What an ecommerce site actually costs in Bangladesh, without the inflated quote and the silent upsells
Most ecommerce website development cost quotes in BD are vague on purpose. You ask the cost, and they answer with another question, which I will not do. Here is exactly what a working online store costs to build. That means bKash, Nagad, cash on delivery, courier sync and a Bengali-friendly checkout. I'll also show you what makes that number go up or down.
Five years building stores for BD merchants. Solo operator: the person quoting the cost is the person writing the code. Floor: 50,000 BDT. Custom builds from 3,00,000 BDT. 50% advance, 50% on launch. No retainer trap.
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Most BD ecommerce "agencies" set the ecommerce website development cost with one eye on what they think you can pay. A boutique gets quoted 1,20,000 BDT for a WooCommerce build. A small electronics importer gets quoted 4,50,000 BDT for the same build. I have watched it happen for years.
The reason is simple: there is a sales person between you and the developer, and that sales person gets paid to push the number up.
I am RH Fardin, the developer, the project manager and the person who answers your WhatsApp at 11pm when the bKash payment gateway throws a strange error. Five years in, I have shipped many Bangladesh-facing stores in fashion, electronics, grocery, pharmacy and organic food.
So I know what each one actually takes in hours, plugins and integration time. That is what the cost is built from. It is not a markup, and it is not a margin for three other people on the call.
Say I quote 50,000 BDT, 1,50,000 BDT or 3,50,000 BDT for an ecommerce build. I can break it down on the spot: theme work, product setup, payment gateway, courier API, COD logic, order panel and admin training. You see the parts. If you cut a part, the number moves.
Try getting that level of openness from an agency proposal. They will send you a 12-page PDF that still does not tell you what one cart icon redesign costs.
My pricing tiers are 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT for standard ecommerce builds. Custom stores start at 3,00,000 BDT. That covers multi-vendor stores, ERP-linked stores and stores with very large catalogs.
Terms are 50% advance and 50% on launch, with a design-approval guarantee. Say the homepage and product-page mockups do not match what we discussed. Then we keep working on them until they do, before a single line of code is written.
These are the six pieces that carry the cost inside an ecommerce website in BD. When you know what each one does, you can negotiate from facts instead of vibes.
bKash Personal or Merchant, Nagad, SSLCommerz or AamarPay. Each has its own API quirks, sandbox testing and live checks before it goes live. This is where most cheap quotes quietly break later.
Cash on delivery is still 60 to 70% of orders for most BD stores. Address checks, district limits, partial COD with a bKash advance and fake-order filters are all real work. All of it is in the cost.
Orders push to Pathao, Steadfast, RedX or eCourier from the admin panel. Without this, your packer copies 80 orders a day into another tab by hand. With it, one click sends the consignment.
Field labels, error messages and order emails read naturally in both languages. Most templates skip this. You pay for it once, and the boost in sales is permanent.
Your buyer is on a mid-range Android with patchy data in Mirpur or Sylhet. Image compression, lazy loading and cached product pages are built in, not bolted on. A slow store loses the sale before the cart loads.
A one-hour walkthrough shows your team how to add products, update prices, mark orders shipped and pull a sales report. They won't need to message me for every change. The cost includes this. Most agencies bill it as "support".
The biggest cost driver is not design. It is integrations. A simple 50-product fashion store with bKash and Pathao is truly a 50,000 to 90,000 BDT job. Add Nagad and SSLCommerz, and it goes to 1,10,000 BDT. Want a courier router across Pathao, Steadfast and RedX that picks the cheapest courier per district? That is custom work, at 1,80,000 BDT and up.
Now add multi-vendor logic. Shop owners log into their own panel and take orders, and you settle payouts weekly. That puts you firmly in the 3,00,000+ BDT custom-build zone. Each of these is a real piece of code, not a price-list trick.
The second driver is catalog size and complexity. 100 products with one image each is cheap. 2,500 SKUs with size and colour options, stock tracking per warehouse and bulk CSV import is a different project. The third driver is how ready your content is. If you send product photos, descriptions and category lists on day one, the build moves fast. If I have to chase 400 product images for six weeks, the project drags, and so does the cost.
Here's my honest advice. Before you ask for a quote anywhere in BD, count your SKUs, list your payment methods and list your couriers. Then decide who is writing product copy. That one hour of homework can cut 30,000 to 50,000 BDT off your final number, with me or with anyone else.
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Here are the cost questions BD merchants actually ask, answered straight.
A standard BD ecommerce site with bKash, Nagad, COD and one courier integration runs 50,000 to 1,50,000 BDT. The exact figure depends on catalog size and design polish. Custom multi-vendor, ERP-linked or high-traffic stores start at 3,00,000 BDT. Anything quoted at 15,000 to 25,000 BDT is either a template dump or someone who will vanish after launch.
They pay sales commission, an account manager's salary, office rent in Gulshan and profit for three layers of staff. None of that adds a single feature to your store. Solo developer pricing strips those layers out and bills you for the actual work. You get the same WooCommerce, the same payment gateways and the same result, for a lower number.
The build cost is one-time. You pay separately for a domain (about 1,200 BDT a year) and hosting (3,500 to 12,000 BDT a year, depending on traffic). SSL is often free through Let's Encrypt. Optional monthly maintenance starts at 3,000 BDT a month. There's no silent retainer and no surprise bills.
bKash Personal, with a manual check of each payment, is included in the 50,000 BDT floor. bKash Merchant Tokenized is included in the 90,000 BDT and 1,50,000 BDT tiers. With it, the customer enters their PIN and the order confirms itself. You will also need a bKash Merchant account. It is free to apply for, but approval takes 1 to 2 weeks.
No, you pay 50% advance to start and 50% on launch. The advance covers design mockups, theme setup and core development. The second half is due once the store is live and the payment gateways pass tests with real transactions. You also sign off on the admin panel training first.
Yes, and this is the smart way to do it. Launch with bKash, COD and one courier at 50,000 BDT, and get to your first 100 orders. Then add Nagad for about 12,000 to 18,000 BDT, or a second courier for 8,000 to 15,000 BDT. Product reviews and a wishlist cost 10,000 to 25,000 BDT. Spread the spend, prove the demand, then grow the store.
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