What NGO website development really means in Rajshahi
For a Rajshahi NGO, the website is an accountability tool, not a brochure
Open the books of almost any development organisation in Rajshahi and you find the same anxiety: every taka has to be traceable. A PKSF line, an embassy small-grants fund, an INGO sanitation contract, zakat collected after Jummah in Shaheb Bazar — each one comes with someone who will eventually ask where the money went and where it came in. That is the real reason ngo website development in Rajshahi is a different job from building a restaurant page or a portfolio.
For an NGO website in Rajshahi, a donation flow is not a button; it is a financial record your treasurer has to reconcile against the bKash and Nagad statements before the board meets. If the website collects 47,000 taka in a month and the cash-out figures do not match, that is not a bug — that is a finding in next year's audit.
So I build the giving side to produce clean, exportable records from day one, not a contact form that emails the founder and hopes someone writes it down.
The second hard fact about a Rajshahi NGO is who maintains the site, and it is rarely a paid IT person. It is a programme coordinator stretched across three projects, or — very often here — a capable RUET or Rajshahi University student volunteering a year before they graduate and leave. Whatever I build has to be runnable by that person on a budget Android, in Bangla labels, without a manual.
And it has to keep working after they hand the laptop to the next volunteer, because the single biggest reason northern NGO sites rot is that the one person who knew the login moved on. So development here is really a maintainability problem: the admin panel is trimmed to exactly what a non-technical coordinator touches, the code is documented, and the handover assumes the person running it in eighteen months has never met me.
I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer based in Bangladesh with roughly five years of building sites end to end — and a portfolio at rhfardin.com. When you hire me, the person who writes the donation logic, decides where donor records live, sets the publishing permissions and wires your bKash merchant number is one person, and that person answers the phone.
This matters more on an NGO build than almost any other, because the development choices — who can edit the financials page, how a receipt is generated, whether donor data is stored sensibly — are choices a trustee will one day have to defend to a funder. You do not want those decisions made by a junior you never met, pasting your mission into a bought theme in another city.
Pricing is posted, not invented per call, because grant-funded organisations budget to the taka. 50,000 BDT is a focused, well-built NGO site — About with your registration line, programmes, a clean give block and contact, on a CMS you control. 90,000 BDT is the bilingual build with live bKash and Nagad giving plus a structured projects-and-reports archive. 1,50,000 BDT is the full donor-facing development: structured donation records your treasurer can export, a transparency section, deeper content system and SEO setup.
Custom work — a beneficiary database, an M&E export, a portal for several partner NGOs — starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% advance via bKash, Nagad or bank, 50% on launch, and no production code begins until you approve the design in writing.
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