The koto-taka question, answered honestly for Uttara
Why nobody in Uttara will tell you the price of custom software in one message — and the five things that actually decide it.
Ask a website price in Uttara and you get a number in ten minutes. Ask a custom software price and the conversation goes strange: 'depends, bhai', 'let's meet', 'send requirements first', and then a range so wide — 80,000 to four lakh — that it tells you nothing. It is not a conspiracy. Custom software genuinely costs whatever the work inside it costs, and a five-line WhatsApp message rarely says enough to know that work. But there is a real difference between a developer who can't price it until he understands it, and one who keeps it vague on purpose so he can revise the bill upward once you're committed. This page is about the first kind. The honest answer to 'custom software development price in Uttara koto?' is: tell me what the tool has to do, and I'll give you one fixed number — but here is precisely what I'll be pricing.
Five things move a custom software quote, and almost nothing else does. First, how much data the tool tracks and how tangled it is — a flat order list is cheap, an inventory that has to reconcile stock across two Uttara branches is not. Second, how many kinds of user log in — one owner is simple; an owner, a cashier, a delivery agent and an accountant each seeing different screens is real work. Third, reporting — 'show me today's sales' is trivial; 'show me margin per product per branch per month and let me export it for the VAT return' is a feature on its own. Fourth, integrations — wiring in bKash and Nagad, an SMS gateway, or a courier API like Pathao or Steadfast each add tested, careful hours. Fifth, who writes the content and the logic rules. Everything else people pad a quote with — 'enterprise', 'scalable', 'AI-ready' — is usually just words on the markup.
That five-point list is also why my floor can sit at 50,000 BDT while a software house off Jasimuddin Avenue opens at three or four lakh. I am RH Fardin, a software developer who has worked solo for about five years building tools for Bangladeshi SMEs, and my price is the design and build hours of one senior hand — no office lease on a Sector 7 main road, no sales desk, no project manager forwarding your idea to a junior who half-gets it. A single-purpose tool for an Uttara business — an order tracker, a stock-and-sales register, a simple invoicing or booking system — lands in the 50,000 to 1,50,000 BDT band. A genuinely custom, multi-module system built from the ground up starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Every quote is one fixed number written on a scope sheet, split 50% on signing and 50% on launch, payable by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
And I quote a fixed number on purpose, because the alternative is the trap Uttara owners keep falling into — the open-ended 'we'll see how it goes' arrangement that has no ceiling. You approve a vague idea, work starts, and three weeks in it's 'sir, eta to extra', and the bill drifts past where you'd ever have agreed to begin. The only way to give you a price you can actually plan around is to nail the scope down first, which means I'd rather spend an unpaid hour understanding your workflow than hand you a cheap number I'll have to walk back. If your problem honestly fits a ready-made tool or a well-built spreadsheet, I'll tell you that on the first call instead of selling you a build — a straighter answer than a 50,000 BDT invoice for software you didn't need.
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