What a website really costs in Chittagong: the number, and what is hiding inside it
Most people land on "website design and development price in chittagong" with two or three quotes already on their phone. One is 12,000 taka from a Facebook page. One is a vague "bhai bolen koto lagbe" from a cousin's friend. One is a suspiciously round number from an Agrabad office. None of them tell you what you are paying for. This page does. The honest floor is 50,000 BDT. There are three published tiers and one senior person who designs and develops the whole thing.
Solo senior designer-developer, about 5 years on Bangladesh sites. Tiers: 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT, custom from 3,00,000. 50% advance via bKash/Nagad, 50% on launch. Design-approval guarantee.
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Here is what really happens with the website design and development price in Chittagong. A business decides it needs a website. The owner asks three or four people "koto taka?" and collects numbers from 10,000 to two lakh. Then they sit there with no way to tell which one is fair. Not one quote came with a breakdown of what design and development mean.
The cheap quote and the expensive one look like the same product on a WhatsApp message. They are not. That gap, the one nobody explains, is the whole reason this page exists.
I am RH Fardin, a solo senior website designer and developer with about five years of work. I build for the businesses this port city runs on. That means importers and C&F agents around the port and Agrabad, and traders and showrooms along CDA Avenue and the GEC circle. It also means clinics in Khulshi and Panchlaish, and shops whose customers pay by bKash and Nagad from their phones.
The person who quotes you the price is the same person who designs it, codes it and ships it. There is no sales rep, no junior and no white-label partner doing the real work behind a logo.
Because I do the work, I can publish real numbers instead of hiding behind "let's discuss after the meeting." The honest floor is 50,000 BDT. The three tiers are 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT. Truly custom work starts at 3,00,000 BDT after a proper scoping call. That covers heavy ecommerce, a web app or a multi-vendor setup.
Some vendors refuse to put a number in writing before the first meeting. They are protecting their right to price you on how much budget they think you have. I price the opposite way: tiers up front, scope in writing.
Payment is simple, and it is built to protect you, not me. You pay 50 percent advance to start and 50 percent on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. The advance gets the project moving. The second half is not due until you have signed off and the site is live.
The design-approval guarantee means I keep refining the look, within scope, until you say it is right. You are never trapped paying the balance on a design you do not like. In this city, half the cheap quotes come with a quiet vanishing act after the advance clears. This structure is the part most vendors will not commit to on paper.
Here are six things baked into the number. They are not upsells, and you will never hear "sir, that is a separate package" from me. This is why 50,000 BDT is the honest floor for design and development in Chattogram, not the average.
You do not pay a designer for a pretty mockup and then a separate developer to make it real. One senior person does the design and the build. So the price is one number, and nothing falls through the gap between two vendors.
50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT, in writing, before the first call. Custom work starts from 3,00,000. You pick the scope that fits. I tell you honestly which tier your project needs instead of inflating it.
Compressed images and lean code help the site load fast on a mid-range Android with one bar in GEC or Agrabad traffic. A Chattogram buyer who waits nine seconds is already in a competitor's tab.
It might be a clean manual payment section or a full checkout. Either way, your bKash and Nagad flow is set up and tested the way port-city customers really pay. It is not a personal number pasted into a footer.
You do not pay the final 50 percent until you approve the design. In-scope revisions continue until the look is right. There is no surprise change fee and no "that is a new package" halfway through the build.
Domain, hosting, admin login, CMS and code are all in your name. There is no "if you leave, the site breaks" threat. That is the most common quiet trap in cheap Chittagong quotes, and I refuse to build it in.
Many Chattogram owners ring a Dhaka vendor, hear a number and assume it is the going rate. It often is not, and not for the reason you think. The price of website design and development is not really a city tax. Four real cost drivers set it. First is design depth. A five-page brochure for a Khatunganj trader is cheaper to design than a twelve-page site with a custom homepage, a services hub and a product catalogue.
Second is features. A contact form costs nothing extra. A booking flow with a bKash deposit, or real ecommerce checkout, is weeks of work. Third is content. If your copy is ready in Bangla and English, we move fast. Drafting it for you is honest extra time. Fourth is the build. A fully custom Next.js build costs about three to four times a clean CMS site, and most Chattogram businesses do not need it. When quotes differ, the cheap one usually cut design hours or skipped mobile testing.
So here is the website design and development price in Chittagong, in writing. Starter, 50,000 BDT: up to five pages and a custom design from your own brand, not a recoloured template. It has a mobile-first build, a contact form to your email and WhatsApp and on-page SEO setup. Google Business Profile and Search Console are connected. You also get a clean bKash/Nagad payment section and the design-approval guarantee. Business, 90,000 BDT: up to ten pages, a deeper design system, a blog, lead-capture forms, analytics and basic schema.
Pro, 1,50,000 BDT: up to eighteen pages, advanced sections, Bangla and English, light ecommerce or booking and a speed pass for port-city mobile. Heavy ecommerce, a custom web app or a marketplace starts at 3,00,000 BDT, quoted only after a real scoping call. Every tier is 50 percent advance, 50 percent on launch, via bKash, Nagad or bank. That is website design and development chittagong bd priced the way it should be. You get a fair floor, an honest scope and one senior person still answering in month two.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point. I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
Every project starts at ৳50,000
A sharp, credible site that makes the right first impression and brings enquiries.
Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra
A full, professional site that ranks and converts for a growing business.
Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra
An online store built to sell and scale.
Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra
Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or send an email.
The questions Chattogram buyers really ask before they pay the advance, starting with the one everyone opens with in the first thirty seconds.
The honest floor is 50,000 BDT for a custom five-page site, design and development included. The tiers are 50,000 BDT (starter), 90,000 BDT (business, up to ten pages with blog and forms) and 1,50,000 BDT (pro). Pro means up to eighteen pages with Bangla and English, plus light ecommerce or booking. Fully custom builds start at 3,00,000 BDT after a scoping call. Payment is 50 percent advance and 50 percent on launch, via bKash, Nagad or bank. A quote under 25,000 taka is a recycled template or a vanishing act.
Stop comparing the totals and compare what is inside them. Ask each vendor four things in writing. How many pages, and is the design custom or a template? Who builds it, and is a junior involved? What happens to your domain, hosting and login if you leave? What does the payment structure protect? The cheapest quote in Chattogram almost always goes quiet on one of those. A fair price has written scope, a design from your brand, one senior owner and no lock-out.
12,000 taka does not pay for a design phase, testing on Bangladeshi phones, proper SEO setup or anyone who replies when the site breaks. At that price, someone renames a marketplace theme, adds your logo, hosts it on their server and moves on by Friday. That is a file handover, not development. At 50,000 BDT, I spend the days a custom site needs, and I am still reachable in month two. If your budget is truly 12,000, use Shopify or Wix directly and skip the middleman.
In Chattogram, the gap between a separate designer and a separate developer is where projects go to die. The designer hands over a pretty mockup. The developer says half of it cannot be built that way, or quietly cuts it. You, the owner, are stuck in the middle. I do both, so the design is drawn knowing how it will be coded. The price is one number with no finger-pointing. One person is responsible for what loads on your customer's phone, start to finish.
Fair question, and you should ask everyone. The advance starts the project. The second 50 percent is not due until the site is live and you have signed off, so the leverage stays with you. The design-approval guarantee means I keep refining, within scope, until you approve the look. We agree the scope in writing before any taka moves. Then send the advance by bKash, Nagad or bank. Never pay a vendor who wants money on a verbal "trust me, bhai" with nothing on paper.
Starter at 50,000 BDT takes about one to two weeks. Business at 90,000 BDT takes about three to four weeks, and Pro at 1,50,000 BDT takes four to six. That assumes your content and feedback come back without long gaps. The price does not change for Agrabad versus Khulshi, and I charge no rush fee. If a date is tight, we trim scope honestly. The fastest way to blow a timeline is waiting two weeks for the owner to send photos and approve the homepage.
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