In Gulshan, the same software brief gets quoted higher the moment the vendor sees your office address. I quote off your scope, not your signboard.
I am RH Fardin, a senior solo developer who scopes, prices, codes and ships custom software for Gulshan businesses myself. No glass-office sales team padding the invoice, no juniors learning on your build. You get a line-item BDT quote you can actually read, fixed once we sign. Internal tools from 50,000 BDT, full custom software from 3,00,000 BDT.
Floor 50,000 BDT. Tiers at 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT. Full custom from 3,00,000 BDT. 50% advance, 50% on launch, bKash, Nagad or bank. Design-approval guarantee. ~5 years, one senior operator.
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Send the exact same brief to five software vendors from a Gulshan corporate email and watch what happens. The number comes back high, round, and confident, 8,00,000, 12,00,000, sometimes a casual 'around 20 lakh, sir'. Send the identical brief from a Mirpur startup Gmail and the same vendors suddenly find a 3,00,000 BDT version. The work didn't change. Your address did.
In Gulshan you are read as a bank's card division, a buying house, a pharma distributor or a multinational's local arm, so the quote is written to survive the budget you're assumed to have, not to match the software you actually need. That is the single biggest reason custom software development price in Gulshan looks scary, and most of it is negotiating theatre, not engineering cost.
I price the opposite way. We get on a call, list the real modules, login, the three or four workflows that move money, the reports your MD wants on a phone, the one or two integrations like bKash disbursement or an SMS gateway, and I put a BDT figure against each line before you pay a single taka. You can see what the dashboard costs versus the reporting screen, keep what earns its place, and drop what doesn't. The price you sign is the price you pay.
If the budget is tight we cut scope, never quality. If the ambition is genuinely big, I tell you straight it's a custom build from 3,00,000 BDT, not a 50,000 BDT job dressed up.
Around five years building order systems, dealer-distribution tools, inventory, HR-payroll with bKash, clinic and booking software for Bangladeshi companies has taught me where the money actually goes in a build, and it is almost never the place a glossy quote points to. You are not paying for a sales director's commission, a project manager forwarding your WhatsApp messages, or office rent on Gulshan Avenue. With me the person who scopes your project is the person who writes the code and picks up the phone when something breaks. That is why custom software development Gulshan BD businesses get from me lands lower than the firm down the road, the same engineering, minus the overhead theatre.
Terms are identical for a 50,000 BDT tool and a 15,00,000 BDT platform, because fairness shouldn't depend on your postcode. 50% advance to start, 50% on launch, paid by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. Nothing gets coded until you approve the screens and the data flow, that's the design-approval guarantee, in writing. On launch day the source code, the database and the server credentials are yours. Hire an in-house developer next year and hand it over with zero exit fee. You bought software, not a hostage.
Six things that separate a scope-priced build from the round-number quote a Gulshan address usually attracts. All standard, from the 50,000 BDT entry tool to the full custom platform.
Your quote is built from the modules you need, not from the assumption that a Gulshan office can absorb 20 lakh. The same brief costs the same whether you email from a tower or a home office.
Every module, integration and admin screen is a separate figure in taka. You see the dashboard cost next to the reporting cost and decide what stays, instead of approving one mystery total.
The number you sign is the number you pay. New features mid-build get their own quoted line, so there is no end-of-project 'oh, that was extra' invoice landing on your desk.
You are not funding a sales commission, a PM salary or Gulshan Avenue rent. The price is engineering time from one senior operator, which is why it sits below the glass-office quote.
Focused internal tools at 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT, full custom platforms from 3,00,000 BDT. You buy the tier that fits the problem, not the tier that fits your assumed budget.
On launch the full source code, database and server access are yours, in your company's name. No per-seat licence, no annual renewal, no maintenance retainer you never agreed to.
When a Gulshan vendor hands you a single number, the number is hiding the only thing that matters: scope. A 6,00,000 BDT quote and a 3,00,000 BDT quote for the 'same' software are usually pricing two completely different builds, one assumes four user roles, NBR-shaped VAT, a bKash integration and a mobile dashboard, the other quietly assumes one user and a web form. Or they are pricing the identical build and one vendor simply read your address as deep pockets.
You cannot tell which, because the quote refuses to itemise. So ask for it broken down: what does each user role cost, each integration, each report. A vendor confident in their price will itemise in minutes. A vendor whose number came from your signboard will get vague, talk about 'enterprise value', and steer you back to the round total. That reaction alone tells you which kind of quote you are holding.
Three things genuinely move custom software cost in Gulshan, and none of them is your office address. First, user roles, a single-user inventory tracker is a 50,000 BDT job, but the moment you add a salesperson role, a manager role with approval rules and an admin role with reports, each one needs its own permission logic, screens and tests, and you are at 1,50,000 BDT or more.
Second, integrations, wiring in bKash or Nagad disbursement, an SMS gateway, NBR VAT and Mushak, or an accounting export each adds real engineering. Third, how custom the workflow is, if your need maps onto a tested foundation like a POS, a bookings system or a basic CRM, you save lakhs, but a bespoke dealer-commission engine or a clinic's chamber-and-billing flow is coded from a blank file and starts at 3,00,000 BDT.
On the first call I tell you exactly which side of that line your project sits on, and I put the figure on each piece so you are paying for software, not for how prosperous your address looks on an envelope.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point — I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
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Straight answers on custom software development price in Gulshan, the questions owners and ops heads send me before they trust any number.
The smallest focused internal tool starts at 50,000 BDT. Most multi-role business software lands between 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT. A full custom platform, real database, admin panel, several user roles and integrations, starts at 3,00,000 BDT. The exact figure depends on how many user roles, which integrations (bKash, Nagad, SMS, NBR VAT, accounting) and how custom your workflow is, never on your office address. You get a line-item BDT quote after one scoping call, fixed once you sign.
Often because of the address, not the work. Vendors read a Gulshan corporate email as a bank, buying house or multinational arm and write a number to match the budget they assume you have. The same brief from a Mirpur startup gets a smaller quote for identical software. The cure is to demand an itemised breakdown, real engineering cost doesn't change with your postcode, only padded quotes do. I price off scope, so a Gulshan address gets the same figure a home office would.
Because there is no overhead riding on the invoice. A firm's quote pays for sales commissions, project-manager salaries and rent on Gulshan Avenue, easily 30 to 50 percent of the total. I work solo, so the price is engineering time from one senior developer who scopes, codes and ships the build himself. You also skip the classic firm pattern where the senior who pitched you in the glass room vanishes after the advance clears and juniors take over the actual build.
Fixed, once we've scoped it. 'Custom software' covers everything from a 50,000 BDT staff attendance tool to a 15,00,000 BDT distribution platform, so there is no single sticker price, but there is a clear ladder: 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT for tiered productised builds, and from 3,00,000 BDT for fully custom. After one call I quote your project line by line against that ladder, and the number is locked when you sign, no creeping totals.
50% advance to begin, 50% on launch. I accept bKash, Nagad and direct bank transfer, whatever is cleanest for your accounts team. For larger custom builds above 5,00,000 BDT we can split the second 50% across two milestones, usually beta delivery and final launch, so your cash flow isn't tied up in one lump while the build is still in progress.
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