Mobile app development in Chittagong for owners who care less about the customer's screens and more about whether their own staff can run the app on Monday morning.
I am RH Fardin, one senior developer who designs, builds and ships mobile apps for Chittagong businesses myself. I build shop, order, delivery, rider, booking and service apps. Each comes with a working admin panel and bKash and Nagad built in. Orders hold up on patchy 4G near the port. No agency, no junior you never meet, and no "we'll add the dashboard later." Projects start at 50,000 BDT, with 50% advance and 50% on launch. You approve the full design before I write a line of the build.
One senior operator, about 5 years shipping BD apps. From 50,000 BDT. 50/50 milestone pay. Design-approval guarantee. Direct on WhatsApp, with bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
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Almost every owner who asks me about mobile app development in Chittagong describes the customer side perfectly. They know the home screen, the product list, the bKash button and the order confirmation. Then I ask the question that decides whether the project lives or dies. When an order comes in, who sees it, on what screen, and how do they mark it done? Silence.
That gap is why so many Chittagong apps end up abandoned on the Play Store. The pretty customer app got built. The boring half never did. That is the admin panel where your manager at the Khatunganj counter accepts orders, updates a price, marks stock out and checks who paid. I build that half first, because your business touches it every single day.
I am one senior developer working solo, with about five years of building for the Bangladeshi market. My apps have to load on a mid-range Android on the choppy data you get off Strand Road. They are not built for office fibre in a demo. When you hire me for mobile app development chittagong, one person does it all. I scope your app, design the screens, write the code, connect the payment gateway and hand you the finished build.
There is no salesman in an Agrabad office winning the work while a junior you never meet delivers it. You explain what your shop, delivery run or service business does on a normal day. I build for that day, not a template with your logo dropped on top.
Chittagong runs differently from Dhaka, and its apps have to as well. This is a trade city. Khatunganj and Reazuddin Bazar wholesalers move volume on thin margins. Importers and C&F agents work off Agrabad. A wall of small retailers watch every taka. Restaurants and cloud kitchens cluster around GEC and Khulshi, and delivery riders thread through port traffic.
The apps that work here are not glossy lifestyle products. They need fast order entry, a clear running total, and bKash and Nagad that simply work. The wholesale crowd also needs a baki (credit) ledger, because half the real business in this city still runs on who owes whom. A Dhaka startup template looks great in a demo. Then it frustrates the people who use it forty times a day.
My prices are published, not made up on a call, because the koto taka dance wastes both our time. 50,000 BDT starts a focused app: one core job, the screens around it and a simple admin panel. 90,000 BDT and 1,50,000 BDT add modules like user roles, payments, delivery tracking and reports. Fully custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT. Think a rider app plus a dispatch dashboard, a multi-branch system or a real backend at scale.
You always pay 50% in advance by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and 50% on launch. You also get a design-approval guarantee. You sign off the full design before any code is written, or you walk away with the design work in hand.
Not a feature checklist. These are six things that decide whether an app survives a real Chittagong business. Every one is standard from the 50,000 BDT tier, not an upsell.
Your customer app ships with the screen your staff runs it from. They accept orders, update prices, mark stock out and see who paid. The operations half is built, not promised for "phase two."
Wholesale order entry with a running total and a baki credit ledger for regulars. Fast re-orders for the Khatunganj and Reazuddin Bazar crowd who buy the same list every week. Built for how this city trades.
Payments are designed in from the first screen. I test them in the sandbox and handle failures properly. So a customer near the port does not lose the order when the gateway times out, which happens more than the docs admit.
Tested on the low-RAM Symphony and Walton phones your customers and riders carry. Throttled to the patchy 4G off Strand Road and Agrabad. It loads fast and holds the order when the signal drops in a lift or basement.
The person who scopes your app writes the code and ships the build. Nothing gets lost in a relay between a salesperson in Agrabad, a project manager and a junior you never meet.
Full source code in your own repo. Hosting and gateway accounts in your name. Every login handed over in one document. No monthly hostage and no lock-in to me. Move to anyone later if you want.
Most Chittagong owners learn this the expensive way. The customer app, the screens you swipe in a demo, is maybe a third of the real work. The other two thirds sits behind it. There is the database that remembers every order and the admin panel where your staff works. There are user roles, so a rider sees a route but not your margins. There is payment matching, so on Friday you know what came in and what got refunded.
There are also the alerts that fire when an order lands. When a cheaper quote in Agrabad looks too good, this is usually what got quietly left out. You cannot bolt it on later without half-rebuilding the app. A delivery app with no dispatch dashboard is a toy. A shop app with no stock screen is a leaflet. I scope the plain backend first, on purpose. It decides whether you still run your business on this app a year from now.
It also shapes which apps I push you toward. Say you run one restaurant near Khulshi and 90% of orders come through Facebook and phone calls. You may not need a Play Store app at all. An installable web app with the same admin panel and bKash ships faster and costs less. A Khatunganj wholesaler whose regulars re-order weekly needs one-tap re-order and a clean credit ledger, not animations. For city-wide delivery, the real product is the dispatch view and live order status.
We spend the first call on your actual operation. Who touches the app, on what phone? How does money move? What breaks when you are not looking? Only then do we decide what gets built, based on how your business runs, not on what sounds impressive in a proposal. That is the difference between mobile app development chittagong bd that earns a spot on a home screen and another half-finished APK nobody opens twice.
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Straight answers to what Chittagong business owners ask in their first WhatsApp message about an app.
It starts at 50,000 BDT for a focused app: one core job, its screens and a simple admin panel. 90,000 BDT and 1,50,000 BDT add modules like user roles, payments, delivery tracking and reports. Fully custom builds, like a rider app plus a dispatch dashboard or a multi-branch system, start from 3,00,000 BDT. You always pay 50% in advance and 50% on launch by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. Once we talk through what the app must do, you get a clear number, not a vague "it depends."
It comes with one. That is the point of how I build. Every app I ship for a Chittagong business includes the screen your staff uses to run it. They track orders, update prices, mark stock out and see who paid. A customer app with no admin panel is a leaflet you cannot edit. The basic dashboard comes with the 50,000 BDT tier. Bigger needs, like more roles, branch separation and deeper reports, sit in the higher tiers. I tell you up front which one you need.
Often a web app is enough, and it ships faster for less. Many restaurants and small shops around GEC and Agrabad get most orders through Facebook, Instagram or phone calls. For them, an installable web app opened from their page usually beats a Play Store listing nobody searches for. It still has the admin panel and bKash. A real Play Store app earns its cost when you need device features at scale, like live GPS for riders, or a listing customers search for. I will tell you honestly which fits.
Yes, and with Chittagong's port traffic, it is one of the more useful builds. But a delivery app is two apps in one. The rider sees the route and order status. You use a dispatch dashboard to assign jobs and watch them finish. The dashboard is the real product. Without it, you are just tracking riders on WhatsApp. Live-tracking delivery systems with a full dispatch view are usually a custom build from 3,00,000 BDT. The backend that handles routing and status updates is where the real work sits.
Both, by default. I add bKash and Nagad from the first screen, test them in the sandbox and handle failures properly. So a customer does not lose the order when the gateway times out near the port. That happens more than the docs admit. I also test on the low-RAM Symphony and Walton phones your customers and riders carry, throttled to the patchy 4G off Strand Road. The app loads fast and holds the order when the signal drops. That is why you hire someone who knows this market.
You pay 50% in advance to begin and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. The split is the same for a single shop or a large Agrabad trader. It is fair both ways. You are not paying everything up front to a stranger, and I am not building a whole app on a promise. You own everything afterward. You get the full source code in your own repo, hosting and gateway accounts in your name, and every login in one document. Nothing is locked behind me.
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