What it actually costs to develop a working online store in Bangladesh
If you're searching online store development cost in BD, you want a number you can plan around, not 'inbox for price'. Here it is: development starts at 50,000 BDT, the usual tiers are 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT, and a fully custom platform begins from 3,00,000 BDT. One senior developer prices it, builds it, and runs the handover. No agency in the middle.
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There's a difference between designing how a store looks and developing the machine that runs it, and most confused quotes in Bangladesh come from blurring the two. Online store development is the engineering underneath: the cart that doesn't break on a slow connection, the stock count that drops when an order comes in, the admin panel you log into from your phone at 11pm to check today's orders, the bKash and Nagad checkout that actually clears, and the cash-on-delivery flow that hands an order to Pathao or Steadfast without you retyping the address. That's the work my 50,000 BDT floor pays for, a store that functions, not a screenshot of one.
The cost of developing an online store in BD moves with how much of that machine you need built. A focused store with one payment path, COD, and a clean admin sits near the floor. Once you add stock variants by size and colour, multiple payment gateways, automatic courier handoff, customer accounts and order history, or reporting you can actually read, you're paying for more code, more testing, and more hours, so you move up the tiers. I'll walk you through which of those your shop genuinely needs before I quote, because half of them you may not need on day one.
What the price is not: a soft number that quietly grows. The quote is locked before we start, 50% advance to begin and 50% on launch, and you approve the build before that final payment is due. If what's delivered isn't what we agreed, you don't pay the balance, that's the design-approval guarantee. It exists because too many shop owners in Bangladesh have paid an advance and then chased a developer who went quiet, or watched 'small extra charges' pile up mid-project until the real cost was double the quote.
And you aren't funding an org chart. The person who quotes your online store development is the person writing the code, wiring the payment gateway, testing the checkout on a real mid-range Android, and handing you the keys. No project manager's salary in your invoice, no junior practising on your launch. That's exactly why a single senior operator can develop a real store for 50,000 BDT when an agency would mark the same work up to two or three times for the same result.
Before any quote, these are the factors that move the price. Read them so you know which tier your shop actually lands in, and which features you can skip for now.
A short product list with no variants is quick to build. Hundreds of items with size, colour and live stock counts is real development work, and that's what pushes a store from the 50,000 BDT floor toward the higher tiers.
bKash, Nagad and cash-on-delivery checkout is included from the base. Adding card gateways, multiple providers or split-payment logic is extra development and testing, and that genuine setup work is part of what separates one tier from the next.
Capturing a COD order is cheap. Building it so orders flow straight into Pathao, Steadfast or RedX with weight and address ready costs more, and it's worth it only if your volume justifies it. Low volume, you won't be charged for it.
A basic order list is part of the floor. A dashboard that shows daily sales, low-stock alerts, customer accounts and exportable reports is more to develop, so it sits in the upper tiers, useful once your order count is real.
Standard cart-and-checkout keeps you near the floor. Bundles, subscriptions, multi-vendor, loyalty points or any unusual business rule is bespoke development and is where the 1,50,000 BDT tier and the 3,00,000 BDT custom range come from.
Whatever tier you land in, the deal holds: 50% advance, 50% on launch, build approved before the final payment. The quoted number is the number, no surprise invoices appearing once you're committed.
Online store development has two prices, and an honest quote names both. The first is the one-time build, what you pay me to develop the store, starting at 50,000 BDT. The second is what keeps it online after launch: your own domain and hosting, paid directly to those providers, plus any transaction fees the payment gateways charge per sale. Those running costs aren't mine to invoice and I don't mark them up, but I'll tell you roughly what they run in BDT so the real cost of owning a store is clear before you commit, not a surprise three months in when a renewal lands.
Where I'll push back is on paying for development you don't need yet. If you're a seller driving orders from Facebook with a focused product range, a store near the 50,000 BDT floor, mobile-first, fast on Android data, bKash and Nagad and COD working, an admin you run from your phone, is often the whole job.
You move up to 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT when the business actually demands it: a large catalogue with variants, multiple gateways, automatic courier handoff, real reporting, and a ground-up custom platform with unusual logic is where the 3,00,000 BDT range begins.
The point of pricing online store development this way is that you pay for the machine your shop actually needs today, built to grow, instead of a guessed number that's either too thin to sell or padded to cover an agency you'll never deal with directly. Tell me your products, payments and order volume, and I'll put the real cost in writing before a single taka moves.
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The questions shop owners actually ask me when they're trying to pin down what developing an online store will cost in Bangladesh.
Online store development starts at 50,000 BDT. The common tiers are 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT depending on your catalogue size, payment and courier setup, admin features, and any custom logic. A fully custom platform starts from 3,00,000 BDT. You'll see which tier you fall into and why before you commit, with 50% advance to start and 50% on launch.
A 12,000 BDT 'store' is usually a template with a buy button bolted on, no real bKash or Nagad clearing, weak or no cash-on-delivery, and an admin you can't actually run a business from. It looks like a shop on screen but breaks the moment real orders come in. My 50,000 BDT floor is for a developed store that takes orders reliably and that you control. Cheaper almost always means paying again later to rebuild it.
Design is how the store looks and feels; development is the working machine underneath, cart, stock, payments, courier flow, admin. They overlap, and my tiers cover both together. The cost moves with development complexity more than looks: a beautiful store with simple logic stays near the floor, while heavy stock, multiple gateways and custom rules push the price up because there's genuinely more to build and test.
No. The quote is fixed before we start. Terms are 50% advance and 50% on launch, and you approve the build before that final payment is due, so there are no surprise mid-project invoices. Separate from the build, you'll pay your own domain, hosting and payment-gateway fees directly to those providers, and I'll tell you roughly what those run in BDT upfront.
Yes, all three are wired in from the base 50,000 BDT tier, because in Bangladesh a store without them barely sells. Card payment, extra gateways or automatic courier integration with Pathao or Steadfast are the things that can move you to a higher tier, and only if your volume actually needs them. You won't pay to develop a feature your shop won't use.
Yes, and for most sellers that's the smart play. Launch a focused store near the floor price, start taking real orders, then have me develop more, extra payment options, courier automation, deeper reporting, as the business earns it. I build the store so it can grow, so you're not paying upfront for capacity you don't need yet.
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