In focus
What ecommerce really costs to build properly in Gulshan, and what eats your budget
An ecommerce website is not a brochure site with an 'add to cart' button glued on. The cost in Gulshan stretches because of things buyers never see — bKash and Nagad merchant integration, courier API hookup, an inventory dashboard your team can actually run, transactional emails and SMS for order confirmations, refund flows, and the careful UX work that turns a curious scroll into a paid order. Every one of these has to be built and tested with real test orders, real test taka, real refund cycles. Skipping any of them is what makes most cheap ecommerce sites in Dhaka quietly fail in month three.
My ecommerce builds start at 50,000 BDT for a focused single-brand store with up to roughly twenty products, bKash or Nagad, and one courier integration. The 90,000 BDT tier covers a larger catalogue, full bKash plus Nagad plus card payments, multi-courier and a proper admin dashboard. At 1,50,000 BDT we add discount codes, abandoned-cart recovery, advanced filtering, multi-warehouse stock, and the kind of polish a Gulshan premium brand needs to sit alongside Daraz without looking like an afterthought.
Anything beyond that — custom backend logic, ERP sync, B2B portals, large catalogues — moves into custom territory from 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are simple: 50% advance to start, 50% on launch, and I will not move the design forward to development until you have signed off on it. That single rule kills the 'revision war' that drags most ecommerce projects in Dhaka past their launch date.