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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?", and they're right to. The trouble is the honest answer depends entirely on a thing nobody clarifies first: what you mean by "web application." To one person it's a smart website with a login and an enquiry form. To the next it's 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 actually need — because that single decision moves the web application development price in Chittagong 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, no asterisks. The floor is 50,000 BDT — a focused web app: a clean login, one dashboard, one core workflow built properly, with a bKash or Nagad number wired in. The 90,000 BDT tier is a multi-module app: an order or job-status system with user roles, records and the reports your staff actually open. The 1,50,000 BDT tier is a deeper build — multiple user types, a real bKash or Nagad payment flow, a customer-facing portal, exportable data.
Genuinely custom software — a freight or distribution system with multi-warehouse stock, multi-entity dashboards, integration with your existing accounts — starts from 3,00,000 BDT and rises with scope. Payment is always 50% advance and 50% on launch, and you sign off every screen before I write a line of backend.
Why a port-city brief lands where it does on that ladder is worth saying out loud, because it explains your figure. Most of Chattogram's real business runs off the docks — clearing and forwarding, indenting, import-export, commodity trade off Khatunganj, distribution pushing landed goods upcountry.
The web apps these firms actually need are operational: a C&F agent who wants live shipment status visible to staff and the buyer instead of a hundred email threads, an Agrabad importer whose stock lives in four Excel files that never agree, a distributor confirming retailer orders on WhatsApp at midnight.
That is real engineering — roles, state changes, data that has to stay trustworthy as it grows — which is exactly why a true trade system sits at the 3,00,000 BDT end and not at 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 genuinely small.
What I won't do is what a lot of the fast-quoters here do: name a number before I've understood the brief, then claw it back through endless "change requests" in month three. And if what you describe is honestly a website with a login rather than an application, I'll tell you so — that's my own 50,000 BDT floor, not a 3-lakh build dressed up.
I'd rather lose the job than sell you a tier you don't need, or squeeze a real shipment portal into a price that ships something half-built and dies before the next Eid rush. The figure below is for work I'll stand behind and still answer the phone about in month six. There's no office on GEC More, no sales layer, no project manager forwarding your WhatsApp to a junior — that stripped-out overhead is your discount, on the same senior work.
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