A typical online store development company in Gulshan puts three account managers between you and the person building your store. With me, you brief the builder and the builder builds. That is the whole company.
I build online stores for Gulshan brands that need bKash, Nagad, COD and Pathao logistics working from day one. They should not be bolted on after launch, once orders start dropping. I have about five years of doing this, as one senior builder. You get written design approval before any code ships.
From 50,000 BDT. 50% advance, 50% on launch. Stores go live on a fast stack: fast on Banani 4G, fast on a Robi prepaid SIM in Niketon, fast on the showroom iPad.
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Most Gulshan founders who call me have already spoken to two or three online store development companies on Gulshan Avenue. Every online store development company in Gulshan follows the same pattern. You get a polished pitch from someone in a suit and a quote between 2 and 5 lakh. Then you get a vague answer about who actually writes the code.
Then the build goes to a junior in Dhanmondi. More often, someone pastes it into a Shopify theme. That person has never taken a bKash payment themselves.
I am RH Fardin, and that is the gap I fill. I have spent about five years building stores for Bangladesh brands, working solo from brief to launch. Say you message me on WhatsApp at 11pm because the Bagikon plugin is double-charging customers. You are messaging the person who set up that plugin. There is no ticket number, no escalation queue and no 'let me check with the developer.'
For Gulshan, that matters more than people admit. Shoppers passing your Gulshan-2 boutique or ordering from your North Gulshan dark kitchen expect a 20-second checkout. That means bKash personal, then a Pathao courier slot, then a confirmation SMS. If the bKash redirect breaks, they screenshot Daraz instead. A senior solo builder catches that the first time. An agency catches it on revision four.
I build mostly on WooCommerce. It talks to bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz, Pathao and Steadfast, and you do not pay Shopify a 2% transaction tax on top. When Shopify truly makes sense, I build there too. That is usually for export-ready Gulshan brands selling to NRBs in London and Toronto. The choice depends on your buyer, not on which platform I prefer to invoice for.
Here are six things every store I ship for Gulshan brands has on launch day. There are no upsells, no 'phase two' and no surprise invoice after the first 50 orders.
I test both gateways with real 1 BDT payments before launch, using a personal merchant account or PGW, your choice. Customers on a Banglalink prepaid SIM in Gulshan-1 can pay without bouncing back to the cart.
Cash on delivery is linked to Pathao or Steadfast pickup. So the Gulshan-to-Mirpur run shows real delivery charges at checkout. Customers see 70 BDT inside Dhaka and 130 BDT outside, not a guess.
Your Gulshan showroom staff get a simple admin. They scan a product barcode, mark stock and fulfil the order. There is no 40-tab Shopify dashboard that nobody at the counter will ever learn.
Product titles, checkout labels and SMS confirmations switch between Bangla and English. Half your Gulshan-area buyers want an English layout. Buyers ordering for delivery to Bhola want the SMS in Bangla.
Stores load in under 3 seconds on a Redmi 9 on Banglalink. That is the phone half your traffic actually uses, not the iPhone 15 your designer tested on in Banani.
You sign off the product page, cart and checkout in Figma before any code. If the live store does not match what you approved, I rebuild it on my own time. That is written into the contract, not just a hope.
The Gulshan online buyer is not the average Bangladesh online buyer. Order values run higher. A Gulshan-2 boutique sees 4,000 to 12,000 BDT per order, against a national average of 1,500 BDT. These customers are also twice as likely to leave if the checkout feels cheap. So you need image-heavy product pages with proper Cloudinary delivery. You do not want 4MB JPEGs slowing the page to 7 seconds on the metro.
You also need a checkout that does not bounce through four clumsy pages. The 'pay now' button should go straight to bKash, without asking the buyer to copy a merchant number. None of this is hard. Yet the 25,000 BDT 'shop ready in 7 days' sellers on Facebook skip all of it. So do the bigger Gulshan companies that quote 3 lakh and then hand the build to a junior.
Logistics is the other thing Gulshan stores get wrong. Say you sell from a Gulshan-1 warehouse. Your delivery promise is not just 'within Dhaka'. It is Gulshan, Banani and Baridhara by the same evening, and the rest of Dhaka next day. Outside Dhaka, it is 2 to 3 days via Steadfast. That promise has to show on the product page, not just at checkout. Gulshan buyers compare you with Foodpanda and Chaldal, who tell them upfront.
I link your store to the Pathao or Steadfast API. Then the customer's pin code drives the real delivery window, not a generic 'we will contact you' line. For a Gulshan-area buyer who expects professional service, that one detail is worth more than any homepage animation.
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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An online store built to sell and scale.
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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 Gulshan founders ask before they hire me to build their online store. Direct answers and real numbers.
Stores start at 50,000 BDT for a clean WooCommerce build with bKash, Nagad and COD in one language. The 90,000 BDT tier adds Bangla and English, a Pathao or Steadfast logistics API and a showroom-friendly admin. 1,50,000 BDT covers a full multi-vendor or multi-warehouse setup. Custom builds with ERP, POS sync or B2B pricing tiers start at 3,00,000 BDT. You pay 50% in advance and 50% on launch, with no surprise invoices after.
At an agency, the senior who pitched you is not the one writing the code. Usually a junior in another office does the build. A project manager passes on your WhatsApp messages with a 4-hour lag. With me, the person you brief is the person who ships. I have about five years doing this, with no juniors and no handoffs. If your bKash gateway breaks on Friday night, I fix it, not a ticket queue.
Choose WooCommerce if your main market is Bangladesh. bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz, Pathao and Steadfast all plug in directly. You also skip Shopify's transaction fees on top of gateway fees. Choose Shopify if you mostly export to NRB buyers in the UK, US and Middle East and want the slickest checkout out of the box. Most Gulshan brands need WooCommerce. The few that ship abroad daily gain from Shopify. I will tell you straight, not push the one I would rather invoice for.
A standard 50,000 BDT WooCommerce store goes from advance to live in 3 to 4 weeks. That assumes you send product photos and copy on time. The 90,000 BDT tier, with two languages and full Pathao setup, takes 5 to 6 weeks. 1,50,000 BDT builds with more features run 8 to 10 weeks. Most delays come from waiting on product shoots, not from the build. I will tell you upfront if missing content will delay launch.
If you want it to, yes. I build with proper Schema, fast Core Web Vitals and location-aware product copy. I also set up a Google Business Profile for your Gulshan showroom address. That gets you into 'near me' results when someone in Banani or Baridhara searches for what you sell. Ongoing online store SEO after launch, like link building and new content, is separate work. But the foundation is in every store I ship.
Yes. I build on stacks that scale. That means managed WordPress hosting that handles 50,000 monthly orders without crashing, with Cloudflare in front. The database will not melt when you run a Black Friday campaign. Adding warehouses, languages, vendors or markets later is a paid extension. But it is an extension, not a rebuild. You will not outgrow the store in 18 months and have to start over.
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