Shopify Store Development Price in Chittagong — the real number for a port-city seller, build cost plus the dollar fees nobody puts in the quote.
You import the stock through Chittagong port, you already sell on Facebook, and now you want a real Shopify store. So you ask the obvious question — koto taka? Here is a clean answer: fixed BDT tiers from 50,000, one senior who builds it himself, and a plain breakdown of where the money actually goes.
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You sell hardware brought in through the port, or saree lots, or imported cosmetics — and you have run the whole thing off a Facebook page and a bKash number for two years. Now the inbox is a mess, you cannot tell which SKU is actually moving, and you want a Shopify store. So you message four people and get four wildly different prices: 18,000 here, 45,000 there, 1,20,000 from someone in Dhaka. None of them tell you why. That gap is the whole problem with Shopify store development price in Chittagong — the number is meaningless until you know what is inside it.
Here is what almost nobody separates for you. There is the one-time fee to design and build the store — that is what I quote, and it starts at 50,000 BDT. Then there is Shopify's own monthly subscription, billed in US dollars to Shopify, not to me. Then there is the part that bites port-city sellers specifically: because Shopify Payments does not operate in Bangladesh, Shopify adds a small extra transaction fee on every order on top of your gateway's cut. A cheap quote that hides all of this is not cheap — it is just incomplete, and you find the rest out after launch.
My pricing is three fixed tiers: 50,000, 90,000, and 1,50,000 BDT, with fully custom work from 3,00,000 BDT. The tier you land on is driven by real things, not a mood. How big is your catalog — a tight 40-SKU import line is one build, a 900-product wholesale catalogue pulled straight off your port shipments is another. How heavy is your cash-on-delivery operation. Whether you need bKash and Nagad wired in beside cards, how your courier handoff works to Pathao or Steadfast or a local Agrabad rider. I quote against your actual store, then it does not move.
I am one senior operator with around five years on these builds — I design it, I build it, I wire the payments, I hand it to you. You are not paying an Agrabad-office overhead, a project manager, and a junior who learns Shopify on your store. You approve the design before I write a line of code, you pay 50% to start and 50% on launch, and the quote I give you on day one is the number — no surprise line item lands in your lap the week you go live.
Six things baked into every tier — the ones that decide whether a Chattogram store takes orders or just looks nice. Same priorities at 50,000 as at 1,50,000; the higher tiers add scale, not the basics.
My build fee is quoted and paid in taka — 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 — so a falling taka against the dollar never moves the number we agreed. Shopify's own monthly dollar fee is separate, and I tell you that figure up front, not after you sign.
Because Shopify Payments is not available in Bangladesh, Shopify charges an extra per-order transaction fee on top of your gateway. I show you that math on your expected order volume before you commit, so the running cost is never a launch-week shock.
Your buyers pay how a Chittagong buyer actually pays — bKash and Nagad set up properly, and cash-on-delivery treated as a first-class checkout, not an afterthought bolted on. Cards are there too for the diaspora and corporate orders.
Your tier is driven by your real product count. A focused import line of 40 SKUs is a different build from a 900-item wholesale catalogue off your port shipments — I price the store in front of me, so you are not paying for scale you do not have.
Port-city stores run heavy on cash-on-delivery and fake orders eat your margin. Every tier sets up order verification, partial-COD where it helps, and a clean courier handoff to Pathao, Steadfast or your local rider — built in, not extra.
The senior who quotes you is the one who designs, builds and launches the store. No agency markup, no juniors practising on your shop, no quote that quietly grows. 50% advance, 50% on launch, design approved before any code.
When you put two Shopify quotes side by side — say a 22,000 BDT one from a Facebook page and a 50,000 one from me — the right question is not which is cheaper, it is which one is actually a full store. The cheap quote almost always means a free theme with three colours swapped, your products dumped in with no structure, payments left for you to figure out, and zero thought given to how a COD order from Halishahar gets verified and shipped.
It looks like a store in a screenshot. It falls apart the first week real orders and real returns hit it. You then pay a second person to fix what the first one skipped, and the 'cheap' build ends up the expensive one.
So when you weigh up shopify store development price in Chittagong, push every quote to itemise four things: the build fee (one-time, in taka), Shopify's monthly subscription (in dollars, paid to Shopify), the extra Bangladesh transaction fee on each order, and exactly which payment methods and which courier are wired in at launch. Any honest quote can put all four in writing today. Mine can. If a quote cannot — if it is just one suspiciously round number and a promise — that is not a price, it is a guess you will pay for later. I would rather lose the job to a clear competitor than win it by hiding the real cost of running the store.
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Build cost starts at 50,000 BDT and goes up in fixed tiers — 50,000, 90,000, and 1,50,000 — with fully custom work from 3,00,000 BDT. That is the one-time fee I charge to design and build the store. Shopify's own monthly subscription is paid separately in US dollars to Shopify. Tell me your catalog size, how heavy your cash-on-delivery is, and which payments you need, and I will give you a firm tier — not a vague range.
Because they are quoting a different thing. An 18,000 build is almost always a free theme with the colours changed, products dumped in with no structure, and payments and courier setup left for you. For a Chittagong store running heavy COD, that is the half that decides whether you make money. My 50,000 floor is a designed store with bKash, Nagad and COD wired in, order verification, and a courier handoff that works. You can pay 18,000 now and pay someone else to redo it, or pay once.
No, and any honest quote says so. You pay me a one-time build fee in taka. Separately, you pay Shopify a monthly subscription in US dollars — that is Shopify's charge, not mine. And because Shopify Payments does not operate in Bangladesh, Shopify adds a small extra fee per order on top of your gateway's cut. I show you all of this on your expected order volume before you commit, so nothing about the running cost surprises you after launch.
Yes — catalog size is one of the main things that moves your tier. A tight 40-SKU import line is a quick build; a 600-to-900 item wholesale catalogue pulled off your port shipments needs proper collections, variants, bulk product setup and a structure buyers can actually search. That work is real, so it lands you in a higher tier. I quote against your actual catalog, then the number holds — I do not pad it and I do not discover 'extra' costs mid-build.
It can take bKash and Nagad, and it should — that is how most of your Chattogram buyers pay. Shopify's built-in card processor (Shopify Payments) is not available in Bangladesh, so I set up a local gateway plus bKash and Nagad, and I treat cash-on-delivery as a proper checkout option, not an afterthought. Cards stay available for diaspora and corporate orders. Buyers pay the way they already trust, which is the difference between a full cart and an abandoned one.
Fully remote, and it works cleanly. I am one senior operator, so you deal with the person actually building your store — over WhatsApp, calls and screen-share — not a front desk in Agrabad and a junior you never meet. You see the design and approve it before any code is written, you watch the store come together, and I train you in Bangla to run it after launch. Being in Chittagong while I build remotely changes nothing about the price or the result.
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