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. Start with the catalogue. 20 products with one variant each is a different build from 600 SKUs with size, colour and bundle pricing. More SKUs mean more import work, more search and filter logic, and more thumbnails to optimise.
Next is checkout. A single bKash and COD setup with one shipping zone is fast. Add Nagad, Rocket, card payment via SSLCommerz, multi-city shipping rules and discount codes, and you pay for testing every mix. Then trust: review widgets, verified-buyer badges, a return policy page, fast support chat and a courier tracking frame. Each is easy alone. Together, they often decide between a 1.2% and a 2.4% conversion rate.
Here is what my tiers cover. 50,000 BDT buys a starter store with up to about 30 products, bKash and COD, one shipping zone, basic admin and a mobile-first build. 90,000 BDT covers up to about 150 products with variants, bKash, Nagad and COD, multi-zone shipping, discount codes, abandoned-cart email and sales analytics.
1,50,000 BDT covers up to about 500 SKUs and the full payment stack (bKash, Nagad, card). It adds Pathao, Steadfast and RedX API links, multi-admin roles, loyalty basics and custom homepage modules. Custom from 3,00,000 BDT covers marketplaces, subscriptions, ERP or POS sync, B2B pricing and REST APIs. You pay 50% advance and 50% on launch. If you do not approve the design, you do not pay the second half. That design-approval guarantee is written into the contract.