Online store development in Rajshahi: the working machine behind the storefront — checkout, payments, stock and orders — not just a pretty catalogue.
A storefront anyone can mock up in an afternoon. The part that decides whether you make money is everything a buyer never sees: the checkout that captures a bKash payment without you scrolling chat at midnight, the stock that drops when a saree sells so you stop overselling it, the order that lands in a panel with an address clean enough to hand a courier picking up from Rajshahi. That is the development — and it is what I build, end to end, by hand. Floor is 50,000 BDT, and the demo you sign off on is the store that goes live.
50,000 BDT floor. bKash, Nagad and COD wired in, courier-ready orders, design approved before any code. One senior operator, around five years building stores for Bangladeshi sellers.
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There is a sentence I hear from Rajshahi sellers more than any other: "I already paid someone for a website and it does not take orders." Nine times out of ten what they bought was design — a homepage, a logo, some product photos arranged nicely — and what they needed was development. The difference is not pedantic. Design is the shop window a buyer in Dhanmondi judges in two seconds before deciding your silk is worth the price.
Development is the entire machine that runs the second they tap order: the bKash or Nagad payment gets captured and tied to that exact order, the item drops out of stock, you get a notification, and the order arrives in a panel laid out so you can hand the address to a courier — not retype it. A beautiful store that drops the order on the floor is not a cheaper store. It is a more expensive Facebook page.
Rajshahi is a particular kind of market to build for, and a store that ignores that leaks money in ways the seller only spots three months in. This is silk city — the silk house off Saheb Bazar, the saree and three-piece sellers in Boalia, the handloom workshops out toward Sapura — and almost none of that product's real demand is local.
The buyer who pays well is in Dhaka or Sylhet, or it is family abroad ordering silk for an occasion, which means your store has to sell cloth to someone who has never touched it and then ship it cleanly out of the city. It is also an education hub: RU and RUET and the medical and engineering crowd around them are a live student market for clothing, gadgets and books, and they buy almost entirely on a mid-range Android over a 4G signal that wobbles.
Develop for that buyer — fast pages, a thumb-friendly checkout, COD they trust — or watch them bounce before the first photo loads.
I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer based in Bangladesh, around five years into building the small-to-mid online stores Rajshahi actually runs. I have built for a silk-and-saree seller bleeding the Dhaka customer to glossier shops with worse cloth, a student-market clothing brand that lived entirely in Facebook comments near campus, a Barind honey-and-dry-mango seller who needed a store that could take a seasonal rush and then go quiet. In every one of those, the win was never the homepage.
It was the order pipeline behind it. I scope it, design it, write the checkout and payment logic myself, test it end to end on a real phone over a real network, and hand you an admin you can run from behind the counter in Bangla. No junior learning on your shop, no account manager relaying what you already said clearly the first time.
Development at this standard starts at 50,000 BDT — a real launched store, not a demo that nags you to upgrade in ninety days. Tiers run 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT as your catalogue, order volume and automation grow, and a fully custom build starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are the same for everyone: 50% advance to begin, 50% on launch, and a design-approval guarantee — I write no code until you have signed off on how it looks.
There is a separate page if all you want is the cost breakdown; this one is about what the build actually is. The honest trade for a fair price is focus, not corners — one senior operator, a scope written down before we start, and no padded invoice for engineering you will not use this year.
Six pieces of the machine I make sure are genuinely running before the launch invoice goes out. None of these show up in a pretty mockup — and every one of them is where a cheap build quietly fails.
A real checkout that captures the order, the address and the payment intent in one pass — not a "message us to order" button that pushes the buyer back into Messenger. The single biggest gap between a store that sells and a catalogue that just sits there.
bKash and Nagad wired so a payment is matched to its order ID, with cash-on-delivery as the default your up-country buyers still trust. No more cross-checking screenshots against a chat thread at 11pm to figure out who actually paid.
When the last piece of a saree or a silk run sells, it drops out of stock automatically, so you stop selling the same item twice between the counter and the website. Variants for colour, size and length handled properly when your cloth needs them.
Address fields split by division, district, thana and area, so an order leaving Rajshahi is ready to hand to Sundarban, Steadfast or RedX without your team rewriting it. Built for a sender outside the capital, where pickup is a scheduled run.
Images compressed and the page kept light so it opens in seconds on a mid-range Android over patchy Rajshahi 4G — the exact device the RU and RUET student market is buying on. A slow store loses the sale before the photo even renders.
A Bangla-friendly panel where your team adds products, edits stock and marks orders shipped from a phone — no calling me for every price change. Owning the day-to-day yourself is a big part of why the build holds at 50,000 BDT.
Most stores sold in Bangladesh are built front-to-back: the homepage first, because that is what the client can see and approve, and the checkout last, rushed, as an afterthought. I work the other way around, and for a Rajshahi seller that order matters. The homepage is the cheapest part to get right and the least likely to cost you a sale.
The order pipeline — checkout, payment capture, stock, the order panel, the courier-ready address — is the hard, invisible part, and it is the part that is broken in nearly every cheap store I am asked to rescue. So I design and prove that machine first: a buyer in Uttara can finish the checkout on their phone in under a minute, the bKash payment lands tied to the right order, the item drops from stock, and the order appears in a panel you can read on the same handset you sell from.
Once that genuinely works, the storefront on top of it is the easy, enjoyable part.
There is a specific Rajshahi twist that front-to-back builders always miss: this city ships outward, it does not deliver across town. The shipping logic, the courier defaults, even the layout of the address form in most templates quietly assume the seller sits in Dhaka and parcels fan out from the capital. For you the opposite is true — your real orders go to Dhaka, Sylhet, Chittagong, sometimes to family abroad ordering silk — and pickup from Rajshahi is a scheduled courier run, not a rider ten minutes away.
That makes clean, courier-ready addresses and orders that are ready to hand off matter more, not less. So I develop the address form and order panel for a sender in Rajshahi from the start. What I deliberately leave out at 50,000 BDT is the heavy automation — courier API hooks, automated SMS, abandoned-cart recovery, multi-warehouse stock — the machinery that earns its keep at high volume but sits idle while you are still winning your first few hundred online buyers.
That is the honest line between a serious build and an overbuilt one: develop the pipeline you will use this year, and leave clean hooks for the automation you will grow into when your order count actually asks for it.
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It starts at 50,000 BDT for a fully developed, working store — real product pages, a checkout that captures orders, bKash and Nagad plus cash-on-delivery, courier-ready nationwide address fields, automatic stock, and an admin your team can run from a phone. The tiers run 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT depending on catalogue size, order volume and how much payment and courier automation you want; a fully custom build starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are 50% advance and 50% on launch, and you test the working store before that final payment. If you want only the detailed cost breakdown, I keep a separate pricing page for exactly that.
Design is the look — the homepage, the layout, the product photos arranged so a Dhaka buyer trusts your silk in two seconds. Development is everything that works after they tap order: the checkout captures the order and address, the bKash or Nagad payment is matched to that order, the item drops out of stock, you get notified, and the order lands in a panel ready to hand to a courier. Plenty of cheap builds sell you design and quietly skip the development, which is exactly why so many sellers tell me their website looks fine but does not take orders. I build both, and I build the development part first.
That is precisely who these stores are developed for. The product pages are built to sell cloth to someone who has never walked into your shop — true colour, close-up zoom, weave and length written out — and the checkout is one a Dhaka buyer can finish on a phone in under a minute. Because the address form and order panel are developed for a sender in Rajshahi, an order from Dhaka or Sylhet arrives ready to hand to your courier without retyping. Reaching the out-of-city buyer is the entire point of developing the store, not a feature bolted on at the end.
Speed and trust, mostly. That crowd buys clothing, gadgets and books on mid-range Android phones over a 4G signal that comes and goes around campus, so the store is developed to load fast on a weak connection and check out with the thumb in a few taps. Cash-on-delivery stays the default because students trust it, with bKash and Nagad alongside for those who prefer to pay up front. If you run flash drops or limited student offers, the stock logic and a simple coupon setup handle that cleanly — and the heavier promo automation is there to add on the 90,000 BDT tier when your volume justifies it.
It is built on a standard, well-supported stack — typically WordPress and WooCommerce for a store at this size — on hosting and a domain registered in your own name, not mine. You own all of it: the code, the admin, the content, the customer and order data. There is no platform lock-in, no monthly ransom, and no developer keeping a key to your shop. If we ever part ways, you walk away with a complete, working store and I hand over every login. Owning it outright is the point — a store you rent is a store someone else can switch off.
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. Week one is design, week two your approval and revisions, week three development and product loading, week four real-device testing and launch. After launch I include a short period to fix anything that genuinely breaks from the build itself, and a training walkthrough so your team can run the store. Ongoing changes and new features are quoted as you need them — but because you own and can run the admin, the small day-to-day edits do not need me at all.
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