Freelance, and serious about it
Hiring a freelance ecommerce developer in Rajshahi without betting on a part-timer
There is a specific problem with hiring a freelance ecommerce developer in Rajshahi, and it is not the one Dhaka writers warn you about. Rajshahi is an education city — Rajshahi University, RUET, the medical and the dozens of coaching centres around Kazla and Binodpur mean the cheapest "freelancer" you find is very often a student doing web work between classes. He is talented, he is hungry, and he will quote you 12,000 taka.
Then mid-terms land, or final-year project season hits, or he graduates and moves to Dhaka or abroad for a job — and your half-finished store, with bKash never properly wired, goes quiet at exactly the moment you needed someone reachable. The store is not the risk. The continuity is.
I am RH Fardin, and I do this full-time as my actual profession, not as a side gig that pauses for an exam timetable. Around five years building ecommerce stores for Bangladeshi sellers — silk and three-piece houses, mango and honey sellers who run the Barind season, book and gadget shops near the university, clothing brands selling up-country on Facebook.
I take the discovery call, design in Figma, build the WooCommerce or Shopify store, wire bKash, Nagad, Rocket and SSLCommerz, set up cash-on-delivery and the courier handoff to Sundarban, SA Paribahan or Steadfast, and train you on the handover. Same person, start to finish, and the same person on WhatsApp when you want a flash-sale banner up an hour before you post it.
The other thing Rajshahi sellers carry around is a quiet belief that the real ecommerce developers are all in Dhaka, so a serious store means hiring a Dhaka agency, paying Dhaka prices, and chasing a project manager who treats your shop as account number forty-one. That made sense fifteen years ago. It does not now.
The build is WooCommerce, the design happens in Figma, the payments are bKash and Nagad, the meetings are on Google Meet — none of it needs a Dhaka office, and a Rajshahi-based freelancer who builds for how your buyers actually pay is the upgrade, not the compromise. You explain how your customers order on Facebook, ask koto taka, then pay COD or bKash on delivery, and I build the cart around that — not around a Western template that assumes a credit card.
Being a freelancer here is a structural advantage if the freelancer is genuinely senior and genuinely committed. There is no account manager translating your Bangla into a brief for a junior practising on your store, and there is no semester break in the middle of your build.
The flip side of trusting one person is that you need protections, so they are baked in: you approve the full design in Figma before I write a line of code, that is the design-approval guarantee, and you pay 50% advance and 50% only on launch. Tiers run 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT as your catalogue and volume grow, with fully custom builds from 3,00,000 BDT only when revenue clearly calls for it.
And if your budget is honestly under 50,000 BDT today, I will tell you to stay on your Facebook page and bKash and save up — a half-built store is worse than no store, and I would rather you come back when it can be done right.
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