In Gulshan, the same software brief gets a higher quote the moment a vendor sees your office address. I quote off your scope, not your signboard.
I am RH Fardin, a senior solo developer. I scope, price, code and ship custom software for Gulshan businesses myself. My custom software development price in Gulshan has no glass-office sales team padding the invoice and no juniors learning on your build. You get a line-item BDT quote you can actually read, fixed once we sign. Internal tools start from 50,000 BDT, and full custom software starts 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. About 5 years, one senior operator.
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Send the 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, or 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 did not change. Your address did. That is a big part of why the custom software development price in Gulshan looks so high.
In Gulshan, vendors read you as a bank's card division, a buying house, a pharma distributor or a multinational's local arm. So they write the quote to fit the budget they assume you have, not the software you actually need. That is the single biggest reason the price looks scary. Most of it is negotiating theatre, not engineering cost.
I price the opposite way. We get on a call and list the real modules. That means login, the three or four workflows that move money, and the reports your MD wants on a phone. It also means the one or two integrations, like bKash disbursement or an SMS gateway. I put a BDT figure against each line before you pay a single taka.
You can see what the dashboard costs next to the reporting screen. Keep what earns its place and drop what does not. The price you sign is the price you pay. If the budget is tight, we cut scope, never quality. If the plan is truly big, I tell you straight that it is a custom build from 3,00,000 BDT, not a 50,000 BDT job dressed up.
I have spent about five years building software for Bangladeshi companies. That includes order systems, dealer-distribution tools, inventory, HR-payroll with bKash, and clinic and booking software. It taught me where the money really goes in a build. It is almost never where a glossy quote points.
You are not paying for a sales director's commission or a project manager who forwards your WhatsApp messages. You are not paying office rent on Gulshan Avenue. With me, the person who scopes your project writes the code and picks up the phone when something breaks. That is why custom software development for Gulshan BD businesses costs less with me than with the firm down the road. You get the same engineering without the overhead theatre.
The terms are the same for a 50,000 BDT tool and a 15,00,000 BDT platform, because fairness should not depend on your postcode. You pay 50% in advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. Nothing gets coded until you approve the screens and the data flow. That is my design-approval guarantee, in writing.
On launch day, the source code, the database and the server credentials are yours. If you hire an in-house developer next year, you can hand it all over with no exit fee. You bought software, not a hostage.
Here are six things that separate a scope-priced build from the round-number quote a Gulshan address usually attracts. All of them are standard, from the 50,000 BDT entry tool to the full custom platform.
I build your quote from the modules you need. I do not assume 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 gets its own figure in taka. You see the dashboard cost next to the reporting cost and decide what stays. You never approve one mystery total.
The number you sign is the number you pay. New features in the middle of a build get their own quoted line. So no 'oh, that was extra' invoice lands on your desk at the end.
You are not funding a sales commission, a project manager's salary or Gulshan Avenue rent. The price is engineering time from one senior operator. That is why it sits below the glass-office quote.
Focused internal tools cost 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT. Full custom platforms start 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. There is no per-seat licence, no yearly renewal and no maintenance retainer you never agreed to.
When a Gulshan vendor hands you a single number, it hides the only thing that matters: scope. A 6,00,000 BDT quote and a 3,00,000 BDT quote for the 'same' software often price two very 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 both price the same build, and one vendor read your address as deep pockets.
You cannot tell which, because the quote will not itemise. So ask for a breakdown: what each user role, each integration and each report costs. A vendor who is confident in their price will itemise in minutes. A vendor whose number came from your signboard will get vague. They will talk about 'enterprise value' and steer you back to the round total. That reaction alone tells you what kind of quote you are holding.
Three things truly move custom software cost in Gulshan, and your office address is not one of them. First, user roles. A single-user inventory tracker is a 50,000 BDT job. Add a salesperson role, a manager role with approval rules and an admin role with reports, and each needs its own permission logic, screens and tests. Now you are at 1,50,000 BDT or more. Second, integrations. 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 fits a tested base like a POS, a bookings system or a basic CRM, you save lakhs. But a one-off dealer-commission engine or a clinic's chamber-and-billing flow gets coded from a blank file and starts at 3,00,000 BDT. On the first call, I tell you which side of that line your project sits on. I put a figure on each piece, so you pay for software, not for how rich your address looks on an envelope.
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Here are straight answers on custom software development price in Gulshan. These are 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, with a real database, admin panel, several user roles and integrations, starts at 3,00,000 BDT. The exact figure depends on user roles, integrations (bKash, Nagad, SMS, NBR VAT, accounting) and how custom your workflow is. It never depends on your office address. You get a line-item BDT quote after one scoping call, fixed once you sign.
Often it is the address, not the work. Vendors read a Gulshan corporate email as a bank, buying house or multinational arm. Then they 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 does not 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 no overhead rides on the invoice. A firm's quote pays for sales commissions, project manager salaries and rent on Gulshan Avenue. That can easily be 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. The senior who pitched you in the glass room vanishes after the advance clears, and juniors take over the real build.
Yes, it is fixed once we have 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. Tiered builds cost 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT, and fully custom work starts from 3,00,000 BDT. After one call, I quote your project line by line against that ladder. The number is locked when you sign, with no creeping totals.
You pay 50% in advance to begin and 50% on launch. I accept bKash, Nagad and direct bank transfer, whichever is cleanest for your accounts team. For larger custom builds above 5,00,000 BDT, we can split the second 50% across two milestones. These are usually beta delivery and final launch. That way your cash is not tied up in one lump while the build is still in progress.
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