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Online Store Development in GEC Chittagong

Online store development in GEC Chittagong for shops near the circle that already get the foot traffic but lose every customer who walks out without buying.

GEC is where Chattogram comes to shop — the malls, the apparel floors, the gadget counters, the crowd off CDA Avenue. But the buyer who browsed your shelf at 5pm and went home empty-handed is on their phone by 9pm, and right now they cannot order from you. I build the store that catches that second visit: real product pages, a checkout your mobile buyer can finish, bKash, Nagad and cash-on-delivery from day one. Floor is 50,000 BDT, and the demo you sign off on is the store that ships.

50,000 BDT floor. bKash, Nagad and COD wired in. Design approved before any code is written, with one senior operator on the build from scope to launch.

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Online store development GEC Chittagong

GEC gives you the footfall. The website is where you stop wasting it.

A shop near GEC circle has a problem most of Bangladesh would envy and still loses money on every day: it has too many people walking past. The apparel floors, the electronics counters, the cosmetics and shoe shops feeding off the mall crowd and the CDA Avenue traffic — they get seen by thousands. But a large share of those people look, ask the price, say they'll think about it, and leave.

In a city centre that busy, "I'll think about it" almost always means the sale is gone, because the next shop is fifteen steps away. An online store does not replace that footfall. It catches the part of it that was about to evaporate — the buyer who liked your jacket but wanted to compare, the customer who needs a second size you didn't have on the rack, the one who lives in Halishahar and isn't driving back to GEC tonight.

Here is the gap I keep finding in GEC shops that already "have a website." The site was built to look like a brochure, not to take an order. The product photos are there, maybe a price, maybe a phone number — and then nothing happens. The buyer screenshots the item, sends it to your Facebook page, waits for a reply, asks koto taka, asks if you deliver, and somewhere in that back-and-forth half of them drop off. Online store development in GEC Chittagong, done properly, closes that loop.

The product page has a working add-to-cart, the checkout captures the order and a clean delivery address, bKash and Nagad and COD are right there, and you get the order in a panel — not buried in a DM thread you'll see tomorrow.

I'm RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer based in Bangladesh, with around five years building the kind of small-to-mid online stores Chattogram retailers actually run. I personally scope your store, design it, wire the payments, set up the order flow, test it on a real phone, and hand you a working admin you can run yourself. There is no agency layer between us, no junior practising on your shop, and no account manager translating a brief you already gave me clearly. When you message about a stock issue at launch, you message the person who built the thing.

Pricing is plain and the same for everyone. A real, launched store starts at 50,000 BDT — not a trial that nags you to upgrade in three months. Tiers run 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT as your product range, order volume and automation needs grow, and fully custom builds start at 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are 50% advance to begin and 50% on launch, with a design-approval guarantee: I do not write a line of development code until you have signed off on the look.

The honest price comes from cutting agency overhead, not from cutting the work — one senior operator, a scope written down before we start, and a store that actually works on launch day.

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What's included

What a GEC online store build actually includes

These are the six working pieces I make sure are running before the launch invoice goes out — each one picked for how a shop trading near GEC circle actually sells and where it leaks customers.

01

Catches the second visit

The buyer who browsed your GEC shelf and left now finds the same product, the same price and a working order button on their phone that night. The store exists to convert the footfall you already paid rent to get.

02

bKash, Nagad & COD

Wired around what your buyers actually use — bKash and Nagad next to cash-on-delivery, never a card-only checkout that sits empty. Included on the entry budget, not sold back to you later as an add-on.

03

Built mobile-first

Designed on a 360-pixel phone screen before desktop, because your GEC customer decides on a mid-range Android in mall traffic. Thumb-reachable add-to-cart and product photos that load on one bar of signal.

04

Variants done right

Size, colour and model handled cleanly — critical for the apparel, shoe and gadget shops that fill the GEC floors. The size you were out of on the rack is still a sale online instead of a lost customer.

05

Self-run admin

A Bangla-friendly panel where your staff add products, update stock and mark orders shipped from a phone behind the counter — no call to me for every price change. A big reason the total holds at 50,000 BDT.

06

One senior operator

I design, build, test and ship your store personally, around five years doing exactly this. The price is honest because there's no agency overhead, not because there's a junior on the keyboard.

In focus

The GEC shop's real competitor is the screenshot-and-DM habit

If you sell anywhere near GEC, your biggest leak is not the shop across the corridor. It's the way buying already happens in Chattogram: a customer sees your product — in the shop, on Instagram, on a friend's recommendation — screenshots it, sends it to your Facebook page or WhatsApp, and asks koto taka. Then they ask if you deliver, then they ask how to pay, then they go quiet because the reply came forty minutes late and they were on their phone for a free five minutes during a meeting.

Every step in that chat is a place the sale can die, and you are paying a person to sit in the inbox and lose some of them. A proper online store collapses that whole conversation into one screen: the price is printed, delivery is obvious, bKash, Nagad and COD are right there, and the order is placed before the buyer's attention moves on. You don't replace the DMs — you give the ready-to-buy customer a faster way through, so your inbox is left for the genuine questions.

So when I build online store development in GEC Chittagong, I start from that buyer's phone, not from a desktop template. The product page answers koto taka before they have to ask. The variants are real, so a buyer can pick the colour and size you actually have without messaging to check.

The checkout captures a clean, courier-ready address — division, district, thana, area — because plenty of your orders go to Halishahar, Agrabad, Khulshi, and out to the upazilas, and your team should not be retyping addresses into a courier portal by hand. What I deliberately leave out to hold the price at 50,000 BDT is the heavy machinery — courier API hooks, automated SMS flows, abandoned-cart recovery — the automation that earns its keep at high volume but sits idle while you're winning your first few hundred online orders.

That's the honest line between affordable and cheap: cheap skips the order flow and hands you a brochure; this builds a store that genuinely takes orders for a GEC shop today and is ready to grow into the automation when your volume actually asks for it.

Investment

Pricing in BDT — no mystery.

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

Starter

Starter Website

A sharp, credible site that makes the right first impression and brings enquiries.

50,000/ from
  • Up to 4 custom pages
  • Mobile-first responsive design
  • On-page SEO setup
  • Contact form + WhatsApp
  • Live in ~2 weeks
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Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra

Ecommerce

Ecommerce Store

An online store built to sell and scale.

1,50,000/ from
  • Shopify or WooCommerce
  • Product, cart & checkout
  • bKash / SSLCOMMERZ + delivery
  • SEO-ready product pages
  • Launch QA + training
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Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra

Design-approval guarantee. You approve the design first, and you only pay the second half once your site is live and you're happy.

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.

Frequently asked

Straight answers before we build.

The real questions GEC shop owners ask me before paying the first 50%. If yours isn't here, message me directly.

Online store development GEC Chittagong-te koto taka? What does it really cost?

It starts at 50,000 BDT for a working store — real product pages with variants, a checkout that captures orders, bKash and Nagad plus cash-on-delivery, courier-ready address fields and an admin your staff can run from a phone. The common tiers are 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT depending on product range, order volume and how much payment and courier automation you want; fully custom builds start at 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are 50% advance and 50% on launch, and you test the working store before that final payment clears.

I already have a website for my GEC shop. Do I need a new one or can you fix it?

Send me the link first — I'll tell you honestly. If your current site is really a brochure with no working checkout, rebuilding as a proper store from 50,000 BDT is usually cheaper and faster than bolting commerce onto a page that was never built for it. If you have a real store that just needs payment fixes, variant cleanup or a mobile redesign, I'll quote that smaller scope instead. I'm not going to sell you a full rebuild you don't need.

Most of my customers just DM my Facebook page. Why move them to a store?

You don't move all of them — you give the ready-to-buy ones a faster path so your inbox is freed for real questions. Right now a customer who already wants the item still has to ask koto taka, ask about delivery, ask how to pay, and wait for replies, and some drop off in that gap. A store answers all of that on one screen and places the order instantly, while the buyer is still interested. The chats that are left are the ones that actually need a human.

I sell clothes and shoes — lots of sizes and colours. Can the store handle variants?

Yes, and for a GEC apparel or footwear shop that's the whole point. I set up real size and colour variants with their own stock counts, so when a size sells out it shows as unavailable instead of taking an order you can't fill. The size you were out of on the rack today is still a sale online tomorrow. We map your variant structure before I build so it matches how you actually stock, not a generic template.

Will customers be able to pay with bKash and Nagad from day one?

Yes. Every store I launch supports bKash and Nagad from day one through personal-number instructions at checkout with manual confirmation by SMS, alongside cash-on-delivery. If you have a registered company and qualify for the bKash or Nagad merchant gateway, I wire the API in as soon as your paperwork clears — usually within a couple of weeks of launch, without changing the price we already agreed on.

How long until my GEC store is live, and who actually builds it?

Three to four weeks for the 50,000 BDT tier from the day the 50% advance clears, assuming you send product photos, prices and descriptions in the first week. The schedule runs design in week one, your approval and revisions in week two, development and content upload in week three, then real-device testing and launch. I build it personally start to finish — no junior takes over after the kickoff call. That single-operator model is exactly why the price stays honest and the store still works on day one.

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