Searching for the custom software development price in Sylhet? Three firms have probably quoted you three wildly different numbers. None of them told you what is inside the number.
I am RH Fardin, a senior solo developer who scopes, designs, builds and launches custom software for Sylhet businesses. Here is the custom software development price in Sylhet in plain BDT. Small tools and light web apps start at 50,000 BDT and move through 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers. Real custom software with a database, admin panel and user roles starts from 3,00,000 BDT. 50% advance, 50% on launch. You approve the whole design before any code. No agency markup, and no quote that doubles for a brother in London.
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The fastest way to get burned is to ask the custom software development price in Sylhet before anyone writes down what the software must do. You will get an answer in five seconds, maybe 60,000 or 80,000. It will mean nothing. The firm does not yet know if you need one branch or six, one user role or five. It does not know if you need bKash or an owner-abroad dashboard.
Prices swing by a factor of ten, and not because developers lie about rates. "Custom software" covers everything from a one-screen stock tracker to a multi-branch system the owner runs from Birmingham. A number with no scope behind it is built to win the call. It is not built to hold true to launch.
Here is what really moves the custom software development price Sylhet businesses pay, in order. First, branches and roles. A single shop with one admin login is a different build from a restaurant group. There, each manager sees only his branch and the owner sees everything. Second, integrations: bKash Merchant, Nagad, SSLCommerz, an SMS gateway and accounting export. Each is real work. Each is where cheap quotes leave a gap they bill you for later.
Third, the data model. Live data for many users, kept properly apart, costs more to build right than a glorified spreadsheet. That spreadsheet breaks the day two people save at once. Fourth, the owner-abroad layer Sylhet needs: a live dashboard a non-resident owner can open on his phone. Fifth, whether you want an Android app on top of the web system. Tell me those five things and I can give you a real number. Tell me none of them, and any number you hear is fiction.
I price differently because I scope differently. Before I quote, I want a 30 to 60 minute call. For Sylhet I schedule it around the UK time difference, so the owner abroad is on it, not told later. You walk me through how the work happens now. Which branch records sales, and how? Where does money or stock go uncounted? What can the owner not see today? From that I write a one-page scope. You sign it, and it becomes the price and the contract.
New needs mid-build get agreed openly against that page. They do not show up as inflated "change requests" after the advance clears. That is the difference between a quote and a guess. It is also why my number is often lower than an agency padding for office rent. It is higher than the YouTube-trained junior who has not priced the parts he forgot to mention.
Let me be clear about who my pricing fits. My tiers suit small-to-mid custom software for Sylhet businesses. That means multi-branch sales and inventory for restaurant and retail groups, and property and NRB-lead systems for flat developers. It means booking and instalment tools for travel and Hajj agencies, and appointment and report systems for clinics. It also covers HR and payroll for a few hundred staff.
Real custom software with a database, admin panel and user roles starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Lighter tools and web apps fit the 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers. The smallest job I take is 50,000 BDT. It is always 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. Design is approved before code, and you get the full source code with no lock-in. Need a 300-screen ERP for a 5,000-worker factory? I will tell you honestly that you need a larger team, not me.
A price only means something when you can see inside it. Here are six things built into my BDT numbers that cheaper Sylhet quotes usually leave out, and bill for later.
The price is locked in BDT after one scoping call and a signed one-page scope. No 24-hour guess over WhatsApp. No number that climbs once they sense foreign money is paying for it.
You see exactly what the price buys before you pay a taka. Every branch, role, integration and screen is written down. A quote without a scope is just a sales tactic, and I won't give you one.
Half on advance, and half only when the software is live and working. Part of your money stays with you until the build matches the scope. That keeps risk low for an owner abroad who pays without seeing the work in person.
bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz, SMS gateway and accounting export are priced into the scope from the start. They are not paid "extras" found halfway through. I have built the OTP, IPN and reconciliation cases before, not on your build.
New needs get agreed openly against the signed scope. They are not sprung as inflated change bills after the advance clears. The end-of-project surprise that wrecks Sylhet software budgets is simply not how I work.
The price includes the full source code, database, server access and documentation on launch. You buy an asset you keep, not a subscription to a developer's goodwill. You can hire any local dev to take over later.
Walk along Zindabazar and half the buildings have an "IT solutions" sign on the second floor. Ask three of them to price the same software. You will hear anything from 60,000 BDT to four lakh. Most buyers decide the cheap one is honest and the expensive one is greedy. It is usually the opposite. The 60,000 quote is almost always a reskinned stock template. It has no plan for live multi-user data, branch separation, payments or the owner-abroad dashboard you described.
That quote wins the call and takes the advance. Then the gaps become "phase two" bills, or the developer goes quiet. The four-lakh quote sometimes earns its number with real architecture and a senior who stays to launch. Sometimes it just pads for a big office and three layers of staff between you and the coder. The price alone tells you almost nothing. What is inside it tells you everything. In Sylhet, almost nobody opens the box before you pay.
There is also a Sylhet-specific tax worth naming. The quote bends the moment a firm senses a brother in the UK is paying. They know he cannot drop in to chase the work or argue the bill. So the price Sylhet locals would pay quietly grows for a diaspora-funded build. The risk runs the other way too. Some developers go silent once the advance clears, knowing the man who paid is six time zones away.
I quote the same number whether the money comes from a tea stall in Sobhanighat or a restaurant chain in East London. I put the owner abroad on the scoping call, so he is the real client, not a wallet that cannot see the work. My number sits between the cheap template quote and the padded agency one. There is no office rent, no junior and no sales markup in it. Just one senior person who priced you straight, took 50% to start and the rest at launch.
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The real questions Sylhet business owners ask in their first WhatsApp message about software pricing. Answered straight, usually with the family abroad listening in.
Real custom software with a database, admin panel, user roles and at least one payment link starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Smaller tools often fit my 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT tiers. Think of a single-branch stock tracker, a property-lead web app or a basic booking tool. The smallest job is 50,000 BDT. Price depends on branches, roles, integrations, an owner-abroad dashboard and an Android app. I give one fixed BDT number after one scoping call. It does not grow because there is UK money behind it.
Because you are almost never buying the same thing. The word "custom" hides two very different builds. The 60,000 quote is usually a reskinned stock template. It has no real plan for live multi-user data, branch separation, payments or the owner-abroad dashboard. It demos fine, then breaks when real branches and money hit it. The gaps return as "phase two" bills. The higher number sometimes pays for real architecture, and sometimes just a big office. I show you the scope before you pay, so you can judge.
At 50,000 BDT you get a small, tightly scoped tool or light web app that does one job well. That might be a single-branch sales and stock tracker, a simple booking form with admin, or basic lead capture. The 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers add screens, user roles and links like bKash or SMS. From 3,00,000 BDT you get real custom software with branch and role logins, payments, reports and an owner-abroad dashboard. After one call, I tell you honestly which tier fits, even when a cheaper one does.
No. It is always 50% advance to start and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. You never pay the full amount before you see the software working. Half stays with you until the build matches the signed scope. That matters most for Sylhet's many diaspora-funded projects, where the owner abroad pays without seeing the work. He carries far less risk when the final half depends on a working launch. You also get 30 days of free fixes for real bugs, included in the price.
Not the way it does at most Sylhet shops. There, the real number arrives as change-request bills after the advance clears. My price is fixed against a signed one-page scope after the first call. If you ask for something truly outside that scope mid-build, we agree on it openly. You decide before any extra work starts. It is never sprung on you at the end. I scope before I quote so the number you agree to is the number you pay. A quote that "grows" was never scoped properly.
No, and that is on purpose. Many Sylhet firms quietly raise the price once they sense a brother in the UK is paying. They bet the investor abroad cannot drop in to argue the bill. I quote the same BDT number whether you are funded from Sobhanighat or East London. The owner abroad joins the scoping call and sees what he pays for. The owner-abroad dashboard is scoped and priced openly as part of the system. It is a feature, not a reason to inflate the price.
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