What an online store really costs in Gulshan when one senior person builds it.
If you are a Gulshan brand sitting in Gulshan 1 or 2, comparing Daraz fees with running your own online store, you have probably been quoted anywhere from 25,000 BDT to 8 lakh for the exact same thing. I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer with around five years of work behind me. I build online stores at three honest price points starting at 50,000 BDT, and I put the math on this page so you stop guessing.
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A friend in Gulshan 2 recently sent me four quotes for the same 40-product fashion store: 35,000 BDT from a kid on Facebook, 90,000 BDT from a Banani agency, 2,40,000 BDT from a Dhanmondi software house, and 6,50,000 BDT from a foreign-facing agency in Gulshan 1. Same scope. Same product catalogue. Same payment gateway. The spread tells you something important: most of what you are paying for in this city is not the store, it is the overhead and the guesswork.
I work as a one-person operation, which is the only reason the floor on my online store development price in Gulshan is 50,000 BDT. There is no project manager forwarding your WhatsApp message to a junior. There is no sales executive padding the quote to cover the next office rent in Gulshan Avenue. You speak to the person who designs the homepage, sets up your bKash and Nagad checkout, configures SSLCommerz, and pushes the live button. That is the whole team.
The other reason prices vary wildly is that almost nobody in Dhaka itemises what they are actually charging for. A Gulshan boutique selling 50 SKUs does not need the same backend as a Gulshan-based importer with 4,000 SKUs and three warehouses. I refuse to quote without first understanding which one you are. After a 20-minute call I send a fixed-price proposal in BDT with the scope written out in plain English, so you can compare apples to apples against any other quote in your inbox.
Roughly five years of building stores for Bangladesh brands has taught me where Gulshan founders waste money: oversized themes you cannot edit, custom backends you do not need, and Stripe integrations that do not work for local buyers anyway. My pricing reflects that. You pay for the parts that actually move orders in this city, and nothing else.
Three honest tiers, plus a custom option. All prices in Bangladeshi taka. Every tier includes bKash, Nagad and card payments, mobile-first design, and the design-approval guarantee.
Up to 25 products, single category, bKash/Nagad/card checkout, courier integration with Pathao or Steadfast, basic order admin. Right for a new Gulshan boutique or home-kitchen brand testing the water before scaling.
Up to 150 products, multiple categories with filters, abandoned-cart emails, coupon codes, Facebook Pixel and GA4 set up properly. The tier most Gulshan fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands actually need.
Up to 500 products, multi-warehouse inventory, customer accounts, wishlists, loyalty discounts, blog, advanced SEO and a proper analytics dashboard. Built for established Gulshan brands doing 50+ orders a day.
B2B portals, multi-vendor marketplaces, ERP-connected stores, custom checkout flows, English-Bangla bilingual setups. Quoted only after a working session, never sold off a price list.
50% advance to start, 50% on launch day. No retainer locks, no hidden 'maintenance' clauses inside the contract, no out-of-scope invoices appearing two weeks before delivery.
You sign off the homepage and product page designs before I write a single line of code. If you are not happy with the design direction, we revise until you are, or you walk away with your advance refunded.
The honest 'koto taka?' answer depends on six things, and most Gulshan agencies will not tell you which one is pushing your quote up. First, product count: the jump from 25 SKUs to 500 SKUs is not just data entry, it is filtering, search, image optimisation and inventory rules. Second, payment gateways: a bKash personal merchant account behaves very differently from a full SSLCommerz integration with card, Nagad and bank-transfer fallback, and the latter takes more setup days. Third, courier integration: Pathao and Steadfast both have proper APIs now, RedX is workable, and choosing two of them with auto-label printing is roughly a day of work that nobody quotes for separately.
Fourth, what kind of buyer you are designing for: a Gulshan-based brand selling to other Gulshan, Banani and Baridhara customers can lean premium and slow on the homepage, while one selling nationally has to load on a 3-bar Robi connection in Rangpur and convert in three taps. That single decision changes the homepage layout, image weight and product page length, and it can swing the build by 20,000 BDT.
Fifth, content readiness: if you give me clean product photos, written descriptions and pricing in a spreadsheet, you stay inside your tier. If you want me to write copy, retouch photos and source the lifestyle imagery, that is a separate line item I will quote upfront, never bury. Sixth, what happens after launch: a one-time build at 50,000 BDT does not include monthly changes.
If you want a person to add new collections, push Eid campaigns and patch things every month, that is a small monthly fee on top, and I tell you the number before you sign.
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
A sharp, credible site that makes the right first impression and brings enquiries.
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A full, professional site that ranks and converts for a growing business.
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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.
The questions Gulshan founders actually ask me on the first call, with the real answers.
Three honest tiers: 50,000 BDT (starter, up to 25 products), 90,000 BDT (growth, up to 150 products), and 1,50,000 BDT (premium, up to 500 products with multi-warehouse and loyalty). Custom builds for B2B portals or marketplaces start at 3,00,000 BDT. Every price is in Bangladeshi taka, fixed, and includes bKash, Nagad and card checkout.
Because 20,000 BDT in Dhaka usually means a free Shopify trial with someone else's stolen theme, no bKash integration, no SSL setup beyond Cloudflare's free tier, and a person who disappears the day after you pay. The 50,000 BDT floor exists because below that I cannot integrate proper payment, courier APIs, and still spend the design time the store needs. If your budget is genuinely under that, I will tell you honestly on the call and point you elsewhere.
No. bKash personal/merchant checkout, Nagad, SSLCommerz card payments and Pathao or Steadfast courier integration are included in every tier from 50,000 BDT upwards. The only extra cost is the gateway charges that bKash, Nagad and SSLCommerz themselves charge per transaction, and those go to them, not to me.
Yes. Pricing is based on the scope of the store, not your postcode. A Gulshan brand and a Mirpur brand pay the same 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT for the same scope. The only Gulshan-specific thing is that I sometimes suggest a heavier visual treatment because buyers in this area expect a more premium feel, but that does not push you into a higher tier.
50% advance to start the design phase, 50% on launch day before the store goes live. Payment by bKash merchant transfer, bank transfer to a Bangladeshi business account, or for larger custom builds, a milestone-based bank schedule. No retainer, no auto-billing, no foreign-currency invoices unless you specifically need one.
Domain name and hosting (roughly 8,000-15,000 BDT a year, paid directly to the provider so I am not marking it up), gateway transaction fees, premium stock photos, professional product photography, copywriting if you cannot supply product descriptions, and any ongoing monthly changes after launch. All of these are optional, transparently priced, and discussed before you pay the advance, never added later.
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