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How to read any web design quote in Chittagong before you pay the advance
Forget the headline number for a second - the price is rarely where you get burned in this city. You get burned in the things the quote does not say. Before you send an advance to anyone, ask five questions. First: how much advance, and why? A shop asking for the full amount upfront, or 80% before you have seen a single screen, is protecting itself, not you.
The fair structure is 50% to start and 50% on launch, after you have approved the design - which is exactly how I work, so your money is never sitting against a build you have not seen. Second: whose name is the domain and hosting in? Plenty of cheap builders register it in their own account so you cannot leave without paying a "transfer fee" later. Yours should be in your name from day one. Third: is hosting marked up?
Many quotes hide a fat annual margin in "hosting and maintenance" - I set it up at the provider's real cost, in your account, with no markup, and tell you the actual yearly figure.
Fourth, and this is the one that catches most Chattogram owners: who answers in month two? The 9,000-taka quote almost always comes from someone who disappears the moment the advance clears and stops replying after the second round of revisions - and you find out only when something breaks before a buyer meeting. With one senior operator, the person who built it is the person who picks up. Fifth: what is actually a real product at the bottom?
Below roughly 50,000 BDT, what is genuinely being sold is a recoloured nulled template, a contact form wired to an inbox nobody checks, and a page that crawls on the exact 4G your customers use near the port - and to anyone judging your business, a foreign buyer included, it reads as small and risky. That is why my floor is 50,000 BDT and not lower: it is honestly the least it costs to ship a site worth having here.
Run those five questions across every quote in your phone and the wild spread sorts itself - you stop comparing prices and start comparing what you are actually buying, which was the only fair comparison all along.
For context on where the published tiers land in plain terms: 50,000 BDT buys a focused, fast site of about five pages - home, about, what you do, one services or products page, and a contact line that reaches a real person - right for a showroom near GEC or a smaller trading or service firm. 90,000 BDT, where most growing firms settle, adds more service or product pages, a structured listing, a stronger enquiry flow and the early SEO groundwork to surface for "your trade + Chittagong" searches.
1,50,000 BDT is a serious working site - full Bangla and English, Bangla typography that does not break into boxes on older phones, deeper navigation, a downloadable company profile and buyer-facing sections - the tier most import-export and port-facing firms around Agrabad want. Beyond that, from 3,00,000 BDT, is genuinely custom: a blank-canvas build with custom functionality and an online catalogue that takes real orders or payment.
That is what fair web design chittagong bd pricing looks like written down - the number maps to the work, and nothing waits in the gaps to ambush you at launch.