Where the photo is the product
In Banani the customer is paying for taste. The store has to look like it understands that.
Banani sells aspiration. The boutiques off Road 11, the dessert and cloud-kitchen brands the neighbourhood orders from at midnight, the skincare and fragrance labels, the slow-fashion houses charging four times the New Market price — they are not selling a cheaper version of something. They are selling taste, and the customer knows it. That changes the whole job of ecommerce website design in Banani, because here the website is not a glorified order form. It is the part of the brand the buyer judges hardest.
A 3,800-taka kurti photographed beautifully on Instagram, then dumped onto a store with a stretched logo, mismatched fonts and a product page that looks like a 2014 WordPress theme, does not read as 'premium with a website problem.' It reads as fake, and the buyer closes the tab.
I am RH Fardin, a website designer and developer in Bangladesh, working solo for around five years, and a lot of that work has been ecommerce for exactly this kind of brand — because this is where design-sensitive sellers cluster. When you hire me, the person obsessing over the spacing on your product page is the same person wiring your bKash and Nagad checkout, setting the cash-on-delivery flow, and pushing the store live. There is no account manager forwarding your brief, and no junior learning ecommerce on your customers' money.
You get one accountable senior hand and my honest, plain-spoken opinion on what your store should look like and do — not a stack of agency adjectives and a slider full of stock photos.
The deliverable is a store that looks worth the price and then actually takes the order. Product pages designed so a 4,000-taka item feels like 4,000 takas — generous imagery, real typography, the size and fabric and care detail a Banani buyer reads before she pays, trust cues that answer 'is this real' without her having to DM you first.
A checkout that takes bKash and Nagad without the broken-button moment, cash-on-delivery captured with the right Dhaka area and zone so couriers do not bounce, variants handled cleanly, and order data that drops into Pathao or Steadfast without anyone retyping forty addresses at midnight. An admin panel you and your team run in Bangla or English — add a product, change a price, drop an Eid sale — without phoning a developer every time the rack changes.
Pricing is published, not pulled out of you on a third call. Ecommerce stores start at 50,000 BDT for a focused store with a tight catalogue and the essentials done properly, 90,000 BDT for the standard build most growing Banani brands actually need, and 1,50,000 BDT for a larger store with bespoke product layouts, refined UX and full Bangla and English. Fully custom builds — heavier catalogues, integrations, multi-brand structures — start from 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are simple: 50% advance to lock the slot, 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and you sign off the design before a single line of production code is written.
See pricing in BDT