A freelance Shopify expert in Chittagong who actually knows Shopify, not just how to switch on a theme.
I am RH Fardin, a one-person studio. Most people who say "I do Shopify" in Chattogram install a free theme, plug in three apps and call it expertise. I work inside the platform: Liquid, the checkout limits, the app stack you are over-paying for in dollars, the theme settings that break on the next update. I do the whole build myself, tuned for how a port-city buyer orders, asks koto taka, then pays bKash or cash on delivery. Stores start at 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch, design signed off before I touch the code.
Senior solo operator . ~5 years building Shopify stores for Bangladeshi sellers . You hire the person who writes the Liquid, not a reseller . From 50,000 BDT, design-approval guarantee before the final balance
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Here is the trap a Chattogram seller walks into. You search for a Shopify expert, you find someone local who quotes a fair number, and what you actually get is a free theme switched on, your logo dropped in the header, three random apps installed and an invoice. It looks done.
Then six weeks later a Shopify theme update lands, a section disappears, an app starts conflicting with your cart, and the person who set it up has no idea why because they never opened the theme code in their life. They were never a Shopify expert. They were a theme installer who learned five settings screens. The gap between those two things is exactly where your store quietly starts losing orders, and it is the gap I built this around.
Being an actual freelance Shopify expert means knowing the parts of the platform that do not have a settings toggle. It means reading and writing Liquid so a section bends to your products instead of you bending your products to a template. It means knowing that Shopify's checkout is locked down hard on the basic plans, so adding a bKash instruction block or a cash-on-delivery rule has to be done a specific way or it simply will not hold.
It means looking at your app stack and telling you that two of the four apps you are paying dollars for every month do nothing a line of Liquid could not do for free. A theme installer cannot tell you any of that, because they have never had to.
There is a Chittagong-specific reason this matters more here than people admit. Plenty of Shopify "experts" treat Chattogram as a remote afterthought, the same store a Dhaka shop would get, sometimes at a Dhaka markup, built by someone who has never thought about how an Agrabad or Khulshi buyer behaves. But this is a trading city.
A lot of what sells here moves through the port and Khatunganj, the buyer haggles harder, scrolls on a mid-range Android between GEC Circle traffic, and decides whether to trust your store in the first few seconds. An expert who builds for that is making different decisions in the theme code and the checkout than one who is just reusing a Dhaka template with your name on it.
I am RH Fardin, a website designer and developer in Bangladesh with around five years of full-time work behind me, and I run this solo on purpose. The person who answers your first koto-taka message is the person who writes your Liquid, configures your checkout and picks up the phone when something needs changing after launch. My Shopify stores start at 50,000 BDT, with tiers at 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT as the catalogue and theme depth grow, and fully custom builds from 3,00,000 BDT.
Terms are 50% advance and 50% on launch, you formally approve the design before I write a line of code, and I will always tell you the one cost most installers hide: Shopify's own subscription and apps are billed by Shopify in dollars, separate from my fee. If the numbers are not there yet, I will say keep selling on Facebook plus bKash and come back when the volume justifies it.
Six things that separate Shopify expertise from a switched-on theme. Every one is part of the 50,000 BDT starting build for a Chittagong store, not sold back to you later as an upgrade.
Custom Liquid sections written by hand so your store does what your products need. When the next Shopify theme update lands, the build holds instead of quietly breaking with nobody who can read the code.
Most Chattogram stores bleed 30 to 60 dollars a month on apps they barely use. I cut what a line of Liquid can replace, so you stop paying Shopify in dollars for things a real expert builds for free.
Shopify's checkout is locked on basic plans, so bKash and Nagad instructions and COD rules have to be placed the one way that actually holds. Configured properly, not faked with a notes field a buyer ignores.
Chattogram buyers ask koto taka and weigh COD before they trust a card. The store leads with price and cash on delivery, and gives them one fast way to ask before they commit, so the sale does not stall.
Stripped of app bloat and tuned to open in a couple of seconds on a mid-range Android in CDA Avenue or GEC Circle traffic. A slow Shopify store reads as a risky seller here and the buyer is gone before it paints.
The store sits in your own Shopify account, theme files and admin in your name from day one, with a plain-English handover and a training round. You change a price from your phone, not through a support ticket.
Anyone can make a Shopify store look finished on day one. A free theme, your colours, a few products and three apps from the store, and the homepage looks the part. The difference between that and an expert build never shows up on launch day, it shows up at week six.
That is when Shopify pushes a theme update, when an app you forgot you installed starts a silent conflict with the cart, when a Chittagong buyer hits a checkout step that quietly assumes a credit card she does not have. A theme installer has no tools for any of it, because the work they did was choosing from menus. They never opened theme.liquid, never wrote a section, never reasoned about why Shopify behaves the way it does.
So when it breaks, they shrug, and you are the one refunding a confused buyer or watching your bounce rate climb.
An expert is making decisions a level deeper the whole time. I scope your store knowing that Shopify charges you in dollars every month and that every app on top is more dollars, so I keep the build lean and write Liquid instead of stacking plugins wherever it makes sense. I set the bKash, Nagad and COD flow into the checkout the specific way Shopify's locked checkout allows, so it survives instead of falling apart the first time a buyer follows it.
I build for the way this city actually buys, the haggling, the mobile-first scroll, the trust earned in the first few seconds, instead of reusing a template meant for somewhere else. And I do all of it myself, as one accountable senior operator, with the design signed off before any code is written and the final balance not due until the store is live and yours.
That is what you are paying a freelance Shopify expert for, and it is exactly what you do not get from the cheaper person who only knows how to switch a theme on.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point — I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
Every project starts at ৳50,000
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Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or send an email.
Real questions Chattogram sellers send me on WhatsApp before hiring a freelance Shopify expert. Straight answers, no sales script.
Shuru hoy 50,000 BDT theke. Eta cover kore custom theme (Liquid edits included), up to 40 products amar haate load kora, bKash/Nagad payment flow, COD set as default, ekta courier rate setup ar launch. Boro catalogue ba deeper theme work er jonno 90,000 ar 1,50,000 BDT tier ase, fully custom build 3,00,000 BDT theke. Payment: 50% advance, 50% launch er din. Ekta jinis alada kore budget korben: Shopify nijer monthly subscription ar apps dollar-e bill kore, eta amar fee-r baire.
Fair question, because most people who claim it are installers. The honest test is the code. Ask whether they can write a custom Liquid section, audit your app stack and tell you which apps to cut, and explain how Shopify's locked checkout limits where bKash and COD instructions can go. An installer goes quiet on all three because they only know the settings screens. I do those things on every build, the design is approved before I write any code so you see real work early, and after launch you reach the same person who wrote the Liquid, not a reseller.
Because it decides whether your bKash, Nagad and COD setup actually works or just looks like it does. On Shopify's basic plans the checkout itself is heavily restricted, you cannot freely drop custom fields or scripts into it the way you can on the rest of the store. A theme installer who does not know this fakes payment instructions in a spot the buyer never sees, and you lose orders. I set the local-payment flow up the specific way Shopify allows so a Chattogram buyer sees exactly how to pay and the order references correctly, instead of a checkout that quietly breaks the first time someone follows it.
Usually, yes. A lot of Chattogram stores are paying 30 to 60 dollars a month for apps doing things a small Liquid edit handles for free, a countdown timer, a simple size chart, a basic announcement bar, a custom cart message. I audit your installed apps, keep the ones genuinely earning their dollar cost, and rebuild the rest into the theme. Since Shopify and every app bill you in dollars, cutting two unnecessary apps often saves more over a year than a chunk of my fee. An installer cannot do this because writing the replacement requires Liquid.
I build both, so I have no reason to push you onto the wrong one. Honest take for a Chattogram seller: Shopify is worth its monthly dollar cost if you want it hosted, stable and low-maintenance and you are doing real volume, it just costs rent every month. WooCommerce gives you full control with no platform fee but you own the hosting and upkeep. If you came for Shopify but your numbers or your need for control point to WooCommerce, I will say so in the first call instead of selling you Shopify because it is faster for me to build.
No office visit needed. I work with sellers across Bangladesh, many in Chattogram, over phone and video calls, and most never meet me in person. You talk to the one person who designs, builds and ships the whole store, you approve the design before any code is written, and after launch you reach me directly to add a product or change a price, not a ticket queue. For larger builds from 90,000 BDT I am happy to come to your office in Agrabad, GEC, Khulshi or near the port for kickoff and final sign-off.
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