In focus
Exactly what drives the price of an ecommerce site in Bangladesh
The three biggest cost drivers are catalogue size, checkout complexity, and trust elements. Catalogue: 20 products with one variant each is a different build from 600 SKUs with size, colour, and bundle pricing - more SKUs means more import work, more search/filter logic, more thumbnails to optimise. Checkout: a single bKash + COD setup with one shipping zone is fast; add Nagad, Rocket, card payment via SSLCommerz, multi-city shipping rules, and discount codes, and you are paying for testing time on every combination.
Trust: review widgets, verified-buyer badges, a working return policy page, fast support chat, courier tracking iframe - none of this is hard individually, but together they often make the difference between a 1.2% and a 2.4% conversion rate.
Here is what my tiers actually cover. 50,000 BDT - a starter store, up to ~30 products, bKash + COD, one shipping zone, basic admin, mobile-first, ready to sell. 90,000 BDT - up to ~150 products with variants, bKash + Nagad + COD, multi-zone shipping, discount codes, abandoned-cart email, sales analytics. 1,50,000 BDT - up to ~500 SKUs, full payment stack (bKash, Nagad, card), Pathao/Steadfast/RedX API integration, multi-admin roles, loyalty/points basics, custom homepage modules.
Custom from 3,00,000 BDT - multi-vendor marketplaces, subscriptions, ERP/POS sync, B2B pricing, app-ready REST APIs, anything that needs custom database work. 50% advance, 50% on launch. If you do not approve the design, you do not pay the second half - that is the design-approval guarantee, in writing, in the contract.