you choose to grow it.
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