Shopify is the easy part. Making it work for a Bangladeshi customer who wants cash on delivery and pays attention to nothing but the phone screen — that's the part most people get wrong.
I'm RH Fardin. I build Shopify stores for Bangladeshi sellers myself — the theme, the product setup, cash-on-delivery and bKash/Nagad checkout, the courier and order flow, and a storefront that loads fast on mobile data. No agency, no juniors. Shopify store development starts at 50,000 BDT, agreed before I begin.
5 years building sites · Shopify stores from 50,000 BDT · COD + bKash/Nagad checkout · 50% advance, 50% on launch
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Shopify is a brilliant platform built mostly for the US and Europe — and that's exactly why most Shopify stores in Bangladesh feel slightly off. The default checkout assumes a card. The default payment assumes Stripe or PayPal, neither of which works cleanly here. The default shipping assumes a courier API that doesn't know what Pathao or Steadfast is. When someone searches for Shopify store development in BD, what they actually need isn't a developer who can install a theme — anyone can do that — it's someone who knows how a Bangladeshi customer buys and rebuilds the store around that reality.
Here, the customer is on a phone, scrolling Facebook, and they want three things before they trust you with money: a price they can see, cash on delivery as an option, and proof you're real. So I build Shopify stores where cash on delivery is front and centre, not buried; where bKash and Nagad are wired in through a local gateway like SSLCOMMERZ or aamarPay so the customer pays the way they already pay; and where the whole thing loads fast enough on mobile data that nobody bounces before the page paints. The Shopify admin stays clean and usable, so you can add products and fulfil orders yourself without calling me every week.
I'm one person and I do all of it. I pick or customise the theme, structure your collections and products, set up the COD and digital-payment flow, connect the courier and order workflow, sort the mobile experience, get the speed right and launch it. Shopify's strength is that the platform handles hosting, security and updates for you — so the work is in the setup and the storefront, and that's where one careful senior hand makes the difference between a store that converts and a store that just exists.
I've spent around five years building sites and stores for Bangladeshi businesses. With Shopify specifically, the people who come to me are usually one of two: a seller who's outgrown selling through Facebook comments and DMs and wants a real store, or someone who paid for a Shopify store that looks fine but doesn't sell, because whoever built it never thought about COD, courier flow, or how a BD customer behaves. Both problems are fixable, and neither requires a huge budget — it requires someone who has actually shipped stores into this market.
Shopify hides a lot of complexity, but the parts that decide whether you make sales are all in the setup. Here's where your money goes when one person who knows the BD market builds the whole store.
Cash on delivery is how most of Bangladesh buys online. I set it up as a first-class checkout option with order confirmation, not a buried afterthought that loses you sales.
I wire in a local gateway — SSLCOMMERZ or aamarPay — so customers pay by bKash, Nagad, card or mobile banking. Shopify's default payment options don't cover BD; this does.
Your order and fulfilment workflow is set up around how you actually ship — Pathao, Steadfast or your own delivery — so processing orders doesn't become a daily mess.
Your customer is on a phone on Facebook, not a desktop. I tune the theme and images so the store loads quickly on mobile data — the moment that decides whether they stay.
I leave you a clean Shopify admin so you add products, run sales and fulfil orders yourself. No paying a developer every time you launch a new item.
I design, build, wire up payments and launch the whole store myself. Nothing gets handed to a junior who's never set up COD or a BD courier in their life.
Before you commit to Shopify, it's worth being honest about the trade-off, because a lot of BD sellers aren't told it. Shopify charges a monthly subscription in US dollars — you'll pay that every month, billed to a card, on top of the build. In exchange you get hosting, security, automatic updates and a platform that almost never breaks, so you never deal with a hacked site or a server going down during a campaign.
WooCommerce, by contrast, has no monthly platform fee — you only pay for hosting — but you own the maintenance, updates and security yourself. For a seller who wants to focus on selling and not on tech, Shopify is often the calmer choice. For someone running on a tight monthly budget who's comfortable with a bit more upkeep, WooCommerce can be cheaper to own over time. I build both, and I'll tell you straight which one fits your situation instead of pushing the one that's easier for me.
On the build itself: the first question is always "Shopify store banate koto taka lagbe?" My floor is 50,000 BDT, and for a focused store — a clean theme set up properly, your products and collections structured, COD and a bKash/Nagad gateway wired in, courier flow sorted and the whole thing fast on mobile — that's genuinely enough to launch and start selling.
90,000 BDT is where most growing stores land: more products, custom theme work, better collection structure, a blog for SEO, and a more refined checkout and storefront. 1,50,000 BDT is the full treatment — heavier customisation, custom sections, deeper SEO and a store built to scale with a bigger catalogue. Anything genuinely custom — a Shopify app, complex multi-vendor logic, a large migration — starts at 3,00,000 BDT and we scope it together.
The monthly Shopify subscription is separate and paid directly to Shopify; I'll help you pick the right plan so you're not overpaying for features you don't need yet.
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
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Straight answers to what Bangladeshi sellers actually ask before paying for a Shopify store.
50,000 BDT is the floor for a focused, properly set-up Shopify store — clean theme, your products and collections structured, COD plus a bKash/Nagad gateway wired in, courier flow sorted and fast on mobile. Growing stores with more products, custom theme work and a blog usually land at 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT. Fully custom builds start at 3,00,000 BDT. The monthly Shopify subscription is separate and paid to Shopify directly. You get the exact build figure before we start.
Yes — and that's exactly the part most people get wrong. Shopify's built-in payment options don't cover Bangladesh, so I connect a local gateway like SSLCOMMERZ or aamarPay. That brings in bKash, Nagad, card and mobile banking through Shopify's checkout. I also set up cash on delivery as a proper option, because that's still how most of your customers will want to pay.
Shopify charges a monthly fee in dollars but handles hosting, security and updates for you, so nothing breaks and you just sell. WooCommerce has no monthly platform fee — you only pay hosting — but you own maintenance and security yourself. If you want it calm and hands-off, Shopify. If you're on a tight monthly budget and don't mind more upkeep, WooCommerce. I build both and will tell you honestly which fits you.
Yes. COD is set up as a first-class checkout option with order confirmation so you don't get flooded with fake orders. I build your fulfilment flow around how you actually ship — whether that's Pathao, Steadfast or your own delivery — so processing and tracking orders fits your real workflow instead of fighting it.
Yes — Shopify's subscription is billed monthly in US dollars to a card, and that's separate from what you pay me for the build. It's the trade-off for never dealing with hosting or security yourself. I'll help you pick the right Shopify plan so you start on the cheapest one that covers your needs and only move up when your volume actually justifies it.
I'm one person — RH Fardin — and I do all of it myself: theme, products, COD and bKash/Nagad setup, courier flow, mobile, speed and launch. No agency, no juniors, no account manager in between. You pay 50% to start and 50% when the store is live and you're happy, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, and you talk to the person actually building your store throughout.
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