A web application development company in Chittagong should tell you exactly what it is building before you pay, not after.
I am RH Fardin, a one-person web application development company in Chittagong. I build the software that runs Chattogram firms once spreadsheets and WhatsApp stop coping. That means dashboards, customer and staff portals, order and stock systems, role-based logins and the workflow your team lives in. The scope is written down before money changes hands, and the price is fixed. The senior engineer who maps your process writes the backend and answers when it needs a change. From 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch.
Senior solo engineer with about 5 years building web apps for Bangladeshi businesses. Fixed scope, fixed price, code you own. Every screen approved before I build it. Direct on WhatsApp, paid by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
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Almost every growing business in Chattogram hits the same moment before calling a web application development company in Chittagong. One Excel file has slowly become the whole nervous system of the company. The owner started it years ago to track orders, stock or who owes what. Now three staff edit it and two versions float around on WhatsApp. Nobody is sure which is current. One wrong row near month-end costs real money.
At that point, you are not shopping for design. You are trying to move the most important part of your business off a file that one corrupted copy could wipe out. That is the real job. It is a software job, not a website job.
Many of these projects go wrong here, and the honest reason has nothing to do with code. It is scope. A firm says "I need a system." A vendor hears something different, and an advance gets paid. Three weeks in, you both find out you were describing two different things. The owner pictured a tool the field team could update from a godown in Agrabad. The vendor built a reporting screen for the office. Nobody wrote down what "system" meant, so there was nothing to check the build against.
I run my web application development company in Chittagong around fixing that failure. Before any money moves, we agree in writing on the exact screens and user roles. We agree on what data each screen holds and what counts as done. The scope is the contract. That one habit is why my projects ship instead of turning into a "bhai aro lagbe" argument.
Here is what makes the Chattogram brief specific, and why a vendor who only builds brochure sites usually fumbles it. This is a port economy. It runs on freight forwarding, C&F, indenting, import and export, commodity supply, and distribution fed by the docks at Agrabad and the trading houses around GEC and Khatunganj.
The software gaps are about operations. A shipment has to be visible to a customs agent, a warehouse and a buyer at once. Stock arrives by the container and has to match against orders and dues. A sales line and dozens of retailers need one truth instead of forty WhatsApp threads. Your users are clerks and field staff on mid-range Android phones, on GP or Banglalink 4G. Sometimes they stand inside a warehouse with one bar of signal.
An app that demos beautifully on office fibre but stalls in the godown has solved nothing. I build for the place the software is really used, not the place it is demoed. Pricing is fixed and the same whether your letterhead says Chittagong or Chattogram. 50,000 BDT is the floor for a focused tool: a login, a clean dashboard and one core workflow done properly. 90,000 BDT covers a multi-module app, such as an order or stock system with roles, records and reports.
1,50,000 BDT covers a deeper build with several user types, bKash or Nagad payments, a customer portal and data you can export. Fully custom software, like multi-warehouse logistics, multi-company dashboards or links to your accounts, starts from 3,00,000 BDT. It is always 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. You sign off every screen before I write the backend. The code, database and server end up in your name. There is no monthly "maintenance" fee that is really rent on your own software.
Six things decide if a web app runs your business for years or gets quietly dropped for Excel. All six are how I work from the 50,000 BDT tier. None are features held back for a premium quote.
Before you pay an advance, we agree on the exact screens, roles and data each one holds. The build is checked against that document. So there is no "this isn't what I meant" three weeks in. That is the most common way these projects fail in Chittagong.
On the first call, a senior engineer maps how your shipment, stock or order flow works. That same person writes the backend and fixes the bug next year. Nothing gets lost in a handoff from a salesman to a junior.
It is tested on a mid-range Android phone with one bar of 4G, like inside an Agrabad warehouse, not just on office wifi. If your clerk or field staff can't load it where they stand, the app is dead on arrival.
An app only works if the people who used the spreadsheet adopt it. I design screens around how your team already works. I keep data entry very simple. So the system gets used instead of skipped in favour of Excel.
Where the app touches money, bKash and Nagad come first. That covers retailer dues, customer checkout and payment confirmation, built around how buyers here pay from their phones. Card gateways are added only if you truly sell abroad.
Source code, database and server logins are handed over on launch in one document. Everything runs on accounts in your name. Fire me tomorrow and you keep the whole system. No lock-in and no hostage fee for your own software.
I see this pattern all the time with Chattogram firms. Instead of building, they sign up for a foreign SaaS tool, like an inventory app, a CRM or a project app. It is priced per user per month in dollars. It looks cheap on the pricing page. Then you add seats for the office and the field. The taka cost climbs every time the dollar moves.
Then you hit the wall. It doesn't understand a container arriving against advance dues. It can't show C&F status the way customs, the warehouse and the buyer need it. And it certainly doesn't take bKash. So your staff keep a side spreadsheet for what the tool can't do. Now you pay every month for software you still have to work around. Owning a web app built for your exact workflow is usually cheaper within two or three years than renting a generic one in dollars forever. And it truly fits.
Treat this as software, not a subscription. Hire someone who builds around your business, not one who bends it around a template. I keep this a one-engineer studio on purpose. You message me, and I map how your stock, shipments or orders really move. I design the screens and write the front end and the backend. I connect bKash or Nagad. And I am the one you reach when something needs changing after launch. I take one app project at a time.
The scope is fixed before you pay. You approve every screen before I write a line of backend. The price is locked at 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT, based on how many workflows and user types you need. You walk away owning all of it. Send me one paragraph on what your business is drowning in, plus a screenshot of the spreadsheet you want to retire. Within a day I will tell you honestly if I am the right fit, which tier suits it and exactly what that buys.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point. I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
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The floor is 50,000 BDT for a focused web app with a login, a dashboard and one core workflow. 90,000 BDT covers a multi-module app like an order or stock system with roles and reports. 1,50,000 BDT adds several user types, bKash or Nagad payments, a customer portal and exports. Fully custom software starts from 3,00,000 BDT. It is 50% advance and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank. I scope your real "koto taka" for web application development Chittagong BD for free.
Fair question. Here, "company" can mean a 30-person office or a Facebook page that vanishes after the advance. I'm upfront: this is a one-person studio. What makes it reliable is paper: a written scope and fixed price before you pay. The 50/50 split means you never pay it all before the app is live. On launch, the code, database and server go into your name. If I disappeared, you'd still own a working system any developer could continue. That paper trail is real protection.
A website tells people you exist. A web application runs part of your business, with logins, roles, a dashboard, live records and reports. Maybe you track shipments in email, match stock across Excel files or confirm retailer orders on WhatsApp at midnight. Then you need software that holds it as one source of truth. Some shops sell a Chattogram firm a WordPress site with a plugin and call it an "app". If it can't enforce roles and stay reliable as records grow, it isn't a web app.
We write the scope down before any money moves. Before you pay the advance, we agree on the exact screens, user roles, the data on each screen and what "done" means for each workflow. The build is checked against that document. So there is no week-three fight over what "a system" meant. You also approve every screen before I write the backend. A change on a diagram costs nothing. After launch, it costs a rebuild. Most abandoned web apps in Chittagong died from fuzzy scope, not bad code.
Yes, that is my core Chattogram work. Shipment and C&F tracking with live status across customs, warehouse and buyer. Stock that matches against orders and advance dues. Distributor and retailer order portals. Role-based dashboards for owners, office and field staff. I map how your business really moves first, with no generic template. It loads on a mid-range Android phone with weak 4G inside a godown, where staff use it. Tell me which workflow is breaking, and I'll scope the build and tier.
This is the real risk, and most vendors ignore it. A system only works if your spreadsheet users adopt it. So I design screens around how your team already works, not what is easy to code. I keep data entry fast, since every extra field is a reason to skip it, and it runs on cheap Android phones. If the app is slower or fussier than the old file, people quietly go around it. Adoption is a design problem, and I treat it as part of the job.
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