SaaS application development
Laravel SaaS application development.
Building a SaaS product means making a handful of decisions early that are painful to reverse later: how customer data is separated, how billing works, and how permissions are modeled. We help you make those decisions deliberately, then build the platform on Laravel and Vue.js so it can keep changing once real customers are using it.
Who this is for
For businesses selling software, not just running it.
SaaS has a different set of problems than internal software. You are supporting many customers on one codebase, charging them on a recurring basis, and shipping changes without disrupting anyone. That shapes how the application should be built.
- You are launching a new SaaS product and need it built properly the first time.
- An internal tool you built for your own operations is worth selling to others.
- You have an existing SaaS platform that has become hard to change.
- You need subscription billing, trials, plans, and upgrades handled correctly.
- Multiple customer organizations need to use the same system without seeing each other.
- You want a technical partner for the long haul, not just through launch.
What we build
The parts every SaaS platform needs.
- Multi-tenant architecture
- Subscription & recurring billing
- Plan, trial & upgrade flows
- Role-based permissions
- Team & organization accounts
- Customer onboarding flows
- Admin & operations dashboards
- Usage tracking & reporting
- Public & partner APIs
- Webhooks & integrations
- Notification & email systems
- Self-service account management
Common problems
Where SaaS platforms get stuck.
Most of the SaaS applications we are asked to fix are not badly written. They were built quickly to reach the first customers, and the early structural decisions were never revisited once the product found traction.
- Billing logic is tangled through the application and nobody trusts it.
- Tenant data is separated by convention rather than by design.
- Adding a new pricing plan means touching a dozen files.
- Permissions grew case by case and no longer follow a clear model.
- Onboarding a new customer still requires manual work from your team.
- The database schema fights every new feature.
- Nobody can say with confidence what a given customer is being charged for.
How we work
A practical path from idea to paying customers.
Product & workflow discovery
Understand what the product does, who pays for it, and which workflows have to work on day one.
Tenancy & data model
Decide how customer data is separated and design the schema around that decision before code is written.
Billing & plan design
Map plans, trials, upgrades, downgrades, proration, and failed payments to concrete Stripe behavior.
Roles & permissions
Define the permission model once, so access rules stay coherent as the product grows.
MVP scope
Separate what has to ship to get the first paying customers from what can wait.
Laravel / Vue.js development
Build the platform with a maintainable backend structure, a clean frontend, and a real test suite around billing and access.
Launch
Deploy to a production environment with monitoring, backups, and a sensible release process.
Iteration & support
Keep shipping as real customers use the product and priorities become clearer.
Decisions that stick
Two choices worth slowing down for.
Tenancy and billing are the two decisions that are cheap to make carefully up front and expensive to change once you have customers. We work through both before development starts.
Tenancy model
What we work out
- How much customer data isolation the product actually requires.
- Whether customers will ever need their own database or domain.
- What compliance or contractual obligations apply.
- How many tenants the platform realistically needs to serve.
Billing model
What we work out
- Per-seat, flat-rate, usage-based, or a combination.
- How trials convert, and what happens when they do not.
- What a downgrade does to data that exceeds the lower plan.
- How failed payments and dunning are handled.
Technology
Built on a stack that suits subscription products.
Laravel handles the parts of a SaaS product that are tedious to build well: authentication, permissions, queues, scheduled work, and billing through Stripe.
- Laravel
- PHP
- Vue.js
- Inertia.js
- Tailwind CSS
- MySQL / MariaDB
- Laravel Cashier
- Stripe
- Redis & queues
- REST APIs
- Docker
- Laravel Forge
Related services
Explore the rest of what we do.
Common questions
Questions about SaaS development.
Can you build a SaaS product from an idea, or do I need a spec first?
You do not need a finished spec. Most SaaS projects start from a rough idea and a clear business problem. We run a paid discovery sprint to turn that into a scoped plan covering the tenancy model, billing structure, permissions, and an MVP feature set you can budget around.
Should my SaaS application be multi-tenant or single-tenant?
It depends on how much data isolation your customers require, whether any of them will need a dedicated database or domain, and what compliance obligations apply. Most business SaaS products are well served by a shared database with tenant scoping. We make that call deliberately during design, because changing it later is expensive.
How do you handle subscription billing?
We build billing on Stripe, usually through Laravel Cashier, and cover the full lifecycle: plans, trials, upgrades and downgrades, proration, cancellations, failed payments, and webhooks. Billing logic is kept in one place and covered by tests, because it is the part of a SaaS product that is most expensive to get wrong.
Can you take over an existing SaaS platform someone else built?
Yes. We take over existing Laravel and PHP SaaS applications regularly. That usually starts with a technical audit to establish what is there, what the risks are, and what should be addressed first, before any feature work begins.
What happens after launch?
Most SaaS clients continue on a monthly retainer. A product with paying customers needs ongoing feature work, dependency and framework updates, performance attention, and someone available when something breaks.
Building a SaaS product?
Whether you are starting from an idea, productizing something you built for your own operations, or taking over a platform that has stopped being easy to change, we can help you plan it and build it.