Online store development in Rajshahi: the working machine behind the storefront. Checkout, payments, stock and orders, not just a pretty catalogue.
Anyone can mock up a storefront in an afternoon. Your money depends on the part a buyer never sees. The checkout takes a bKash payment, so you don't scroll chat at midnight. Stock drops when a saree sells, so you stop overselling it. Each order lands in a panel with an address clean enough for a courier picking up from Rajshahi. I build all of that by hand. The floor is 50,000 BDT. The demo you sign off on is the store that goes live.
50,000 BDT floor. bKash, Nagad and COD set up, courier-ready orders, design approved before any code. One senior developer, about five years building stores for Bangladeshi sellers.
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Sellers who ask about online store development in Rajshahi often tell me the same thing. "I already paid someone for a website and it does not take orders." Nine times out of ten, they bought design. That's a homepage, a logo and some product photos arranged nicely. What they needed was development. The difference matters.
Design is the shop window a buyer in Dhanmondi judges in two seconds before deciding your silk is worth the price. Development is the whole machine that runs the second they tap order. The bKash or Nagad payment is captured and tied to that order. The item drops out of stock, and you get an alert. The order lands in a panel, so you can hand the address to a courier without retyping it. A beautiful store that drops the order is not cheaper. It's a more expensive Facebook page.
Rajshahi is a special market to build for. A store that ignores that leaks money in ways the seller only spots three months in. This is silk city. Think of the silk house off Saheb Bazar, the saree and three-piece sellers in Boalia, and the handloom workshops toward Sapura. Almost none of that product's real demand is local.
The buyer who pays well is in Dhaka or Sylhet, or is family abroad ordering silk for an occasion. So your store has to sell cloth to someone who has never touched it, then ship it cleanly out of the city. Rajshahi is also an education hub. RU, RUET and the medical crowd form a live student market. They buy almost entirely on a mid-range Android over shaky 4G. Build for that buyer, with fast pages, a thumb-friendly checkout and COD they trust. Or watch them leave.
I am RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer who works with Rajshahi sellers. I have about five years of building the small to mid-size online stores Rajshahi runs on. I've built for a silk and saree seller losing Dhaka customers to glossier shops with worse cloth. I've built for a student clothing brand that lived in Facebook comments near campus. I've built for a Barind honey and dry mango seller who needed a store for a seasonal rush.
In every case, the win was never the homepage. It was the order pipeline behind it. I scope it, design it and write the checkout and payment logic myself. I test it from start to end on a real phone over a real network. Then I hand you an admin in Bangla you can run from behind the counter. No junior learning on your shop. No account manager repeating what you already said clearly the first time.
Development at this standard starts at 50,000 BDT. That's a real, launched store, not a demo that nags you to upgrade in ninety days. Tiers run 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT as your catalogue, order volume and automation grow. A fully custom build starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are the same for everyone: 50% advance to begin and 50% on launch.
The design-approval guarantee means I write no code until you've signed off on the look. There's a separate page if you only want the cost breakdown. This one is about what the build really is. The fair trade for a fair price is focus, not cut corners. You get one senior developer, a scope written down before we start, and no padded invoice for features you won't use this year.
Six parts of the machine I make sure are running before the launch invoice goes out. None show up in a pretty mockup. And each is where a cheap build quietly fails.
A real checkout captures the order, the address and the payment in one pass. Not a "message us to order" button that pushes the buyer back into Messenger. This is the biggest gap between a store that sells and a catalogue that just sits there.
bKash and Nagad are set up so each payment matches its order ID. Cash on delivery stays the default your buyers outside Dhaka still trust. No more checking screenshots against a chat thread at 11pm to see who paid.
When the last piece of a saree or a silk run sells, it goes out of stock on its own. You stop selling the same item twice between the counter and the website. Variants for colour, size and length are handled properly when your cloth needs them.
Address fields are split by division, district, thana and area. An order leaving Rajshahi is ready for Sundarban, Steadfast or RedX without your team rewriting it. It's built for a sender outside the capital, where pickup is a scheduled run.
Images are compressed and pages kept light. Your store opens in seconds on a mid-range Android over patchy Rajshahi 4G. That's the exact phone the RU and RUET student market buys on. A slow store loses the sale before the photo even shows.
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. Running 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 comes first, because the client can see and approve it. The checkout comes last, rushed. I work the other way around, and for a Rajshahi seller that matters. The homepage is the cheapest part to get right and the least likely to cost you a sale. The order pipeline is the hard, hidden part. That means checkout, payment capture, stock, the order panel and the courier-ready address. It's broken in most cheap stores I rescue.
So I design and prove that machine first. A buyer in Uttara can finish checkout on a phone in under a minute. The bKash payment lands tied to the right order. The item drops from stock. The order shows in a panel you can read on the same phone you sell from. Once that truly works, the storefront on top is the easy, fun part. There's also a Rajshahi twist that front-to-back builders always miss. This city ships outward. It doesn't deliver across town.
Most templates quietly assume the seller sits in Dhaka, with parcels fanning out from the capital. That shapes the shipping logic, the courier defaults and even the address form. For you, it's the opposite. Your real orders go to Dhaka, Sylhet, Chittagong and sometimes family abroad ordering silk. Pickup from Rajshahi is a scheduled courier run, not a rider ten minutes away. So clean, courier-ready addresses matter more, not less. I build the address form and order panel for a Rajshahi sender from the start.
What I leave out on purpose at 50,000 BDT is the heavy automation. That means courier API hooks, automated SMS, abandoned-cart recovery and multi-warehouse stock. That machinery earns its keep at high volume. But it sits idle while you win your first few hundred online buyers. That's the honest line between a serious build and an overbuilt one. Build the pipeline you'll use this year. Leave clean hooks for the automation you'll grow into when your order count asks for it.
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The questions Rajshahi sellers ask me before they pay the first 50%, answered straight, price first.
It starts at 50,000 BDT for a working store with real product pages, a checkout that captures orders, bKash, Nagad and cash on delivery, and courier-ready address fields. You also get automatic stock and an admin your team runs from a phone. Tiers run 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT, based on catalogue size, order volume and automation. A fully custom build starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are 50% advance and 50% on launch, and you test the working store first. A separate pricing page has the full breakdown.
Design is the look that makes a Dhaka buyer trust 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 matches that order. The item drops out of stock, you get an alert, and the order lands in a panel ready for a courier. Many cheap builds sell design and skip development. That's why so many sellers say their site looks fine but takes no orders. I build both, development first.
They are exactly who these stores serve. Product pages sell cloth to someone who has never walked into your shop. They show true colour and close-up zoom, with weave and length written out. A Dhaka buyer can finish checkout on a phone in under a minute. The address form and order panel are built for a sender in Rajshahi. So an order from Dhaka or Sylhet arrives ready for your courier, with no retyping. Reaching the out-of-city buyer is the whole point, not an add-on.
Mostly speed and trust. That crowd buys clothes, gadgets and books on mid-range Android phones. The 4G signal comes and goes around campus. So the store loads fast on a weak connection, and checkout takes a few thumb taps. Cash on delivery stays the default because students trust it. bKash and Nagad sit alongside for those who pay up front. Stock logic and simple coupons handle flash drops. Heavier promo automation can come on the 90,000 BDT tier when your volume justifies it.
It's built on a standard, well-supported stack. For a store this size, that's usually WordPress and WooCommerce. Hosting and the domain are registered in your name, not mine. You own all of it: the code, the admin, the content, and the customer and order data. No platform lock-in, no monthly ransom and no developer holding a key to your shop. If we ever part ways, you leave with a complete, working store, and I hand over every login. A rented store can be switched off.
Three to four weeks for the 50,000 BDT tier, from the day the 50% advance clears. That assumes you send product photos, prices and descriptions in the first week. Week one is design. Week two is approval and revisions. Week three is development and loading products. Week four is real phone testing and launch. After launch, I fix build faults for a short period. I also give your team a training walkthrough. New features are quoted as you need them, but small daily edits don't need me.
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