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 group in Rajshahi and you find the same worry: every taka must be traceable. Think of a PKSF line, an embassy small-grants fund, an INGO sanitation contract or zakat collected after Jummah in Shaheb Bazar. Each one comes with someone who will ask where the money went. That is why ngo website development in Rajshahi is a different job from 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 must match against the bKash and Nagad statements before the board meets. Say the website collects 47,000 taka in a month and the cash-out figures do not match. That is not a bug. It 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 runs the site. It is rarely a paid IT person. It is a programme coordinator stretched across three projects. Very often here, it is a capable RUET or Rajshahi University student who volunteers for a year before they graduate and leave. Whatever I build must be easy for that person to run on a budget Android, with Bangla labels and no manual.
It must also keep working after they hand the laptop to the next volunteer. The biggest reason northern NGO sites rot is that the one person who knew the login moved on. So development here is really about upkeep. The admin panel shows only what a non-technical coordinator needs. The code is documented. The handover assumes the person running it in eighteen months has never met me.
I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer who works with NGOs across Rajshahi. I have about five years of building sites end to end, and a portfolio at rhfardin.com. When you hire me, one person does the key work. That person writes the donation logic, decides where donor records live, sets publishing permissions and wires your bKash merchant number. And that same person answers the phone.
This matters more on an NGO build than almost any other. Who can edit the financials page? How is a receipt made? Is donor data stored sensibly? A trustee will one day have to defend those choices to a funder. You do not want them made by a junior you never met, pasting your mission into a bought theme in another city.
Pricing is posted, not made up per call, because grant-funded groups budget to the taka. 50,000 BDT is a focused, well-built NGO site. It has an About page 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 build. It adds donation records your treasurer can export, a transparency section, a deeper content system and SEO setup. Custom work starts at 3,00,000 BDT. That covers a beneficiary database, an M&E export or a portal for several partner NGOs. Payment is 50% advance via bKash, Nagad or bank, and 50% on launch. No live code starts until you approve the design in writing.
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