Shopify store development price in Chittagong: the real number for a port-city seller. That means the build cost plus the dollar fees nobody puts in the quote.
You import stock through Chittagong port and already sell on Facebook. 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 really goes.
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You sell hardware brought in through the port, or saree lots, or imported cosmetics. For two years you have run it all from a Facebook page and a bKash number. Now the inbox is a mess and you cannot tell which SKU is really moving, so you want a Shopify store. 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 explain why the Shopify store development price in Chittagong swings so much.
That gap is the whole problem. The number means nothing until you know what is inside it.
Here is what almost nobody separates for you. First, there is the one-time fee to design and build the store, which is what I quote, and it starts at 50,000 BDT. Second, there is Shopify's own monthly subscription, billed in US dollars to Shopify, not to me.
Third, there is the part that bites port-city sellers. Shopify Payments does not work in Bangladesh, so 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, just incomplete, and you find out the rest after launch.
My pricing has three fixed tiers: 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT, with fully custom work from 3,00,000 BDT. Real things decide your tier, not a mood. How big is your catalog? A tight 40-SKU import line is one build, and a 900-product wholesale catalogue pulled straight from your port shipments is another.
How heavy is your cash-on-delivery side? Do you need bKash and Nagad next to cards? How does your courier handoff work, to Pathao, Steadfast or a local Agrabad rider? I quote against your actual store, and then the number does not move.
I am one senior builder with about five years on these builds. I design it, build it, set up the payments and hand it over. You do not pay for an Agrabad office, a project manager or a junior learning Shopify on your store. You approve the design before I write a line of code, and you pay 50% to start and 50% on launch. 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 come built into every tier. They decide if a Chattogram store takes orders or just looks nice. The priorities are the same 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. 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.
Shopify Payments is not available in Bangladesh, so Shopify charges an extra fee on each order on top of your gateway. I show you that math on your expected order volume before you commit. The running cost is never a launch-week shock.
Your buyers pay the way a Chittagong buyer really pays. bKash and Nagad are set up properly. Cash on delivery is treated as a full checkout option, not an afterthought. Cards are there too, for the diaspora and corporate orders.
Your real product count drives your tier. A focused import line of 40 SKUs is a different build from a 900-item wholesale catalogue from your port shipments. I price the store in front of me, so you do not pay for scale you do not have.
Port-city stores lean heavily on cash on delivery, and fake orders eat your margin. Every tier sets up order checks, partial COD where it helps, and a clean courier handoff to Pathao, Steadfast or your local rider. It is 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 and no quote that quietly grows. 50% advance, 50% on launch, design approved before any code.
Put two Shopify quotes side by side. Say one is 22,000 BDT from a Facebook page and one is 50,000 from me. The right question is not which is cheaper, but which one is a full store. The cheap quote almost always means a free theme with three colours swapped and your products dumped in with no structure. Payments are left for you to figure out, and nobody has thought about how a COD order from Halishahar gets checked and shipped.
It looks like a store in a screenshot, then falls apart in the first week when real orders and real returns hit it. You pay a second person to fix what the first one skipped. The 'cheap' build ends up the expensive one.
So when you weigh up shopify store development price in Chittagong, ask every quote to list four things. The build fee, one-time and in taka. Shopify's monthly subscription, in dollars and paid to Shopify. The extra Bangladesh fee on each order. And exactly which payment methods and which courier are set up at launch.
Any honest quote can put all four in writing today. Mine can. What if a quote cannot, and it is just one suspiciously round number and a promise? Then it is not a price but 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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The build cost starts at 50,000 BDT and goes up in fixed tiers: 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000. Fully custom work starts 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. 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 and products dumped in with no structure. Payments and courier setup are left to you. For a Chittagong store with heavy COD, that is the half that decides if you make money. My 50,000 floor is a designed store with bKash, Nagad and COD set up, order checks and a courier handoff that works. 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, which is Shopify's charge, not mine. And because Shopify Payments does not work 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 wholesale catalogue of 600 to 900 items from your port shipments is bigger. It needs proper collections, variants, bulk product setup and a structure buyers can search. That work is real, so it puts you in a higher tier. I quote against your actual catalog and then the number holds. I do not pad it, and I do not find 'extra' costs mid-build.
It can take bKash and Nagad, and it should, because 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. 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, and that is the difference between a full cart and an abandoned one.
It is fully remote, and it works cleanly. I am one senior builder, so you deal with the person building your store. We talk over WhatsApp, calls and screen-share, not through a front desk in Agrabad and a junior you never meet. You see the design and approve it before any code is written, and you watch the store come together. After launch, I train you in Bangla to run it. Working remotely changes nothing about the price or the result.
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