The custom software development price in Chittagong nobody gives you straight — here it is, in real BDT, before you even call.
Ask three places in Chattogram "software banate koto taka?" and you get a number on the spot from one, silence from the next, and a 24-hour "package" PDF from the third. None of those is a real price, because none of them asked what you are actually running. I do the opposite: tiers published below in BDT, then one fixed quote after a single scoping call. Smallest scoped tool 50,000 BDT, genuine custom software with a database and user roles from 3,00,000 BDT — and 50% advance, 50% on launch, design approved before any code.
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The first thing almost every Chattogram owner asks me is the right thing to ask: "koto taka?" The problem is that the people who answer it instantly are the ones you should trust least.
A real custom software price depends on a handful of things nobody can know from a thirty-second phone call — how many user roles you need, whether it has to read your existing godown register or accounts file, whether five people use it or fifty, whether it takes bKash and Nagad or just records cash, whether the owner needs it on his phone at the port while staff use it on a desktop at Agrabad. Until somebody asks you those, any number is theatre.
So on this page I have published the tiers in plain BDT, and the honest part is the sentence after them: the exact figure for your build gets fixed after one short call, not before.
Here is the floor and the tiers, in taka, no asterisks. The smallest engagement I take is 50,000 BDT — a single focused tool, one or two user roles, one job done well. My 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers cover larger scoped tools and lightweight web apps: a stock tracker for one or two godowns, an order or job-status app, a simple party-ledger system.
Genuine custom software — a real database, an admin panel, multiple user roles, BD payment and SMS integration, proper reporting — starts from 3,00,000 BDT and moves up with scope. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and you sign off the full design before I write a line of backend code. That last rule is what keeps the price honest: you cannot get a shock invoice for a build you already approved on screen.
Why a port-city brief sits where it does on that scale is worth saying plainly, because it explains your number. So much of Chattogram's real business is the port — import and export, clearing and forwarding, indenting, commodity and raw-material trade off Khatunganj, distribution pushing landed goods up to Dhaka. Software that genuinely runs a firm like that is not a recoloured shop POS; it is consignment and LC tracking, godown-wise stock across warehouses, party ledgers with dues and ageing, delivery orders, reports the owner opens on a mid-range Android.
That is real engineering, which is why a true custom trade system lands at the 3,00,000 BDT end and not at the 40,000-taka number a template-seller near the New Market end will quote you. The price is high where the work is real and low where the scope is genuinely small — and I will tell you honestly which one you need.
What I will not do — and what most of the fast-quoters in Chittagong do — is name a figure before I have seen the brief. If someone gives you a custom software price over the phone in one minute, one of two things is happening: they are selling you a template they have already sold to ten other firms with the logo swapped, or they are low-balling to win the signature and will claw it back through endless "change requests" in month three.
I would rather spend thirty to sixty minutes understanding which spreadsheet lives with whom and where a buyer's status request currently gets stuck, write you a one-page scope, and quote one fixed BDT number against it. Slower to a price, but the price is the price.
Six things that decide your number. When anyone in Chattogram quotes you, ask which of these they have actually priced — the gaps are where the surprise bills hide.
A single-user tool is cheap. The moment you need owner, manager, storekeeper and accountant with different screens and permissions, 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 existing Tally or accounts file — each one adds setup, testing and edge-case handling. One integration and three integrations are very different prices, and they should be itemised, never bundled into a vague "package".
Stock in one godown is simple CRUD. Stock across several warehouses with transfers, plus a branch at the port and an office at Agrabad seeing different views, means more database design and more testing — a genuine cost driver for a Chattogram trade firm, not an upsell.
Reconciling bKash transactions against orders, ageing party dues, or multi-currency LC values is days of careful database work on its own. The harder your data is to model correctly, the higher the floor of your quote — and the more it matters that it is built right the first time.
If the owner needs dues, stock and job status to load fast on a mid-range Android at the port while staff work on a desktop, that is two interfaces 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, your team trained, source code handed over — these belong in the quote, not as surprise add-ons after launch. Ask exactly what is included before go-live and what is billed after, so the number you sign is the number you pay.
The honest reason most Chattogram owners hesitate over a custom software price is not the figure itself — it is the 50% advance. You are being asked to send a lakh or three by bKash or bank transfer to someone for software that does not exist yet, in a market where plenty of people have been burned by a developer who took the advance and went quiet, or delivered a template nothing like what was agreed.
So the question that actually matters 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 — and if a flow does not match how your storekeeper or accountant really works, we fix it on paper, not after you have paid. The remaining 50% is only due on launch, against working software you can test on staging.
The advance buys you a deliverable you can see, not faith.
When you compare custom software quotes in Chittagong, read them line by line against the cost drivers above, because the dangerous ones are not the expensive quotes — they are the cheap ones that are silent.
A 40,000-taka "custom business software" quote almost never lists how many user roles, which payment integration, how many godowns, or what happens to your source code; it is silent because it is a template, and every real requirement your trade workflow hits later becomes a paid change request until the cheap quote quietly costs more than the honest one.
A real quote names a scope and a fixed BDT figure tied to it: smallest scoped tool from 50,000 BDT, larger tools at the 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers, genuine custom software with database, roles and integrations from 3,00,000 BDT. The number I give you after one scoping call is the number on the contract, the design is signed off before code, the source code is yours on handover, and there is no forced maintenance retainer waiting on the other side.
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Real numbers, in BDT: the smallest scoped tool is 50,000 BDT, larger scoped tools and lightweight web apps fit my 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers, and genuine custom software — a real database, admin panel, multiple user roles and BD payment integration — starts from 3,00,000 BDT and rises with scope. The exact figure depends on how many user roles, which integrations (bKash, Nagad, SMS, accounts), how many godowns or branches, and whether you also need an Android view. I fix one price after a single scoping call, never a guess over the phone before I understand your operation.
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 dropped in and two fields renamed — no real model of consignments, LCs, godown-wise stock or party dues. The moment your actual trade workflow hits it, you pay for "change requests" that never end, and the cheap quote quietly becomes the expensive one. Real custom software is designed around your operation from a blank scope and built by the senior who scoped it. If a template genuinely fits, I will tell you so and you should buy the cheap one — but for a port-city trade firm it almost never does.
Fair concern in a market where people have been burned. The advance does not buy a promise — it buys the design. Before I write any backend code, you approve every screen in Figma, so you can see exactly what your money is building and fix any flow on paper first. The remaining 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, and for larger projects above 3,00,000 BDT we can split the advance across milestones — design approved, first module ready, launch. bKash, Nagad or bank transfer all accepted.
Fixed price, every time. I quote one BDT number tied to a written one-page scope; you pay 50% advance, 50% on launch. Hourly billing creates a bad incentive — slower work means a bigger invoice — and it leaves you unable to budget. Fixed price means I am motivated to scope properly and ship on time, and you know the total before you send the advance.
The development fee does not include hosting and domain, because those are recurring costs paid to third parties — I will recommend the right size for your software's load, set it up, and you pay the provider directly (typically 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, not assumed in the web figure. Everything is itemised before you sign, so nothing on the invoice is a surprise.
We pause, I quote the new feature as a separate fixed-price item in BDT, you approve it, we resume. Nothing gets added to your invoice without your sign-off. This is the clean way to handle scope changes — anyone in Chittagong who lets you keep piling on features without a written change quote is setting up a shock bill at the end. Your original number stays your original number unless you choose to expand it.
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