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Shopify Store Development in Sylhet

Shopify store development in Sylhet, done the way a real build is done: I read how your Facebook page actually sells, I architect the theme around your products, I write the Liquid, I wire bKash, Nagad and cash-on-delivery in by hand, and I test the whole thing on a real mid-range Android over Sylhet mobile data before you ever see it. I am RH Fardin — one senior developer who designs, codes and ships the entire store.

No agency floor, no junior practising on your live shop, no reseller marking up someone else's work. Builds start at 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch, and you sign off the design on screen before I write a single line of development code.

~5 years building stores for Bangladeshi sellers. One operator, kickoff to launch in roughly two weeks. 50,000 BDT floor, design-approval guarantee, pay by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.

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Shopify store development Sylhet

A Shopify store is 20% theme and 80% the decisions a template never makes for you

Most Shopify quotes in Sylhet are really quotes for a theme install — pick a demo from the gallery, swap the logo, paste a few products, hand it over. That is the easy 20%, and it is the part anyone can do.

The 80% that decides whether the store earns back its 50,000 BDT is every decision the template refuses to make for you: which payment your buyer reaches for first, where the delivery charge appears before someone asks, how a parcel leaving Zindabazar gets onto a courier without your team retyping the address at 8am, and how fast the product page opens for a buyer holding a four-year-old Android on a one-bar signal near Ambarkhana. I build the store around those decisions.

That is what "shopify store development in sylhet" should mean, and it is the work the demo-and-disappear crowd skips.

Before I touch a theme, I read your existing Facebook page the way a buyer reads it. The "koto taka?" that lands before anyone says hello. The "delivery charge koto?" two messages later. The COD-versus-bKash split. The " Sylhet er baire pathano jabe?" — because in this city a real share of orders go out, not across town. The "is the satkora fresh?" and "weight koto?" on a food order, or the "original to?" on a boutique piece.

Those questions are your sales script, and they become the spine of the build: which trust signals sit above the fold, which answers live on the product page so the store closes instead of routing every question back to your inbox, how the checkout is worded in plain bilingual language. A developer who has never sold to a Sylheti buyer architects the store backwards, and you feel it in every order you lose.

Sylhet also changes the technical build in ways the rest of Bangladesh does not. This is the highest remittance region in the country, which means a meaningful slice of your demand is a son in London or a brother in the Gulf sending a gift to a parent's door in Subid Bazar — and that buyer wants to tap a card, not negotiate a bKash number at midnight.

So the development job is genuinely two-sided: bKash, Nagad and cash-on-delivery wired in through a proper flow for the local buyer, and Shopify's own international card checkout tested and left live the way an overseas card would actually hit it. Then there is the part nobody warns you about — Shopify has no native bKash or Nagad, Shopify Payments is not available in Bangladesh, and Shopify bills its monthly plan in US dollars.

None of that is a dealbreaker; all of it is real development and configuration work I do by hand, and I price and explain it plainly up front.

I take a deliberately small number of Shopify projects so each one gets real senior attention, and the pricing is the same for everyone regardless of how prosperous you sound on the call. A focused store on a customised premium theme — real product pages, bKash and Nagad plus COD, courier-ready nationwide address fields, an admin your own team can run — starts at 50,000 BDT.

A typical multi-collection Sylhet brand build with collections, filters and automation lands at 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT as your range grows, and a fully custom Shopify build with heavy Liquid work starts at 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are 50% advance to begin and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer, with a design-approval guarantee: I do not write a line of development code until you have signed off the look on screen.

Kickoff to launch is roughly two weeks for a standard build, and the whole thing runs remotely on call, WhatsApp and screen-share — no office visit needed.

See pricing in BDT

What's included

What goes into a Shopify build that actually performs in Sylhet

Six things I do on every Shopify store development project in Sylhet — each one a decision the template-and-disappear builders quietly leave on default, and each one chosen for how this city really trades.

01

Hand-Coded Theme

Not a demo with your logo dropped on top. I architect the theme around your actual products and edit the Liquid directly — section order, product layout, trust signals — so the store fits how you sell, not how a foreign demo seller did.

02

bKash, Nagad, COD

Shopify has none of these natively. I wire bKash and Nagad in through a Bangladesh-supported gateway or a clean manual flow, set COD as the default the way Sylhet buyers order, and match transactions to orders inside your admin.

03

Probashi Card Tested

Sylhet's diaspora buyers pay by card. I test Shopify's international card checkout the way an overseas card actually hits it and leave it live, so a son in London can pay for a gift to Ambarkhana in seconds — the flow cheap builds never check.

04

Built To Ship Out

Real Sylhet orders leave the city. Address fields split by division, district, thana and area, shipping zones for inside-city versus out-of-Sylhet, and order export so a parcel is Pathao, Steadfast or SA Paribahan-ready without manual retyping.

05

Tested On 4G Phones

Checked on a real mid-range Android over Sylhet mobile data, not just my desktop. Images compressed, fonts loaded lean, tap targets sized for a thumb, so the product page opens in seconds for a buyer on one bar, not just on office Wi-Fi.

06

USD Bill Explained

Shopify bills its monthly plan in US dollars on an international card. I lay out the real running cost before you commit and keep the app stack lean, so no surprise dollar charge lands after launch and no twelve paid apps quietly drain your margin.

In focus

Migrating off the Facebook page: what the development actually involves

Almost every Sylhet seller who hires me is leaving a Facebook page behind, not replacing an old website — and that migration is most of the real work. Your inventory lives in album captions and your head; your prices live in comment replies; your order history lives in Messenger threads. So the build starts with turning that into structure: every product loaded with proper photos, BDT pricing, variants for size, weight or quantity, honest stock counts, and descriptions that answer the questions your DMs answer fifty times a day.

For a tea, satkora, naga or dried-fish seller that means weight, packing and freshness spelled out on the page; for a boutique it means fabric, fit and authenticity up front. This is slow, unglamorous development work, and it is exactly the part a 15,000-taka installer skips by pasting three products and calling it a store. I load your real catalogue myself because the product page is where the sale is won, not the homepage banner.

Then comes the wiring that makes Shopify behave like it was built for Sylhet instead of San Francisco. I configure the payment flow so a local buyer sees COD first and a clear bKash and Nagad option with the right merchant number and order reference, while the probashi buyer abroad gets a tested card checkout that does not die at the last step. I split the shipping zones for inside-city Zindabazar, Ambarkhana and Uposhohor against out-of-Sylhet and the rest of Bangladesh at your real rates.

I build the address form and order panel so your team can hand a parcel to a courier without re-keying anything, set up GA4 and the Meta Pixel so you can actually see what your ads do, and add a Messenger fallback for the buyer who still wants to ask koto taka first.

Finally I QA the whole store on a real phone over mobile data — the local checkout and the overseas card checkout both — before it goes live on your domain, then sit with you for a training call so you run the admin from your phone. That sequence, done by hand, is the difference between a store that photographs well for a portfolio and one that genuinely earns back its 50,000 BDT out of Sylhet inside the first quarter.

Investment

Pricing in BDT — no mystery.

Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point — I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.

Every project starts at ৳50,000

Starter

Starter Website

A sharp, credible site that makes the right first impression and brings enquiries.

50,000/ from
  • Up to 4 custom pages
  • Mobile-first responsive design
  • On-page SEO setup
  • Contact form + WhatsApp
  • Live in ~2 weeks
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Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra

Ecommerce

Ecommerce Store

An online store built to sell and scale.

1,50,000/ from
  • Shopify or WooCommerce
  • Product, cart & checkout
  • bKash / SSLCOMMERZ + delivery
  • SEO-ready product pages
  • Launch QA + training
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Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra

Design-approval guarantee. You approve the design first, and you only pay the second half once your site is live and you're happy.

Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or send an email.

Frequently asked

Straight answers before we build.

Straight answers to what Sylhet sellers actually ask before sending the 50% advance on a Shopify build. In BDT, no agency spin.

Shopify store development Sylhet-e koto taka? What does a build really cost?

My Shopify builds start at 50,000 BDT for a focused store on a customised premium theme — real product pages, bKash and Nagad plus cash-on-delivery, courier-ready nationwide address fields, and an admin your team can run. A typical multi-collection Sylhet brand store with collections, filters and automation sits at 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT, and a fully custom Shopify build with heavy Liquid work starts from 3,00,000 BDT. Terms are 50% advance to begin and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.

One thing to settle up front: Shopify's own monthly plan is billed by Shopify in US dollars and is separate from my build fee — I explain that running cost plainly so nothing surprises you on a card after launch.

How long does a Shopify store development project in Sylhet take?

A standard build runs roughly two weeks from kickoff to a live store on your domain, assuming you get me your product photos, prices and content without long gaps. The sequence is fixed: discovery and reading your Facebook page first, then design that you sign off on screen, then development — theme architecture, Liquid, loading your real products, payment and courier wiring, GA4 and Pixel — then QA on a real Sylhet phone over mobile data, then launch and a training call.

A larger multi-collection store at 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT, or a custom build from 3,00,000 BDT, takes longer because there is genuinely more to build and test. I will give you an honest timeline on the first call, not a number designed to win the job.

Can you migrate my Facebook shop into a Shopify store?

Yes — that is the most common project I do for Sylhet sellers, and the migration is most of the work. Your inventory, prices and order history live in album captions, comment replies and Messenger threads, so I turn that into real structure: every product loaded with proper photos, BDT pricing, variants for size, weight or quantity, honest stock, and descriptions that answer the questions your DMs handle all day. I load your real catalogue myself rather than handing you an empty store.

I also keep your Facebook and Instagram selling alongside the new store, wire the Meta Pixel so your ads track properly, and add a Messenger fallback for the buyer who wants to ask koto taka before they buy. You are not abandoning the page; you are giving it a real checkout behind it.

Shopify has no bKash or Nagad — so how do my Sylhet buyers actually pay?

Correct, and it is the single biggest gap for any Bangladeshi store. Shopify Payments is not available in Bangladesh and bKash, Nagad and Rocket do not plug in as native gateways. So I wire them in by hand: bKash and Nagad through a Bangladesh-supported gateway such as ShurjoPay, AamarPay or SSLCommerz, or a clean manual flow that shows your merchant number with an order reference at the right moment and matches transactions to orders in your admin.

Cash-on-delivery is built in and set as the default, because a buyer outside the big metros still trusts COD first. And Shopify's own checkout still takes international cards — which is exactly what makes it good for your probashi family abroad. So your store ends up taking bKash, Nagad, COD and cards, just not all of them out of the box.

Half my buyers are family abroad — will the development handle probashi card orders?

Yes, and in Sylhet specifically that is half the point of building on Shopify. This is the highest remittance region in Bangladesh, so a real share of your demand is a son in London or a brother in the Gulf sending a gift to a parent in Subid Bazar or Ambarkhana — and that buyer wants to tap a card, not learn a bKash flow.

One store serves both: the local buyer gets COD as the default plus bKash and Nagad, and the overseas buyer gets Shopify's native card checkout, which is genuinely good at cross-border payments. I test that card flow the way an overseas card actually hits it and leave it live, because the probashi gift-order is precisely the one a cheap build silently breaks and you never even hear that you lost it.

Do you do the development remotely, or do I need to meet you in Sylhet?

It runs remotely, end to end — discovery, design sign-off, development, QA and the training call all happen over phone, video and screen-share, and I work with sellers across Sylhet and the rest of Bangladesh this way. The difference from an agency is that you deal with the one person who designs, codes and ships the whole store, not a sales rep who hands you to a junior after you sign.

You approve the design on screen before any development begins, and after launch you reach me directly to change a price, add a product or check the checkout. For larger builds from 90,000 BDT I am happy to come to your premises around Zindabazar, Ambarkhana or the wider Sylhet area for kickoff and final sign-off if you would rather do it in person.

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