What a Shopify store actually costs in Bangladesh — and why some quotes are 30,000 BDT while others are 3,00,000 BDT
I am RH Fardin, a senior solo designer and developer. I personally build Shopify stores for businesses across Bangladesh — from first-time brands launching with one product line to established sellers migrating off Facebook-only selling. On this page I will show you my real Shopify price tiers, what each one includes, and what makes a quote go up or down. No vague "contact for price" runaround.
Price floor 50,000 BDT. Senior tiers 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT. Custom Shopify builds from 3,00,000 BDT. 50% advance, 50% on launch. Design-approval guarantee — you sign off before I touch a line of code.
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The first thing most business owners ask me is some version of "Shopify store er koto taka?" — and the honest answer is that the number depends on three things: which Shopify plan you choose, which theme route we take, and how much custom work you actually need. The platform fee from Shopify itself starts around 27 USD per month for the Basic plan (paid in USD to Shopify), and on top of that you pay a one-time fee to the person building the store.
The build fee in Bangladesh ranges from 30,000 BDT for a copy-paste template job to 5,00,000+ BDT for a fully custom Liquid build with custom apps. My own floor is 50,000 BDT for a reason I explain below.
When you see a 25,000 BDT Shopify quote on Facebook, what you are almost always buying is: a free Dawn theme installed, your logo dropped in, 5-10 products copy-pasted from your spreadsheet, and a handover. No real product photography direction, no thinking about your category page layout, no setup of cash-on-delivery for Bangladesh customers, no abandoned-cart flow, no proper SEO setup. The store technically exists. It almost never sells. Within 60 days the same owner is paying someone else 90,000 BDT to fix it.
My tiers are priced for actual outcomes, not just "a store that loads." The 50,000 BDT tier is a small-catalogue Shopify store on a paid premium theme (Impulse, Prestige, or similar — your one-time theme licence cost goes through you so you own it), set up properly with COD plus bKash/Nagad checkout instructions, working product taxonomy, mobile-first product cards, and basic on-page SEO. The 90,000 BDT and 1,50,000 BDT tiers add depth — more products, custom sections, conversion-focused homepage and product page design, integrated reviews, shipping rate logic for inside Dhaka vs outside Dhaka, and proper Google Analytics and Meta Pixel setup so your ads can actually optimise.
Custom Shopify development from 3,00,000 BDT is a different conversation altogether — that is where we go into custom Liquid sections, bespoke theme architecture, multi-currency for export brands, custom app integrations (your own warehouse system, a custom courier API like Pathao or Steadfast, a B2B portal), and the kind of build that genuinely supports a brand doing 50 lakh+ taka a month. I will tell you honestly which tier you actually need within the first call — not the most expensive one I can sell you.
Every Shopify tier below is built by me personally — same hands, same standards. The price changes because the scope changes, not because the quality changes.
All tiers from 50,000 BDT use a properly licensed paid theme (the theme cost is your one-time purchase, around 350 USD, which stays with your store forever). No free-theme limitations.
Cash-on-delivery enabled by default for Dhaka and outside-Dhaka zones, plus clear bKash/Nagad payment instructions on checkout and order-confirmation pages — built for how Bangladeshi customers actually pay.
Over 80% of your shoppers will be on a phone. Product cards, image galleries, size pickers and Add-to-Cart are tuned for thumb-reach and 4G load speeds — not desktop-first templates retrofitted to mobile.
Homepage hero, category collections, social proof, trust signals and product page layout are sequenced for buying decisions — not just "sections that look pretty in the demo." This is what separates a 50,000 BDT store from a 25,000 BDT one.
Different shipping rates and delivery times for Dhaka city, Dhaka outside, and other districts — set up correctly inside Shopify so your customers see accurate totals before they hit Place Order.
Google Analytics 4 and Meta Pixel installed and tested with the Shopify integration, with key events (add to cart, initiate checkout, purchase) firing properly so your Facebook ads can actually optimise for sales.
Five things move my Shopify price within a tier: product count, custom design depth, custom apps or integrations, content (copywriting and image work), and your Shopify plan. A 30-product store costs about the same to build as a 60-product store if your product data is clean in a spreadsheet — I import in bulk. But a 200-product store with variant images and 4 collections of category-specific filters genuinely takes another 10-15 hours of work, and that lifts a 50,000 BDT job to the 90,000 BDT tier.
Custom design depth means: do you want my best work on a premium theme with 4-5 customised sections, or do you want every section custom-designed to your brand from scratch? The first is 50,000-1,50,000 BDT. The second crosses into the 3,00,000 BDT+ custom tier because it is genuine theme development, not theme configuration.
Custom apps and integrations are the biggest swing factor and the one quote-shoppers consistently miss. A standard Shopify store uses standard Shopify apps — Judge.me for reviews, Klaviyo for email, a courier app for shipping. Those I set up inside the existing tier.
But if you need a custom Pathao Merchant API integration that auto-pushes orders to your courier dashboard, or a custom Bangla SMS notification flow through SSL Wireless, or a B2B price list that shows different prices to logged-in wholesale customers — every one of those is a separate development scope, and the honest price will reflect it. I will quote you each one as a line item, not hide it inside a vague "custom Shopify development" number that explodes by milestone 2.
The right way to read any Shopify quote in Bangladesh is to ask exactly what is in scope and what is out of scope — if the seller cannot answer that crisply in a 10-minute call, the price you see is not the price you will pay.
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The real Shopify pricing questions Bangladeshi business owners ask me — answered straight.
My tiers are 50,000 BDT (small-catalogue launch on a premium theme), 90,000 BDT (deeper conversion design, more product handling, full BD shipping/payment setup), and 1,50,000 BDT (larger catalogue, advanced sections, custom collection logic, full analytics and integrations). Custom Shopify builds with bespoke Liquid development start from 3,00,000 BDT. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch. Shopify's own monthly plan fee (from around 27 USD/month for Basic) is paid separately by you directly to Shopify.
Because at 25,000-30,000 BDT nobody can afford to actually design and configure a store properly — the only way the math works is to install a free theme, dump in your products, and walk away. That is exactly why those stores rarely convert and almost always need a rebuild within a year. My 50,000 BDT floor reflects the actual time it takes one experienced person to set up a Shopify store that is genuinely ready to take orders in Bangladesh — premium theme, real homepage design, proper product pages, COD plus bKash/Nagad setup, shipping zones, analytics. You are paying for the difference between "a store exists" and "a store sells."
Yes. Shopify charges its monthly platform fee directly to you in USD — Basic plan is around 27 USD/month, Shopify plan around 79 USD/month, Advanced around 299 USD/month, and Shopify Starter around 5 USD/month if you only need a buy-button setup. My build fee (50,000 BDT and up) is a one-time charge for design, development and launch. You will need an internationally-enabled card to pay Shopify — most of my clients use a dual-currency credit card from EBL, City Bank, or Brac Bank. I will walk you through the Shopify plan choice in our first call so you do not overpay.
For most new Bangladeshi brands launching with under 50 products and under 10 lakh BDT monthly revenue, Basic at 27 USD/month is correct — you can always upgrade in one click later. Upgrade to the Shopify plan (79 USD/month) when you start needing professional reports, lower transaction fees, or 5 staff accounts. Skip Shopify Starter for a full store — it is only for social commerce. I do not earn anything from Shopify for recommending plans, so my advice is based on what actually saves you money.
Not natively — Shopify Payments is not yet available in Bangladesh, and bKash/Nagad do not have an official Shopify integration. What I set up is the practical workaround that most successful BD Shopify stores use: Cash-on-Delivery as the primary checkout option, with clear instructions for bKash/Nagad pay-now (using your business account number) shown on the checkout and order-confirmation page, and orders marked paid manually once you receive payment. For higher-volume stores I can integrate SSL Commerz or 2Checkout to support card payments. We will pick the right setup for your stage in our first call.
The 50,000 BDT tier typically takes 10-14 working days from approved design to launch. The 90,000 BDT and 1,50,000 BDT tiers take 18-25 working days because there are more products to import properly and more custom sections to design. Custom Shopify builds from 3,00,000 BDT take 6-10 weeks depending on the integrations involved. Two things slow projects down — late product photography from your side, and back-and-forth on the design after approval. I keep timelines tight by locking design first (with the design-approval guarantee) and only writing code after you sign off.
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