Most stores near GEC Circle look done. The real test is not the homepage. It is whether checkout still takes a bKash payment at 10pm during your sale. It is whether the order reaches the courier without you retyping it.
I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer. As an ecommerce website development company in GEC Chittagong, I build the part most outfits skip. That is the working machine behind the pretty front. It means bKash and Nagad matched to order numbers, cash on delivery as the default, and courier exports for Pathao and Steadfast. It means a catalogue you run from your phone behind the counter. I design, code and ship every store myself, from 50,000 BDT.
One senior solo developer with about 5 years building stores for Bangladeshi sellers. Design-approval guarantee in writing. You brief one person, and that person writes the code. Talk to me directly on WhatsApp. Pay 50% advance and 50% on launch by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
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Stores that reach me from GEC sellers almost always share the same wound. The front looks fine and the back is hollow. That is the gap between design and a real ecommerce website development company in GEC Chittagong. One shop near GEC Circle paid 25,000 taka. It got a clean product grid and a hero slider that looked great in the demo. Then the holes showed up one at a time after launch.
The bKash button just opened a number with no order matching. So payments and orders lived in two separate messes. The cash on delivery form had no Bangla address fields and no area zones. Every order got retyped into the Steadfast panel by hand each morning. Only the developer could edit the catalogue, and he had gone quiet. That is the difference between ecommerce design and ecommerce website development in GEC Chittagong BD. Design makes a screen. Development makes a store that runs every day without babysitting.
Why does this keep happening around GEC? The cause is built into the market. GEC Circle holds Chattogram's densest stack of web shops. There is Sanmar Ocean City, Finlay Square, and the towers toward 2 No. Gate and Wireless More. It can feel like a development desk sits on every other floor. At a 50,000 taka price, an office with rent and salaries has to cut a corner to make a profit.
So they put the visible work, the design, where the client looks. They starve the hidden work: the checkout logic, the courier handoff and the admin you run yourself. The client cannot judge that until the first real rush. You end up with a store that passes the demo and fails the Eid sale. The development is the part that does not show on a signboard. It is exactly the part those shops underbuild.
So here, the phrase means the engineering, stated plainly. It is a real WooCommerce build. bKash and Nagad come with a transaction ID step that matches each payment to its order number. You stop checking screenshots against your order list at midnight. Cash on delivery is the default, with Bangla address fields. Area selectors match how Pathao, Steadfast and RedX zone Chattogram: GEC, Khulshi, Nasirabad, Halishahar and out of city.
A courier-ready CSV export turns your morning into a single upload, not an hour of typing. You get a self-edit admin you run from your phone at the counter. I load-test the checkout against a campaign-level spike before handover, not just a clean score on my own fibre. The build is the product. Anyone off GEC Circle can make a grid look finished.
When you hire me, there is no sales desk and no junior. I am the discovery call, the catalogue plan, the Figma design and every line of checkout code. I am also the person on WhatsApp six months later when a payment does not confirm on a busy evening. I am one senior developer with about five years of building stores for Bangladeshi sellers.
Pricing is fixed and plain. 50,000 BDT buys a focused store. 90,000 BDT adds deeper stock with bulk import and stock control. 1,50,000 BDT buys a larger bilingual build. A fully custom platform starts from 3,00,000 BDT. It is always 50% advance and 50% on launch, with the full design signed off before the final payment. If your budget is under 50,000 BDT today, stay on Facebook plus bKash and save up. That is sequencing, not a brush-off.
Six things separate an engineered store from a good-looking theme that quietly leaks orders. All six are standard from the entry price, not upsells in a premium tier. All of them live in the backend a GEC shop's last developer skipped.
bKash and Nagad come with a transaction ID step that matches each payment to its order number. No more checking WhatsApp screenshots against your order list at midnight, wondering who paid.
Cash on delivery is the default, with Bangla address fields. Area selectors follow how Pathao, Steadfast and RedX split the city. GEC, Khulshi, Nasirabad, Halishahar and out of city each get their own rate.
Orders export to a courier-ready CSV you upload once. You stop retyping every address into the Steadfast or Pathao panel by hand. The build should save your time, not add a daily chore.
I load-test checkout and product pages against a campaign-level burst before handover, not one quiet visitor on fibre. A boosted post should bring orders, not a 500 error on your best sales night near GEC.
The self-edit admin works from your phone behind the counter. Add a product, change a price when the supplier moves, or switch a banner before you post. No support ticket and no per-edit fee.
The WooCommerce admin, hosting account and domain are all in your own name. You get the code on launch, with one handover document. No nulled theme, no temporary bKash number, and no GEC developer holding the store hostage.
Almost every broken GEC store I rescue failed in the same four places. You can check all four on the first call, not after launch. One is payment matching. Ask if a bKash payment marks the order as paid on its own, or if you match it by hand. If it is by hand, you bought a button, not an integration. Two is the courier handoff. Ask if you can export confirmed orders as a CSV for Pathao or Steadfast. Retyping costs you hours every week.
Three is the admin. Ask if you can add a product and change a price from your phone, or if you must email the developer. If you have to email, you do not own the store. You rent the developer. Four is load. Ask if checkout is tested against a campaign-level spike before handover. A store that only saw one quiet visitor will meet its first crowd as a 500 error during your sale.
I build to pass all four, because I write the backend, not just the screen. Payments match order numbers. Orders export clean to your courier. The admin is yours to run from behind the counter. I load-test checkout against a real burst before handover, not a green score on my own connection. That is why a one-person studio can beat a named GEC development house here. There is no office margin to protect by starving the hidden work, because there is no office.
You approve the design in Figma before I write any code. Under the design-approval guarantee, you never owe the second half for a build you did not sign off. The price is locked at 50,000 BDT for a focused store. You pay 50% on signing and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. If you move real volume, skip the loudest desk on the floor. It is the one senior who has shipped this exact machine before and answers when it needs a fix.
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Here are the questions GEC sellers really send me on WhatsApp before the 50% advance. These are the backend ones, not the brochure ones, with straight answers.
The floor is 50,000 BDT for a single-vendor WooCommerce store. It has bKash, Nagad and cash on delivery, up to 30 products loaded by me, courier CSV exports and a self-manage admin. 90,000 BDT adds bulk import, stock control, filters and abandoned cart recovery. A larger bilingual store with a custom theme and Pathao API is 1,50,000 BDT. Fully custom work starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Hosting and domain are paid separately, in your name. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank.
It depends on what is underneath. Your last build may be a real WooCommerce store on a clean theme, with broken integration work. Think bKash not matching, COD with no zones, or no courier export. Then I can often rebuild the backend and keep the design you paid for. That costs less than a restart. If it is a nulled theme on hosting the old developer controls, nothing is safe to keep. A fresh 50,000 BDT build is the honest answer. I tell you which before taking any advance.
Design is what the buyer sees: the layout, photos, product grid and colours. Development is the machine behind it. That is the checkout logic, bKash and Nagad matching, COD zones, courier export, your own admin, and load handling for a boosted post. Most GEC shops spend a 50,000 taka budget on design, where you can judge it. They starve development, where you cannot, until the first Eid rush exposes it. I do both, but weight the budget toward development. The design does not take the order. The checkout does.
That is the real test, and most GEC stores fail here. The cause is usually a bloated page builder theme, heavy images, and a checkout never tested under load. I build on a lean theme with no heavy builder. Product images convert to WebP on their own. I load-test checkout against a campaign-level burst before handover. I also size your hosting, in your own account, for the spike you expect near GEC. A boost should send orders to a store that holds, not a 500 error on your best night.
You run it yourself. The admin works from your phone. Add a product, or edit a price the moment your supplier's price moves. Swap a banner an hour before you post. Mark COD orders confirmed for the morning courier upload. On launch you get a one-hour training call and written, Bangla-friendly guides. There is no per-edit fee and no support ticket for daily running. That is the point of owning the development, instead of renting a GEC developer who charges 2,000 taka to change a price.
No, and no. I work with sellers across Chattogram, including GEC, Khulshi, Nasirabad, Agrabad and 2 No. Gate. Almost all of it happens over WhatsApp, calls, Google Meet and screen share. I will not claim a Sanmar-area office I do not have. That fake overhead is the cost I cut, so the budget goes into your store, not a signboard. You approve the full design in Figma before any code. After launch, you reach me directly when a payment misbehaves, not a ticket queue or a junior who left.
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