In focus
What actually drives the price of a website in Bangladesh
Almost everyone first asks, 'website koto taka?' My honest answer is that price depends on what the site has to do, not how many pages it has. My prices start at 50,000 BDT and run in three tiers: 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT. Fully custom builds start from 3,00,000 BDT. A clean business or portfolio site with a few pages, a contact form and solid mobile design sits at the lower tiers.
The price climbs when the work behind the screen grows. Think of an online store with product management, bKash and Nagad checkout and order handling. Or custom features built from scratch, or bookings, logins, dashboards and anything that needs real backend logic. So a five-page site and a five-page store are not the same price, even with the same page count. The store does ten times the work.
A few other things move the number, and it helps to know them before you compare quotes. Who supplies the content matters. If you hand me finished text and photos, that's faster and cheaper than me writing copy and finding images. Custom design versus a polished template matters too, because bespoke layouts take more hours. And every payment gateway, CRM, WhatsApp button or outside tool is real work to set up correctly.
Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch on every tier, so you never pay in full for an unfinished site. When someone quotes 15,000 BDT for an 'ecommerce website', that price tells you something. Usually it's a thin template with no proper local payments, no support, and someone who'll vanish after the advance clears. Don't only ask what it costs. Ask what it costs you when it doesn't work.