WooCommerce done right for Gulshan brands: a store you own outright, on hosting you control, with bKash and Nagad that actually settle.
I design and build WooCommerce stores for Gulshan boutiques, restaurants, lifestyle labels and B2B sellers — on your own WordPress, your own domain, your own database. No monthly platform rent like Shopify, no locked-in theme, no agency middlemen. Real bKash, Nagad and SSLCommerz checkout, Pathao/RedX/Steadfast hooks, and a wp-admin your team can run. Starts at 50,000 BDT, 50% advance, 50% only after you approve the design.
5+ years building WooCommerce in Bangladesh. One senior operator — the person who scopes your store is the person who installs the plugins and wires your checkout.
+Trusted by 50+ founders, agencies and teams across Bangladesh and beyond.
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Here's the trap most Gulshan business owners fall into: they hear WooCommerce is 'free and open-source', so they hire the cheapest person to install a nulled theme and twelve random plugins, and three months later the store is crawling, the bKash button half-works, and nobody can update a product price without breaking the layout. WooCommerce isn't a product you buy off a shelf — it's a platform that lives or dies on how it's set up. A clean, fast, secure WooCommerce store and a bloated one cost roughly the same in hosting; the difference is entirely in the build. That difference is what I sell.
I'm RH Fardin, a solo website designer and developer with about 5 years building real WordPress and WooCommerce stores for Bangladeshi businesses — a good number of them in Gulshan, Banani and Baridhara. I don't run an agency and I don't hand your store to a junior. The person you brief is the person who picks your hosting, chooses (or skips) every single plugin on purpose, builds your product templates, connects your payment gateway, load-tests the checkout on a 4G phone, and sits with your shop manager to show them how wp-admin works.
I came up through SEO and Google Ads before I built stores, and WooCommerce is the platform I keep recommending for exactly that reason: it gives you full control of your URLs, your schema, your page speed and your customer data — the things that decide whether a Gulshan buyer ever finds you on Google in the first place. A hosted platform hides all of that behind their dashboard. With WooCommerce, your store is genuinely yours: export it, move hosts, change developers, scale it to 5,000 products. You're never renting your own business back from a foreign company.
And I'm in Dhaka, not a support queue in another time zone. If a WooCommerce update conflicts with your bKash plugin on a Friday night and orders stop, you WhatsApp me — not a ticket system that 'investigates' for three days. For a Gulshan brand where a single weekend of downtime is real lost revenue, having the actual developer one message away is worth more than any agency's glossy SLA document.
Six things I build into every WooCommerce store, included from the 50,000 BDT tier — most of which 'cheap WooCommerce' setups in Dhaka either skip or break.
Your WordPress, your hosting, your database, your domain — all in your name from day one. No monthly platform fee, no lock-in. You can fire me and the store keeps running.
Every plugin is chosen on purpose and justified. No 30-plugin junk drawer that slows your store and breaks on the next WooCommerce update. Fewer, better, maintained.
Live bKash Merchant, Nagad and SSLCommerz card gateway wired into WooCommerce checkout, plus a clean cash-on-delivery flow — all tested on real Gulshan-area phones before launch.
Pathao, RedX, Steadfast or Sundarban integrations so your Gulshan warehouse prints labels from wp-admin in one click. Delivery charges auto-split inside-Dhaka vs outside.
Cached, optimised, image-compressed and locked down — no nulled themes, no pirated plugins, no malware risk. A WooCommerce store should load fast on Gulshan 4G, and it will.
Add products, change prices, run a discount, mark orders shipped, export to Excel — your staff does it all in wp-admin. I leave short Bangla training videos on handover.
Every Gulshan founder asks me this on the first call: WooCommerce naki Shopify? Here's the straight answer. Shopify is genuinely easier if you want to never touch anything technical and you're fine paying in USD every month plus a per-transaction cut forever — and crucially, Shopify's native bKash and Nagad support is still weak, so you end up bolting on third-party gateways anyway.
WooCommerce, set up properly, gives you the same polished storefront, far better local payment support, full control of your SEO and customer data, and zero monthly platform rent — you only pay for hosting, which for most Gulshan stores runs a few thousand taka a year. The catch is that WooCommerce needs a competent person to set it up and keep it healthy. That's the whole job. Done by the wrong person it's a liability; done right it's the best-value ecommerce platform a Bangladeshi brand can run.
So who should actually pick WooCommerce? If you're a Gulshan boutique or label that wants a store that looks premium, accepts bKash/Nagad/cards cleanly, ranks on Google, and stays fully under your ownership without bleeding a monthly fee — WooCommerce is the right call, and it's what I build.
I scope each store from scratch around your real buyers: do they pay by bKash or card, do you deliver only inside Gulshan-Banani-Baridhara or outside Dhaka too, will staff manage orders on a phone or an office desktop, do you need BDT and USD invoices for embassy and corporate clients? Those answers shape the plugin choices, the checkout, and the admin.
Pricing starts at 50,000 BDT, with 50% advance and 50% due on launch only after you've approved the design — so you're never paying for a store you haven't seen.
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 real questions Gulshan business owners ask me about WooCommerce before signing — straight answers, no soft sell.
Three tiers: 50,000 BDT for a starter WooCommerce store (up to ~30 products, bKash + COD, lean plugin setup), 90,000 BDT for a mid-tier store (more products, multiple gateways, courier integration, basic CRM), and 1,50,000 BDT for a fully built store with custom features. Custom enterprise WooCommerce builds start from 3,00,000 BDT. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch. Hosting and domain are billed separately and stay in your name.
For most Gulshan brands: you own it outright, there's no monthly USD platform fee, and bKash/Nagad support is far cleaner natively. Shopify wins only if you never want to touch anything technical and don't mind renting your store forever. WooCommerce needs a competent setup — which is exactly what I do — but then it's better value and fully yours.
Those stories come from bad builds — nulled themes, 30 random plugins, cheap shared hosting, no caching. A WooCommerce store built properly is fast and secure. I use a lean plugin stack, proper caching, image optimisation and legitimate licensed code only. The platform isn't the problem; the person who set it up usually was.
Yes — that's the point of WooCommerce. Your staff adds products, edits prices, runs discounts, marks orders shipped and exports order data to Excel, all from wp-admin. I record short Bangla walkthrough videos at handover. You only come back to me for new features or a redesign, not for daily operations.
Yes — that's standard from the 90,000 BDT tier up: bKash Merchant, Nagad and SSLCommerz card gateway all wired into WooCommerce checkout. The 50,000 BDT starter includes bKash Merchant plus cash-on-delivery, with Nagad/card addable later. I guide the merchant setup, though you complete the bank/MFS KYC yourself.
Yes, and it's a common request from Gulshan owners. I'll audit what you have — plugins, theme, hosting, payment setup, speed — and tell you honestly whether to clean it up or rebuild. A cleanup of an existing store often fits inside the 50,000-90,000 BDT range; a full rebuild is quoted per the tiers above. Either way I tell you the truth before taking your advance.
Grab a free 15-minute call and I'll show you exactly what your new website should do — and what it'll cost in BDT. No pitch, no pressure.
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