In focus
What actually drives the cost of developing an online store in BD
When people ask the inevitable koto taka question for store development, the honest answer is that the price is decided by the engine, not the look. Three things move it. First, your catalogue: a 40-product shop is a different build from a 2,000-SKU store with variants, sizes and real stock tracking. Second, your payment and delivery logic: a single bKash button and flat shipping is simple, while bKash plus Nagad plus card plus cash on delivery, with separate inside-Dhaka and nationwide courier rates, is genuine integration work.
Third, your operations: do you need order statuses, automatic confirmation emails, an admin that warehouse staff can actually use, or just a basic catalogue? Each layer is real development time, and that is what you are paying for — not pixels.
That is why I scope before I price instead of throwing out a number to win the call. Store development in Bangladesh starts at 50,000 BDT, with tiers at 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT as your catalogue grows and the payment, courier and order logic gets heavier; large custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT.
Payment is 50 percent advance and 50 percent on launch, and you sign off on the design before I write a line of code — that is the design-approval guarantee, so you never pay for a direction you did not approve. The cheap shortcut almost always costs more later: a store built wrong turns every small change into a developer bill, and a store built right hands the daily work back to you and only brings me in for the genuinely hard parts.