How pricing actually works
Why one Dhaka developer quotes 8,000 BDT and another quotes 2,00,000 — and which one you should worry about
The web development price in Dhaka has a strange spread. You can find someone on Facebook Marketplace offering a 'full website' for 8,000 taka, and you can find a Gulshan agency quoting 4,00,000 for almost the same brief. Both numbers are real, and both are dangerous if you do not understand what is behind them. The 8,000 taka quote is almost always a nulled WordPress theme, shared hosting from a reseller, no SSL setup, no backups, and a developer who disappears after the first month.
The 4,00,000 quote often includes a project manager, a junior designer, a junior developer, a QA person, and a sales commission — five layers of cost that have nothing to do with your actual website.
I work alone, by choice. I have been designing and building websites since 2020, and the price I quote is the price I charge — there is no account manager rate, no junior margin, no scope-creep upsell once you have already paid the advance. My web development pricing in Dhaka starts at 50,000 BDT for a 5-to-7-page business site with a proper CMS, mobile-first design, on-page SEO, contact forms wired to your email and WhatsApp, SSL, and a year of basic support. That is the floor. If anyone in Dhaka quotes you less and promises the same scope, ask them to put it in writing — most cannot.
Pricing also moves with what you actually need. A clean 5-page corporate brochure site is one number. A site with bKash and Nagad checkout, SSLCommerz integration, courier API for Pathao or Steadfast, inventory sync, and a customer login area is a completely different number. A custom dashboard with user roles, an admin panel, or a booking engine is yet another bracket. I would rather have one frank 30-minute call about your scope than send a generic price list that fits no one.
Payment is simple and standard for Bangladesh: 50% advance to start, 50% on launch. bKash, Nagad, bank transfer — whatever is easiest for you. There is a written design-approval guarantee: if you do not approve the homepage design, we keep iterating until you do, at no extra cost. The price you sign is the price you pay.
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