Web app pricing in Dhanmondi
Why nobody in Dhanmondi can quote your web app over the phone
Picture the call you have probably already made. You describe a tool for your Dhanmondi business — students log in to see results, accounts logs in to chase fees, you log in to see who paid through bKash this week — and the person on the other end says 'web application? 80,000 taka, sir.' Run that brief past the next number on the list and you get six lakh. Same words from you, an eight-fold gap in the answer.
That is the moment most Dhanmondi owners give up and assume software pricing is rigged. It is not rigged; it is that a web application is invisible from the outside. A website you can almost price by eye. A web app's cost lives in the parts nobody sees: who logs in, what each of them is allowed to do, and what has to happen when money moves.
So I price it the only honest way — from a written scope, not a guess. Before any figure, I ask the questions that actually move the number. How many kinds of user log in, and does each see a different screen? Does it collect payment live through bKash or Nagad, or just record what the counter already took? Five users or five hundred? Does the admin need a dashboard they open from home at midnight to see the day's numbers? Every answer is hours, and the hours are taka.
By the end you do not get 'web application development price dhanmondi: 4,00,000' dropped from the ceiling — you get a breakdown where each line is a feature you asked for and can cut if the budget is tight.
The reason the number can stay honest is that there is no agency tax inside it. No project manager forwarding your messages, no salesman's commission, no second-floor office on Satmasjid Road charging you rent through the back of an invoice. You talk to the person writing the code, and you pay for the code. I have built web applications for Bangladeshi businesses for about five years, and I take a small number of projects at a time on purpose, so the price reflects real senior hours rather than a roomful of juniors marked up.
Here is the honest split, because it is the thing most 'web application development dhanmondi bd' searches get wrong. A marketing or brochure website — even a slick, fast, mobile-first one — starts at 50,000 BDT, with tiers at 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT by page count and finish. A true web application — login, a database, more than one user role, an admin panel, payment and SMS — is a custom build, and that starts from 3,00,000 BDT and climbs with scope.
That floor is not me being expensive; it is the point below which the only thing you can buy is a template with a login form glued on. Payment is always 50% advance by bank transfer or bKash, 50% on launch, with the design approved in writing before a single line of backend code is written.
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