In focus
Solo operator vs. a big Shopify agency in Dhanmondi - what you actually trade
Let me be honest about the real choice, because "company" can mean very different things on Satmasjid Road. A large agency gives you a brand name, an office you can visit, and the comfort of a team - and for that you pay agency overhead, you wait in a queue behind their bigger accounts, and you rarely talk to the person actually building your store.
A solo senior like me gives you direct access, faster decisions, lower cost and total accountability - the trade is that I take on a limited number of projects at a time, so I am honest about my calendar rather than promising everyone next week. For most Dhanmondi boutiques and skincare or food brands doing their first serious storefront, the direct line to one experienced builder beats a team you only ever meet through a project manager.
If you are a large multi-store enterprise needing five people working in parallel, I will tell you plainly that you are a better fit for an agency, and I would rather say so than oversell.
Here is how I price the work as a Dhanmondi Shopify store development company of one, no games. A focused single-category store on a properly customized premium theme - clean catalogue, bKash and Nagad checkout, cash on delivery and an admin panel you can run yourself - starts at 50,000 BDT. A serious multi-category Dhanmondi brand store with real category architecture, customer accounts, bilingual labels and a curated app stack sits at 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT.
A fully custom Shopify build with bespoke sections, advanced filtering and subscription or bundle logic starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are always 50% advance and 50% on launch, and you sign off the design on screen before a single line of Liquid is written. Anyone quoting far under 50,000 BDT for a real Shopify store in Dhanmondi is handing you a renamed free theme and will be gone before your first gateway question - which is exactly the "company" experience you were trying to avoid.