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The reason web app quotes in Chittagong swing so wildly, and where your real number sits
Almost every Chattogram owner who messages me opens with "koto taka?" They are right to ask. But the honest web application development price in Chittagong depends on one thing nobody clarifies first. What do you mean by "web application"? To one person, it is a smart website with a login and an enquiry form. To the next, it is a full shipment-tracking portal with roles, live status and reports.
Those are not the same product, and they are nowhere near the same price. So before I quote anyone, I pin down which one they really need. That one choice moves the price from the 50,000 BDT floor to the 3,00,000 BDT custom range. Get the label right, and the number stops being a mystery.
Here is the ladder in plain taka, with no asterisks. The floor is 50,000 BDT for a focused web app. It has a clean login, one dashboard and one core workflow built properly, with a bKash or Nagad number added. The 90,000 BDT tier is an app with several modules. Think of an order or job-status system with user roles, records and the reports your staff really open.
The 1,50,000 BDT tier is a deeper build. It has several user types, a real bKash or Nagad payment flow, a customer portal and data you can export. Truly custom software starts from 3,00,000 BDT and rises with scope. Think of a freight or distribution system with stock across many warehouses, dashboards for several companies and links to your accounts. Payment is always 50% upfront and 50% on launch. You sign off every screen before I write any backend code.
Why does a port-city brief land where it does on that ladder? Most of Chattogram's real business runs off the docks. That means clearing and forwarding, indenting, import-export, commodity trade off Khatunganj and distribution of landed goods upcountry. The web apps these firms need are working tools. A C&F agent wants live shipment status visible to staff and buyers, instead of a hundred email threads.
An Agrabad importer keeps stock in four Excel files that never agree. A distributor confirms retailer orders on WhatsApp at midnight. That is real engineering, with roles, status changes and data that must stay reliable as it grows. That is why a true trade system sits at the 3,00,000 BDT end. It is not the 40,000-taka number a template seller near New Market will throw at you. The price is high where the work is real and low where the scope is truly small.
Many fast-quoters here name a number before they understand the brief. Then they claw it back through endless "change requests" in month three. I will not do that. If what you describe is really a website with a login, I will tell you so. That is my own 50,000 BDT floor, not a 3-lakh build dressed up.
I would rather lose the job than sell you a tier you do not need. I also will not squeeze a real shipment portal into a price that ships something half-built and dies before the next Eid rush. My figure is for work I will stand behind and still answer the phone about in month six. There is no office rent, no sales layer and no project manager forwarding your WhatsApp to a junior. That missing overhead is your discount, on the same senior work.
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