Pricing a Sylhet online store without the koto-taka guessing game
Why ecommerce website prices in Sylhet swing from 10,000 taka to several lakh, and what the gap actually is
Ask three people about the ecommerce website design price in Sylhet and you get three numbers that cannot all be true. A boy off the Zindabazar point quotes 10,000 taka. A Dhaka agency hears that your money comes partly from family in the UK and quietly floats two and a half lakh. A Facebook ad promises a "full ecommerce website" for 8,000. They are not selling the same thing, and none of them is really quoting the work.
The cheap figure is a free WordPress theme with a broken cart bolted on. The expensive one is often the same kind of template with a "premium" sticker and a retainer. The honest price sits in neither trap. This page tells you exactly where it sits. It also explains why your store is worth building at the real number, not the teaser one.
What makes a Sylhet store its own job, and drives its price, is who pays at checkout. In Sylhet, many orders come from people who are not in Sylhet at all. Probashi families abroad are a real customer base. A son in London orders sweets, panjabis or a grocery hamper for his parents in Shibganj. A daughter in New York pays for an Eid gift to reach a relative in Beanibazar. Families in the Gulf pay for a cake or a saree they will never hold.
That one fact changes the build. Your store may need to take a foreign card from a UK or US address as cleanly as bKash from a local phone. It must show prices a diaspora buyer understands. It must split "who pays" from "where it goes" without confusing either side. A store that serves a COD shopper in Ambarkhana and a card-paying son in Birmingham is more work than a one-payment local shop. The tiers map the price to that work, not to your accent.
The other half of a Sylhet build is delivery, and it is not a Dhaka delivery problem. Many of your customers are out in Beanibazar, Golapganj, Jagannathpur, Bishwanath or Companiganj. Your courier setup, COD flow and shipping rules must handle the upazila, not just the four blocks around Bandar Bazar. So a real store needs Pathao, Steadfast or RedX connected, so your staff stop retyping every address.
It needs a cash-on-delivery flow that marks the order paid once the rider hands it over. It needs zone-aware shipping, so a parcel to Sylhet town and one to a village an hour out are not priced the same by accident. The buyer never sees that plumbing, and it is most of what you pay for. The 10,000 taka version skips it. That is why those stores quietly lose orders, and the owner comes looking for someone like me within a few months.
When you hire me, the person quoting the price designs the store, sets up bKash and Nagad, connects the courier and ships it. No salesman lowballs you and then hands you to a junior who breaks the checkout. No Dhaka agency overhead hides in your figure: no tower office, no account managers, no margin on every hour. That is why my price undercuts a Dhaka agency for similar work. You pay one senior operator with about five years of shipping Bangladeshi online stores.
The number holds once it is set. 50,000 BDT buys a focused, properly working store. 90,000 BDT is the build most growing Sylhet shops choose. 1,50,000 BDT adds a bigger catalogue, more payment and courier power, and a diaspora-ready checkout. Custom work starts from 3,00,000 BDT. You always pay 50% advance and 50% on launch. You approve the full design before I write any code. No "final" invoice lands bigger than the quote, and no launch-day charge appears for a feature that was always in scope.
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