In focus
What actually drives web development cost in Mirpur (the real line items)
Every honest quote in Mirpur breaks down into the same six cost drivers. First, page count and complexity — a 5-page brochure site is 50,000 BDT, a 12-page corporate site with team bios, careers and a blog is closer to 90,000 BDT, a 25-page site with case studies, multi-language Bangla-English toggle and a custom calculator is 1,50,000 BDT plus.
Second, payments — adding bKash and Nagad PGW integration properly (not a screenshot of a personal number) is roughly 12,000 to 18,000 BDT of dev time because each gateway needs sandbox testing, IPN handling and a refund flow. Third, content — if I write the Bangla and English copy for you, that is a content add-on; if you supply finished copy, your price drops. Fourth, design system — a true custom UI vs. a tasteful template choice is the single biggest swing in the quote.
Fifth, integrations — a Pathao or Steadfast courier API, an SMS OTP through SSL Wireless, a Google Sheets order log, each of these is its own block of hours. Sixth, hosting and email — a basic shared host is included for year one; if you want Cloudflare in front, business email on your domain, and daily backups, those are real recurring costs I will quote separately so you actually know what year two looks like.
What does not drive a real price up: "premium animations," buzzword stacks, or hours billed for meetings. If a Mirpur vendor pads a quote with React-Next-AWS-microservices for a five-page company site, that is not value — that is a junior hiding behind jargon. The same five-page site can ship clean, fast and SEO-ready on a hand-coded HTML/CSS or a lean WordPress build at the 50,000 BDT tier, and that is what most Mirpur SMEs actually need. Pay for what serves your buyer, not what looks impressive in someone else's portfolio.