Shopify pricing for Sylhet, in the open
Why one Shopify quote in Sylhet says 15,000 and the next says 3 lakh - and which number is honest for your store
The reason you cannot get a straight answer on shopify store development price in sylhet is that almost nobody quotes the same scope. The Facebook page offering 15,000 taka means they will drop a free theme on your store, paste a 'send bKash to this number' note, and walk away - no order-reference matching, no tested card checkout, no courier export. The Dhaka agency quoting 3 lakh means a junior builds it while a project manager you will never meet keeps the markup. Both are quoting a 'Shopify store'. Neither is quoting the same store. So before you compare prices, you have to compare what is actually inside the price - and that is what this page forces into the open.
Here is what makes Sylhet's pricing question different from Dhaka's or Chittagong's. A huge share of this city's buying power sits abroad - sons in the UK, brothers in the Gulf, families sending money and gifts home to Zindabazar, Ambarkhana, Uposhohor. That overseas buyer pays by card without thinking, the way they shop on every international site. A cheap Sylhet build only ever tests the local bKash note and never touches the card checkout, so the first probashi order fails silently and you never even learn you lost it.
That untested card flow is invisible on a quote, but it is exactly the half of the build that earns you money in this city. A price that skips it is not cheaper - it is incomplete, and the gap shows up as orders you never see.
So here is my pricing in plain numbers, no 'contact for quote' games. 50,000 BDT is the floor: a focused store, bKash and Nagad wired into checkout with order matching, COD set as the default and confirmable in your admin, Shopify's card checkout tested and live for buyers abroad, up to 30 products loaded by me, courier-ready order export and a self-manage dashboard. 90,000 BDT moves you up to a larger catalogue with collections, filters and abandoned-cart recovery.
1,50,000 BDT is a deeper custom theme and a bigger store. Anything genuinely custom - heavy Liquid work, custom apps, multi-currency tuning, inventory or ERP sync - starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Every tier is a fixed number agreed before I start, 50% advance and 50% on launch.
One thing I will always say out loud, because most people quoting shopify store development price sylhet will not: Shopify is not free to run. Its monthly subscription and any paid apps are billed by Shopify itself, in USD, separate from my fee. For a Sylhet seller with real overseas demand that monthly dollar cost is worth it, because the card checkout it unlocks is the thing your probashi buyers need.
But if your budget is genuinely under 50,000 BDT, I will tell you straight - stay on Facebook plus bKash and save up, or start on a leaner platform. Putting a thin store on Shopify just means paying rent in dollars on something that does not yet earn. I would rather lose the sale than sell you the wrong platform.
See pricing in BDT