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WooCommerce Bangladesh hosting costs

A WooCommerce shop in Bangladesh also means hosting. Plugins, SSL, and Pathao sit on a server you own. StoreOS has no Tk 20,000 build fee.

WooCommerce Bangladesh hosting costs

The quote looks friendly. Tk 20,000, maybe 40,000, for a WooCommerce shop. Two months if the freelancer is busy. You get a WordPress login and a promise that Pathao can be “added.”

Then you own the machine.

SSL expires. PHP needs an update. A plugin fights another plugin. COD is a checkbox. The courier is a second plugin, or a Google Sheet. When the theme breaks on mobile, you pay the same person again.

That is the real cost column on our homepage: build fee, then hosting every month, then a rebuild when the catalog grows.

We use Tk 20,000+ and 2 months+ as a marketing contrast, not as an audited industry study. Local agencies publish wider ranges. The pattern is the same: you bought a site and a job.

What WooCommerce is good at

You want the files. You have a developer on staff. You are fine patching WordPress on Sunday.

WooCommerce is a real store. Local gateways and couriers exist as plugins. You are not locked into StoreOS.

You are locked into whoever remembers the hosting password.

What StoreOS is

A merchant console: products, variants, stock, orders, coupons, customers. A storefront that can be a theme (see the live themes) or a custom site on the Storefront API.

Cash on delivery is on Free. Pathao and Steadfast booking sit in that console on a paid plan. Billing is taka, from the live catalog — not a frozen ৳290 screenshot, not a USD subscription.

There is no Tk 20,000 build fee. Signup is a Bangladeshi mobile and an SMS code.

Free takes COD orders. It does not book a courier. Load the catalog on Free. Book the courier on a paid plan. See pricing.

A courier-owned shop is a different quote again. Pathao Commerce vs your own store is that comparison: their inbox and parcel product, versus a store on your domain with Pathao as a courier.

Shopify is the other quote

Shopify looks finished. Pathao is still an app. The plan is USD. We wrote that out separately.

WooCommerce vs Shopify is the article every agency in Dhaka already wrote. The missing column is a Bangladesh platform that does not make you run WordPress or pay in dollars.

Who this is not for

If you enjoy owning the stack, keep WooCommerce.

If you sell on Facebook and you need stock, checkout, and a courier in one place — without hiring a maintainer — start a StoreOS store next to the chat.

GearHaat (gearhaat.com) and Sporty BD (sportybd.com) already did. Name and URL only.

Create a free store, or talk on WhatsApp.