POS software price in Bangladesh (2026): what stores actually pay

The three pricing models you will meet

Ask five vendors for a POS quote in Dhaka and you will get five structures that are hard to compare. Almost all of them reduce to three models.

• One-time license: you pay once, often ৳20,000 to ৳80,000, and own the software. Updates, support and fixes usually cost extra after the first year, and the product often stops improving.
• Monthly subscription: you pay per month or per year, and updates, hosting and support are included. This is the model most modern cloud POS products use, including MondayPOS.
• Per-transaction or hardware-bundled pricing: the software looks cheap or free, but the vendor earns from payment processing margins or locked hardware. Always price the whole package.

What a subscription actually buys you

A fair monthly price should cover the things that quietly cost money when they go wrong: hosting and backups, security patches, new features, VAT format updates when NBR changes a form, and a human to call when the till misbehaves on a Friday evening.

With a one-time license, each of those becomes a negotiation. The sticker price is lower; the five-year cost frequently is not.

Why per-outlet pricing fits Bangladesh retail

Flat tiers punish small chains: a two-outlet pharmacy pays the same as a ten-outlet one, or gets forced into an enterprise plan it does not need. Per-outlet pricing scales with the business instead.

MondayPOS prices this way: a base plan per outlet, billed monthly or yearly, with a smaller add-on rate for each additional outlet. A single shop starts small, and a chain pays in proportion to what it runs.

The hidden charges to ask about

• Implementation and data entry: is loading your products and opening stock included, or billed per day?
• Training: how many sessions, and is refresher training for new staff free?
• Extra users or devices: some vendors charge per till, per user and per device separately.
• Integrations: bKash, Nagad and card terminal connections are sometimes priced as add-ons.
• Annual maintenance (AMC): common with one-time licenses, often 15 to 25 percent of the license price per year.
• Exit cost: can you export your full data for free if you leave? If not, that is the most expensive line on the quote.

Budgeting for hardware

Software is only part of the bill. A practical single-counter setup in Bangladesh usually means a barcode scanner, a thermal receipt printer and a cash drawer; supermarkets add weighing scales, and busier counters add a customer display.

A hardware-agnostic POS protects this budget: you can buy standard devices from any vendor in Nawabpur or Gulistan, reuse what you already own, and replace pieces individually. Avoid systems that only work with the vendor's own branded hardware.

How to compare quotes properly

Put every offer on a five-year timeline: license or subscription, AMC, support, training, integrations and the realistic cost of one migration if the product fails you. Then weigh the things a price sheet does not show: does it bill offline during load-shedding, does it produce Mushak 6.3 challans, and can it grow from one outlet to five without a re-purchase?

A till that keeps selling through a power cut routinely pays for a year of subscription in one recovered evening of sales.

The bottom line

Expect serious cloud POS subscriptions in Bangladesh to land in the low thousands of taka per outlet per month, with yearly billing discounted. Treat anything dramatically cheaper as a prompt to ask what is missing: offline mode, VAT documents, support, or your own data on the way out.

MondayPOS publishes its per-outlet plans openly on the pricing page, in BDT, with every plan offline-first. That is the comparison baseline we would want as buyers, so it is the one we offer.