A WooCommerce store in Uttara you actually own — not a monthly SaaS rent you can never escape.
WooCommerce website development in Uttara, built end-to-end by one senior developer: the WordPress + WooCommerce install, the theme, the bKash and Nagad gateway, cash-on-delivery, and Pathao or Steadfast courier handoff. You get the admin login, the hosting, and the database in your name. Pricing starts at 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch, with a design-approval guarantee before any code is written.
Solo senior operator. ~5 years building WooCommerce stores for Dhaka SMBs. No juniors, no resold themes, no platform lock-in.
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Most Uttara founders who message me about WooCommerce have already done the math on Shopify and flinched. The platform fee is in dollars, the Bangladeshi payment apps need a third-party bridge that takes another cut, and every premium app that makes the store actually usable is another monthly charge in a currency that keeps getting more expensive against the taka. WooCommerce flips that: you pay once to build it, you pay yearly for hosting in your own name, and bKash, Nagad and SSLCommerz plug in as free or one-time WooCommerce extensions. For a Sector 7 boutique or a Diabari electronics reseller doing 40 to 200 orders a month, that difference is real money kept, not spent.
WooCommerce website development in Uttara is not just "install WordPress and pick a theme," which is what the 18,000 BDT Facebook offers actually deliver. The difference is in the parts buyers never see: a checkout that does not reload three times on a Robi connection, COD wired to a confirmation-call workflow so you stop eating fake orders, courier integration that exports a clean Pathao CSV instead of you copying addresses by hand at midnight, and order-reference matching so a bKash screenshot in your inbox lines up with an order in the dashboard automatically. That plumbing is the whole job. The theme is the easy 20%.
I work alone, and that is the feature, not a limitation. When you call about "koto taka" or about a broken checkout during your Eid campaign, you reach the person whose hands are on the WooCommerce code and the Figma file — not an account manager in a Sector 4 office routing your ticket to a junior who learned WordPress last month. Around five years of building and rescuing stores across Dhaka, including a steady run of Uttara clients from Sector 3 through Sector 14, has taught me exactly where WooCommerce stores leak orders: the COD step, the bKash confirmation gap, and product pages that load too slow for a phone on mobile data.
I will also tell you when WooCommerce is the wrong tool. If you have ten products and sell mostly through Facebook DMs and bKash, you do not need a 50,000 BDT store yet — keep a Facebook shop and a Google Sheet, and call me when order volume hurts. WooCommerce earns its keep when you have a real catalogue, repeat customers, and ad spend you want to send somewhere that converts. The 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT ladder is built so you start at the tier that matches your volume and grow into a custom build (from 3,00,000 BDT) only when revenue justifies it.
Six things I wire in by default on every Uttara WooCommerce store — the parts that decide whether the store makes money or just sits there looking nice.
WordPress + WooCommerce admin, hosting credentials and domain all registered in your name. No SaaS subscription, no platform that can suspend your store, no developer holding the login hostage.
Proper WooCommerce payment integration via SSLCommerz or aamarPay so bKash, Nagad and cards auto-confirm into the order. No more matching screenshots in WhatsApp at 11pm.
Cash-on-delivery wired to a confirmation-call workflow and per-thana delivery charges. Uttara, Mirpur and outside-Dhaka rates are set from day one so you stop losing margin on returns.
One-click Pathao, Steadfast or RedX CSV export from the WooCommerce orders screen. Stop retyping Sector 11 addresses by hand into the courier panel every evening.
WebP images, a lean theme under 200KB of CSS/JS, and no plugin bloat — tested on a mid-range Android over 4G, because that is how almost every Uttara buyer actually shops.
Because it is WooCommerce, you can add filters, wishlists, abandoned-cart recovery, Facebook catalogue sync or a loyalty program later — without paying a monthly app rent for each one.
Here is the honest comparison Uttara founders ask me for. A Shopify store starts around 3,500 to 4,500 BDT a month before you add a single paid app, and Bangladeshi payments still run through a third-party bridge that charges per transaction. Add the two or three apps every real store needs — proper bKash handling, a COD confirmation tool, a courier exporter — and you are easily past 8,000 to 12,000 BDT a month, in dollars, forever, going up every time the taka slips.
Over three years that is well over 3,00,000 BDT in rent for software you never own. A WooCommerce build with me is 50,000 BDT once, plus hosting of roughly 7,000 to 10,000 BDT a year paid to a provider in your name. The payment extensions are free or one-time. After year one, your running cost is basically just hosting.
Shopify is genuinely better at a few things — it is faster to set up if you have no developer, and its checkout is rock-solid out of the box. So I will tell you to use it if you are a non-technical founder who wants to launch this week and does not mind the monthly rent.
But for most Uttara SMBs — a clothing label in Sector 13, a cosmetics reseller off Rabindra Sarani, a home-goods brand near Jasimuddin — WooCommerce wins because you control the costs, you own the customer data, and nothing breaks if you stop paying a SaaS bill. The 50,000 BDT tier covers a single-store WooCommerce build, up to 30 products loaded by me, the bKash/Nagad/COD checkout and basic courier handoff.
The 90,000 BDT tier adds up to 150 products, filters, abandoned-cart email and coupons; 1,50,000 BDT adds a custom theme and live Pathao API rates. Payment is 50% advance, 50% on launch, and you approve the homepage and product-page mockups before I write a line of code — that is the design-approval guarantee.
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
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The real questions Uttara founders ask me before they pay the 50% advance.
It starts at 50,000 BDT for a single WooCommerce store with bKash, Nagad and COD checkout and up to 30 products loaded by me. The next tier is 90,000 BDT (up to 150 products, filters, abandoned-cart recovery, coupons). A full store with a custom theme and live Pathao API rates is 1,50,000 BDT. Anything beyond that — multi-vendor marketplace, ERP sync, custom checkout logic — is a custom build from 3,00,000 BDT. Hosting and domain are paid separately to the provider in your own name, roughly 7,000 to 10,000 BDT for the first year combined. Payment terms are 50% advance, 50% on launch.
Mainly cost and control. Shopify charges a monthly fee in dollars plus per-app fees, and Bangladeshi payments run through a third-party bridge with its own cut — that adds up to 3,00,000 BDT or more over three years for software you never own. WooCommerce is a one-time 50,000 BDT build plus yearly hosting in your name, with bKash and Nagad as free or one-time extensions. You own the store, the customer data and the database. The trade-off: Shopify is easier to self-manage with no developer, so if you want to launch this week alone, it may suit you better. For most Uttara SMBs with real order volume, WooCommerce keeps more money.
Yes, two ways. The simple way at the 50,000 BDT tier: a personal-merchant flow where the customer pays your bKash number, references the order ID, and the system auto-matches when you confirm in the admin — useful while a bKash Merchant account is still pending, since that approval needs a trade license and bank details and can take weeks. The better way, once approved, is a proper WooCommerce gateway through SSLCommerz or aamarPay so bKash, Nagad and cards auto-confirm into the order with no manual matching. I integrate that as a 10,000 BDT add-on after your account clears.
Three to four weeks from the day the 50% advance clears and you send me your product list, logo and photos. Week 1 is design mockups and your sign-off. Week 2 is the WooCommerce install and theme. Week 3 is bKash/Nagad/COD wiring, courier setup and product loading. Week 4 is testing on real phones, your training session, and launch. If we can meet in person around Uttara for the kickoff, the brief usually goes faster. Most delays come from the client side — late brand assets or slow mockup feedback — not from the build.
Yes — that is the benchmark I actually test against, not desktop speed. Product images auto-convert to WebP, the theme ships under 200KB of CSS/JS, and I strip the plugin bloat that makes most WooCommerce stores crawl. I test on a real mid-range Android over Robi or Banglalink 4G before handover, because that is how almost every Uttara buyer shops — on a phone, often at night. If a product page takes over three seconds to first-load on that setup, it is not finished.
You are not locked in — that is the point of WooCommerce. You get full admin access plus a screen-recorded walkthrough showing how to add a product, change a price, run a coupon and refund a customer. Because it is WordPress and WooCommerce, any competent developer can extend it later, including you. I offer an optional monthly retainer (starting around 8,000 BDT/month for updates, security and backups), but you are never obligated. Many Uttara founders take a few months of retainer to get comfortable, then handle small edits themselves. You own the asset either way.
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