What a website actually 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 — a 12,000-taka one from a Facebook page, a vague "bhai bolen koto lagbe" from a cousin's friend, and one suspiciously round number from an Agrabad office. None of them tell you what you are actually paying for. This page does. Honest floor: 50,000 BDT. Three published tiers. One senior person who designs and develops the whole thing.
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Here is what actually happens in Chattogram when a business decides it needs a website. The owner asks three or four people "koto taka?", collects a spread of numbers from 10,000 to two lakh, and then sits there with no way to tell which one is fair — because not a single quote came with a breakdown of what design and development actually mean. The cheap one and the expensive one look like the same product on a WhatsApp message. They are not. That gap, the one nobody explains, is the entire reason this page exists.
I am RH Fardin, a solo senior website designer and developer based in Bangladesh, roughly five years in. I build for the businesses this port city actually runs on — importers and C&F agents around the port and Agrabad, traders and showrooms along CDA Avenue and the GEC circle, clinics in Khulshi and Panchlaish, shops selling to customers who pay by bKash and Nagad from their phones. The person who quotes you the website design and development price in Chittagong is the same person who designs it, codes it, and ships it. No sales rep, no junior, no white-label partner doing the real work behind a logo.
Because I am the one doing 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, and anything genuinely custom — heavy ecommerce, a web app, a multi-vendor setup — starts at 3,00,000 BDT after a proper scoping call. A vendor who refuses to put a number in writing before the first meeting is protecting their right to price you based on how much budget they think they can smell. I price the opposite way: tiers up front, scope in writing.
Payment is simple and it is built to protect you, not me — 50 percent advance to start, 50 percent on launch, paid 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. And the design-approval guarantee means I keep iterating the visual direction, within scope, until you actually say it is right — you are never trapped paying the balance on a design you do not like. In a city where half the cheap quotes come with a quiet disappearing act after the advance clears, that structure is the part most vendors will not commit to on paper.
Six things baked into the number — not upsells, not "sir that is a separate package." This is why 50,000 BDT is the honest floor for design and development in Chattogram, not the average.
You are not paying 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 from 3,00,000. You pick the scope that fits; I tell you honestly which tier your project actually needs instead of inflating it.
Compressed images and lean code so the site loads fast on a mid-range Android with one bar in GEC or Agrabad traffic. A Chattogram buyer waiting nine seconds is already in a competitor's tab.
Whether it is a clean manual payment section or full checkout, your bKash and Nagad flow is set up and tested the way port-city customers actually pay — not a personal number copy-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 — no surprise change-fee, no "that is a new package" halfway through the build.
Domain, hosting, admin login, CMS and code are all in your name. No "if you leave, the site breaks" leverage — the most common quiet trap in cheap Chittagong quotes, and one I refuse to build in.
A lot of 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; it is set by four real cost drivers. First, design depth: a five-page brochure for a Khatunganj trader is genuinely cheaper to design than a twelve-page site with a custom homepage, a services hub and a product catalogue.
Second, functionality: a contact form costs nothing extra, but a booking flow with a bKash deposit, or real ecommerce checkout, is weeks of work. Third, content: if your copy is ready in Bangla and English we move fast; if I have to structure and draft it, that is honest extra time. Fourth, the build approach: a clean, customised CMS site is one number, a fully custom Next.js build is roughly three to four times that — and most Chattogram businesses simply do not need the second one.
The reason a Dhaka quote and a Chittagong quote diverge is rarely the city. It is that one of them quietly cut design hours, skipped real mobile testing, or planned to vanish after the advance — and the cheaper number hid it.
So here is the website design and development price in Chittagong, in writing. Starter, 50,000 BDT: up to five pages, a custom design built from your own brand rather than a recoloured template, mobile-first build, a working contact form to your email and WhatsApp, on-page SEO setup, Google Business Profile and Search Console connected, 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 or news section, lead-capture forms, analytics and basic schema.
Pro, 1,50,000 BDT: up to eighteen pages, advanced sections, Bangla + English setup, light ecommerce or a booking module, and a proper performance pass for port-city mobile. Anything past that — heavy ecommerce, a custom web app, a marketplace — starts at 3,00,000 BDT and is 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: a fair floor, an honest scope, and one senior person still answering the phone 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 actually 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 real custom five-page site, design and development together. The three published tiers are 50,000 BDT (starter), 90,000 BDT (business, up to ten pages with blog and forms) and 1,50,000 BDT (pro, up to eighteen pages with Bangla + English and light ecommerce or booking). Fully custom builds — heavy ecommerce, web apps, marketplaces — start at 3,00,000 BDT after a scoping call. Payment is 50 percent advance, 50 percent on launch, via bKash, Nagad or bank. Anyone in Chittagong quoting under 25,000 taka for genuine design plus development is selling a recycled template or planning to disappear after the advance.
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 actually builds it and is there a junior involved; what happens to your domain, hosting and login if you leave; and what the payment structure protects. The cheapest quote in Chattogram almost always goes quiet on at least one of those.
A fair website design and development price is one where the scope is written down, the design is built from your brand, one senior person owns the outcome, and you are never locked out of your own site. That is the standard I quote against — the number is secondary to what it covers.
Because 12,000 taka does not pay for a design phase, real testing on Bangladeshi phones, proper SEO setup, or anyone who replies three months later when the site breaks. At that price someone is renaming a marketplace theme, dropping your logo on, hosting it on a server they control, and moving to the next client by Friday. There is no development worth the name — it is a file handover.
At 50,000 BDT I spend the days a custom site genuinely needs and I am still reachable in month two. If your budget is honestly 12,000, I will tell you to use Shopify or Wix directly and skip the middleman rather than sell you a problem you pay me to fix later.
Because 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 does, and you — the owner — are stuck mediating between two people who do not own the result. I do both, so the design is drawn knowing exactly how it will be coded, and the website design and development price is a single number with no finger-pointing in the middle. One person is responsible for what loads on your customer's phone, start to finish.
Fair question, and you should ask it of everyone. The advance is structured to start the project, and the second 50 percent is not due until the site is live and you have signed off — so the leverage stays with you, not me. The design-approval guarantee means I keep iterating within scope until you approve the look before that balance is ever owed. We agree the scope in writing before any taka moves. Send the advance by bKash, Nagad or bank once that scope is signed — not to a vendor who wants money on a verbal "trust me, bhai" with nothing on paper.
Starter at 50,000 BDT is roughly one to two weeks, Business at 90,000 BDT around three to four weeks, and Pro at 1,50,000 BDT four to six weeks — assuming your content and feedback come back without long gaps, which is usually what actually sets the timeline. The price does not change because you are in Agrabad versus Khulshi, and I do not quietly charge a rush premium; if a launch date is genuinely tight we talk about trimming scope honestly instead of inflating the invoice. The fastest way to blow a timeline in Chattogram is not the developer — it is waiting two weeks for the owner to send photos and approve the homepage.
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