Hire one senior ecommerce developer in Rajshahi who finishes the store and is still reachable next mango season - not a student coder who graduates and disappears mid-build.
In Rajshahi the cheapest "developer" is usually a university student freelancing for pocket money between exams - and the store stalls the week he has a viva or lands a Dhaka job. Hiring me is the opposite. One senior operator scopes it, designs it, wires bKash, Nagad and cash-on-delivery, sets up the courier, and ships it live. Stores start at 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch, and you approve the full design before any code is written.
One senior operator, ~5 years building stores for Bangladeshi sellers - silk, dry mango, Barind honey, the lot. bKash, Nagad, COD, Sundarban, SA Paribahan and Steadfast all integrated before. Not a side hustle between semesters.
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Rajshahi has the opposite of a developer shortage, and that is exactly the trap. It is an education city - University of Rajshahi and RUET pour out smart students who pick up WordPress and a bit of WooCommerce, and a chunk of them freelance for pocket money in the Facebook groups. So when you ask around to hire an ecommerce developer, you get cheap quotes fast: 15,000 taka, 18,000 taka, someone's cousin who 'does websites'. The catch is structural, not personal.
That coder has a thesis defence in three weeks, semester finals after that, and a graduation-then-Dhaka plan after that. Your store gets built in the gaps between his real life, and somewhere around the bKash integration he goes quiet - not because he is dishonest, but because your project was never the priority. By the time you realise it, he has moved to Banani and changed his number.
I am RH Fardin, and I do this full-time as one operator - no agency, no bench, no rotating juniors, and crucially no graduation date that ends the relationship.
Around five years of building WooCommerce and Shopify stores for Bangladeshi sellers, a good share of them small-city businesses exactly like the ones Rajshahi runs on: silk and three-piece sets out of the looms, dry mango and aamsotto when the season hits, honey from the Barind tract, books and exam guides for the student crowd, electronics and household stock flipped out of Shaheb Bazar.
When you hire me, the person you ask koto taka is the person who draws your homepage and writes your checkout code - and the same person who picks up when something breaks during a Pohela Boishakh or Eid rush.
What you are actually paying for is the judgment around the code, not the hours of typing - and that is the precise thing a part-time student has not lived through yet. Which bKash flow to start on while your merchant approval crawls through the queue. Why cash-on-delivery has to be the default for an up-country buyer and how to set delivery-charge zones so a Dhaka or Sylhet order does not quietly eat your margin.
Why your silk product photos load in seven seconds on a mid-range Android over Rajshahi 4G and how to get that under three. When a serious volume of mango orders genuinely needs abandoned-cart recovery versus when that is just spend you do not need yet. A student building his fourth WooCommerce site cannot see those because he has not been on the other side of a launch-day failure. I have.
The honest trade-off: I keep only two or three serious builds in flight at a time, so onboarding can mean a short queue of a week or two. But when your store is in build it is genuinely in build - not parked behind an exam timetable. And if your real budget is under 50,000 BDT today, I will tell you plainly to stay on your Facebook page plus bKash and save up rather than sell you a half-store that embarrasses you in front of customers. That is sequencing, not a brush-off. Most Rajshahi sellers, once burned by a coder who vanished, actually respect being told the real thing.
Six things that come with hiring one senior operator instead of a student freelancer or a cheap Facebook installer - the parts that decide whether your store still works six months after launch.
This is my full-time work, not a between-semesters side hustle. There is no thesis, no finals, no Dhaka job offer about to pull the plug on your build. The person who starts your store is the person who finishes it and answers next season.
The person you negotiate price with codes your checkout and picks up when it breaks. No 'let me ask the senior', no project passed to a junior, no number that goes dead after the advance clears.
Personal-merchant bKash and Nagad flow with order-reference matching, so you stop digging through Messenger for payment screenshots at midnight. When your merchant approval clears, I add the auto-confirm gateway as a clean add-on.
Silk, mango and honey sell across the country, but most up-country buyers still pay cash-on-delivery. Delivery zones split inside-Rajshahi, outside-Rajshahi and Dhaka rates, with Sundarban, SA Paribahan or Steadfast handoff wired in.
Mango and aamsotto sell for a few months, then it is silk and books. The store is built so you can switch featured collections, pre-order windows and stock from your phone when the season turns - no support ticket every time.
Hosting, domain and admin in your own name, handed over in full. If we ever part ways you keep the entire store - no platform lock-in, nobody holding your shop hostage, unlike a student who buried it on hosting he controls.
Let me be fair to the students, because this gets misread as snobbery. The RU and RUET crowd are genuinely sharp, and for a one-page portfolio or a friend's blog, hiring one of them for a few thousand taka is completely sensible - I would tell you to do exactly that.
The problem is specifically an ecommerce store, where the value is not in the first build but in everything that comes after: the launch-day bKash test that fails on a real OTP, the courier zone that charges a Sylhet buyer the wrong rate, the checkout that breaks on a phone the week your Eid ad goes live, the mango pre-order page you need stood up in two days when the season hits early.
Those are the moments a part-time coder cannot be there for, because by then he has a viva, or finals, or a job in Dhaka that pays more than your whole project did. You are not buying his code. You are buying availability and judgment at the exact moments a store earns or loses money - and that is the one thing his timetable cannot give you.
Hiring me is the deliberate alternative: senior-level work for the build, and a person who is still here, full-time, when the store needs something six months on. We work entirely over phone, WhatsApp, Zoom and screen-share, so there is no office visit and no out-of-city premium - Rajshahi, Dhaka, anywhere, the price and the standard are the same.
You see the homepage and product-page design on Figma and you approve it before I write a single line of WooCommerce - that is the design-approval guarantee, and it means if the look is wrong you get revisions, not excuses, and the second instalment never falls due before you sign off. Price is locked: 50,000 BDT for a focused store, the 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT ladder as you grow, and fully custom from 3,00,000 BDT only when real revenue calls for it.
Terms are always 50% advance to start and 50% on launch day - no monthly retainer trap, and after launch you reach me directly, not a queue and not a disconnected student number.
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The questions Rajshahi sellers actually ask on WhatsApp before they hire. Straight answers, price first, no sales fog.
Hiring me for a single-vendor WooCommerce store with bKash, Nagad and COD live, up to 30 products loaded by me, courier delivery zones and a phone-friendly admin starts at 50,000 BDT. The next tier is 90,000 BDT - up to 150 products, filters, wishlist, abandoned-cart recovery and conversion-tuned product pages. A larger store with a custom theme and live courier API is 1,50,000 BDT. Anything custom - multi-vendor, B2B silk-wholesale pricing, ERP sync, custom checkout logic - starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Hosting and domain are paid separately to the provider in your own name, roughly 8,000-10,000 BDT for the first year combined. Terms are always 50% advance, 50% on launch.
For a portfolio or a blog, honestly, let the student build it - that is good value. An ecommerce store is a different thing, because the cost is not the first build, it is everything after: the launch-day bKash test that fails, the courier zone charging the wrong rate, the checkout that breaks during your Eid ad, the mango pre-order page you need live in two days. A part-time coder cannot be there for those - he has a viva, finals, or a Dhaka job by then.
50,000 BDT buys senior judgment plus a person still reachable next season, not just code that runs on day one. If that is not in budget yet, stay on Facebook and bKash and save up - that is the honest answer.
That is the most common story I hear from Rajshahi sellers, and the structure is what protects you. First, this is my full-time work - there is no exam season, thesis or graduation that pulls me off your build. Second, you pay 50% to start and the other 50% only on launch, so the bulk of your money is tied to the store actually going live, not to a promise.
Third, you own the hosting, domain and admin in your own name from handover, so nobody can bury your store on a server he controls. And because I run only two or three builds at a time, you are not project number forty behind an exam timetable. If you have a half-built store the last person abandoned, I will look at it and tell you honestly whether to rescue it or restart.
Yes. At the 50,000 BDT tier I set up personal-merchant flow - the buyer pays your bKash or Nagad personal number, references the order ID, and the system matches it when you confirm receipt in the admin. Most small Rajshahi sellers start this way because the bKash Merchant account needs a trade license and bank details and can take weeks to approve. When your account clears, I add the bKash Payment Gateway with auto-confirm as a roughly 10,000 BDT add-on - no rebuild needed, and your buyers get instant confirmation instead of you checking the app by hand.
No office visit needed, and there is no out-of-Rajshahi premium - the price and the standard are the same wherever you are. Everything runs over phone, WhatsApp, Zoom and screen-share. You see the homepage and product-page design on Figma and approve it before any code is written, and on launch day I screen-share a real test order paid by bKash so you watch the whole flow work. The real difference from a faceless Dhaka agency is who you are talking to: the one person who scopes, designs, codes and ships your store - not a sales rep who hands you to a junior. After launch you message me directly, not a ticket queue.
Yes, and it is built for it. The catalogue lets you switch featured collections, open pre-order windows for early mango or aamsotto, and edit stock and prices from your phone when the season turns - no support fee each time. On timing: about three to four weeks from the day the 50% advance clears and you send your product list, logo and photos.
Week one is design and your approval, week two the build, week three bKash, Nagad, COD, courier zones and product loading, week four testing on real phones plus a training session so you can run it yourself. If you are racing a mango season, tell me up front and I will sequence the launch around it - the slow part is usually waiting on your product photos, so I send a checklist day one.
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