Why Chittagong firms come to one operator for custom software
The custom software development service Chittagong businesses actually need is their own real workflow on a screen — not 'enterprise' bloat priced for Gulshan.
The first message usually comes from someone running an operation the rest of the country quietly depends on. A C&F agent off Agrabad tracking forty consignments through customs on a whiteboard and three WhatsApp groups. An importer near Khatunganj whose entire LC-to-landed-cost calculation lives in one Excel file on one laptop that nobody else is allowed to touch. A trading house behind GEC where the godown stock, the delivery orders and the party ledger never agree because each one is a different register in a different hand.
None of them need a giant ERP sold by a Dhaka vendor. They need the exact process they already run — the way a port-city firm really moves goods, money and paperwork — finally sitting on one shared screen that also works on a phone.
Here is what makes the Chattogram software brief its own thing, and why a generic 'custom software development service' quoted from Dhaka usually misfits it. The work here is overwhelmingly trade — import, export, C&F and freight forwarding, indenting, commodity and raw-material supply, light manufacturing feeding off the port.
That means the software has to understand things a generic inventory template never will: a bill of entry, an LC number, a B/L, demurrage and port charges, a consignment that is half-cleared, a party who pays 30% now and the rest on delivery. I build the tool around those real objects, in the language your staff already use on the floor, so a manager in Agrabad opens it and recognises his own operation — not a foreign demo with fields he has to mentally translate every time.
When you hire me you are not hiring a 'company' where a salesman wins the work and a junior you never meet writes the code. I am the discovery call, the one-page scope, the database design, the screens, the actual code, the bKash and Nagad integration if you need it, the printable invoice in BDT, and the person who answers on WhatsApp when something needs fixing before your morning shipment.
One senior operator, around five years building dashboards, internal tools, inventory systems and ecommerce backends for Bangladeshi firms and a few abroad. There is one thread for the whole project and one person responsible — no 'developer is on leave today,' no message lost between a sales rep and a backend team in another office.
Pricing is honest and structured, and it is the same whether your letterhead says Chattogram or Chittagong. 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose tool — one workflow, one admin, one report that one department actually opens every day. 90,000 BDT and 1,50,000 BDT for multi-role systems with user logins, an admin panel, party and stock management, and the reports your owner looks at every morning.
From 3,00,000 BDT for fully custom builds — multi-branch, real-time inventory across godowns, courier and payment-gateway integration, custom logic that spans departments — scoped in writing before we begin. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch via bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and nothing gets coded until you approve the design. That last part is the guarantee.
See pricing in BDT