A freelance Shopify expert in Dhaka you can actually sit across from.
I am RH Fardin. I personally build your Shopify store end to end in Dhaka, theme, custom Liquid, bKash and Nagad checkout, product import, Pathao and Steadfast rates and launch. No agency, no juniors, no account manager. We can do the kickoff over coffee in Gulshan or Dhanmondi, or fully over WhatsApp. Stores start at 50,000 BDT, 50% advance, 50% on launch.
~5 years building Shopify stores for Dhaka brands, one senior operator, design-approval guarantee before the final balance.
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You probably already have a Dhaka showroom, an Instagram shop doing decent DM sales, and a growing problem: every order is a manual back-and-forth on WhatsApp, your inventory lives in your head, and you are losing sales at 1am when nobody is there to reply. A Shopify store fixes that. The hard part in Dhaka is finding someone who will build it properly instead of dropping a free theme on your domain and disappearing once the bKash payment clears.
I am a freelance Shopify expert based in Dhaka, and I run a one-person operation on purpose. When you message me about a variant not saving or your Pathao rate showing wrong for outside-Dhaka, you reach the same person who set up your theme, imported your catalog, wrote your checkout instructions and configured your shipping zones. There is no ticket, no "let me ask the developer," no third person who never read your brief. That is the entire point of hiring a freelancer over a Banani agency: one accountable senior person, not four salaries baked into your quote.
Because I am here in Dhaka, we can meet. A lot of store owners in Gulshan, Banani and Dhanmondi want to sit down once, walk through their products, their photography and how they actually pack and ship, before handing over a deposit. I am happy to do that first session in person and run the rest over WhatsApp and screen share, which is how most of the build goes anyway. You are not wiring an advance to a faceless inbox.
About five years of Shopify work, much of it for Dhaka brands, has taught me where this market is different. Buyers here are overwhelmingly on mobile, they expect cash on delivery, they pay by bKash or Nagad before they trust a card, and they will abandon a slow store on a patchy 4G connection without a second thought. I scope and build around that reality. I price the work as a flat BDT number, take 50% advance, and you do not pay the rest until the design is approved and the store is live and taking real orders.
Six concrete things you get from hiring one senior person in the same city, instead of an agency layer or an overseas freelancer on a marketplace.
We can meet in Gulshan, Banani or Dhanmondi to scope the store over your actual products. You hand over an advance to a person you have met, not an anonymous inbox.
No 12-hour lag waiting for an overseas freelancer to wake up. When your store breaks during a Friday campaign, I am awake and reachable in Dhaka.
Inside-Dhaka, outside-Dhaka and cash-on-delivery rates wired into Pathao, Steadfast or RedX, so checkout charges the right amount instead of one flat rate that bleeds margin.
Shopify has no native bKash or Nagad gateway. I set them up as manual methods with the exact instructions, reference number and confirmation copy your Dhaka buyers expect to see.
Most Dhaka traffic is on a phone over mobile data. I keep the theme light and fast so the store loads on a weak signal instead of stalling and losing the sale.
Stores start at 50,000 BDT, most catalog stores land at 90,000 BDT, complex or B2B at 1,50,000 BDT, full custom from 3,00,000 BDT. 50% advance, 50% on launch.
Most Shopify owners in Dhaka end up choosing between three options, and each has a hidden cost. A local agency in Banani or Gulshan quotes you a senior price but staffs you with a junior; you pay for a project manager, a designer and a support agent whether your store needs them or not, and the person who sold you the project is rarely the one who builds it.
An overseas freelancer from a marketplace looks cheap until you are 12 hours out of sync, explaining bKash and cash-on-delivery to someone who has never shipped a parcel through Pathao and does not understand why your outside-Dhaka rate has to differ from your inside-Dhaka rate. And a Facebook "I build Shopify, 8,000 taka" offer usually means a nulled theme and an abandoned project once your deposit clears.
Hiring a freelance Shopify expert who actually lives in Dhaka removes all three problems at once. You get one accountable senior operator instead of an agency's salary stack, you get the same-timezone responsiveness an overseas hire cannot offer, and you get someone who understands this market because they ship in it. I scope honestly: if your catalog is small and your needs are simple, I will tell you so and keep you at the 50,000 BDT tier rather than upselling features you will never use. The price is a flat BDT figure, payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch, and there is a design-approval checkpoint before the final balance is ever due.
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.
What Dhaka store owners ask before hiring a freelance Shopify expert.
Shuru hoy 50,000 BDT theke. Eta cover kore theme setup, up to 40 products, bKash/Nagad manual payment instructions, ekta courier rate (inside/outside Dhaka) ar launch. Boro catalog (200+ products), multiple courier zone ba wholesale pricing er jonno 90,000 ba 1,50,000 BDT plan ase, fully custom 3,00,000 BDT theke. Payment: 50% advance, 50% launch er din.
Yes. I am based in Dhaka, so we can do the kickoff face to face in an area like Gulshan, Banani or Dhanmondi. Bring your products, your photos and a rough idea of how you pack and ship. After that first session most of the build runs over WhatsApp and screen share, but you have met the person you are paying, which matters when you are handing over a 50% advance.
Two reasons that cost you real money. First, timezone: an overseas freelancer is often 12 hours out of sync, so a checkout bug during a Friday-night campaign sits broken until they wake up. I am reachable the same day in Dhaka. Second, local context: I already understand bKash, Nagad, cash on delivery and why your inside-Dhaka and outside-Dhaka courier rates must differ. You will not spend half the project explaining how Bangladesh actually buys.
An agency assigns a project manager, a designer, a junior developer and a support agent, and your quote pays all four. I am one senior person who does all of it. The person who scopes your store is the person who builds, themes and launches it, and the person you message when something breaks. No sales call, no handoff, no escalation chain.
Yes, that is a core part of the setup. I configure shipping zones so inside-Dhaka, outside-Dhaka and free-delivery thresholds charge correctly, wire up your courier (Pathao, Steadfast or RedX), and set cash on delivery as a clear option since most Dhaka buyers still default to it. I also add the bKash and Nagad instructions so advance-payment orders are unambiguous.
If your DMs are full and you are losing orders overnight or double-selling stock, yes. Shopify gives you one place where inventory, pricing, payment and shipping live, and it still connects to your Facebook and Instagram shops so you do not lose that audience. I set up the Meta pixel and product catalog sync so your existing ads keep working, while the heavy lifting moves off your phone and onto a store that takes orders 24/7.
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