Laravel commerce, built for stores that need real control.

Yes, Laravel is one of the best frameworks for ecommerce when you want full control over the storefront, checkout, and back office. The official Bagisto eCommerce platform is built on Laravel, the ecosystem covers payments through Cashier and direct gateway integration, and the framework's flexibility makes custom rules around pricing, inventory, taxes, and fulfilment straightforward. We have shipped Bagisto stores, custom Laravel commerce platforms, multi-vendor marketplaces, and headless storefronts for clients across the US, UK, Australia, and India.

Pick Shopify when you want a fast, low-maintenance store with standard checkout, standard fulfilment, and limited custom business logic. The trade-off is platform fees, less control over data, and limits on what the storefront can do. Pick Laravel (often through Bagisto) when you need custom pricing rules, complex catalogs, multi-vendor or B2B workflows, deep ERP integration, or full ownership of the codebase and data. The honest answer is that most small DTC stores belong on Shopify, and most mid-market or B2B commerce belongs on Laravel.

Bagisto is an open source eCommerce platform built on Laravel and Vue.js. It ships with the standard storefront, checkout, product catalog, inventory, multi-channel, multi-currency, multi-language, payment integrations, and a clean admin out of the box, with a package architecture that makes customisation faster than building from scratch. Acquaint Softtech is an Official Bagisto Partner, which means we work directly with the Bagisto core team on production stores and complex customisations. Bagisto is free, MIT licensed, and runs over 10,000 stores worldwide.

A focused Bagisto store with theme customisation, payment integration, and admin setup typically costs $8,000 to $18,000 and ships in 5 to 9 weeks. A custom Laravel store with bespoke pricing rules, ERP integration, and a polished frontend lands between $25,000 and $80,000 over 3 to 5 months. A full multi-vendor marketplace with vendor onboarding, payouts, and a custom storefront runs $50,000 to $180,000 over 5 to 9 months. Dedicated Laravel commerce engineers start at $22 per hour or $3,200 per month full time. A full breakdown sits on our Laravel development cost page.

We integrate Stripe with Laravel two ways. For subscription commerce (memberships, recurring boxes, SaaS-style billing) we use Laravel Cashier, the official package that wraps Stripe's subscription API. For one-time checkout (standard eCommerce) we use Stripe's PHP SDK directly with Stripe Elements or Stripe Checkout on the frontend. Both options ship with full PCI compliance handled by Stripe (no card data touches your servers), webhook signature verification, 3D Secure support, and Stripe Tax for global VAT and sales tax handling. More on our Laravel integration services page.

Yes. Multi-vendor marketplaces are one of our specialist eCommerce engagements. We build them on Bagisto using its multi-vendor extension, or fully custom on Laravel when the workflows justify it. A typical build includes vendor onboarding and KYC, vendor-specific product catalogs, commission and payout logic through Stripe Connect, vendor dashboards, customer support for multi-vendor orders, and dispute resolution flows. We have shipped marketplaces serving 200 plus active vendors and processing thousands of orders monthly on a single Laravel architecture.

Headless commerce separates the storefront (frontend) from the eCommerce engine (backend). Laravel runs as the backend, exposing product, cart, checkout, and order APIs. The frontend is built separately as a Next.js, Nuxt.js, Astro, or native mobile app, consuming those APIs. Headless gives you full control over the storefront experience, better Core Web Vitals scores, easier omnichannel (one backend serving web, mobile, and in-store), and lets your frontend team move independently of the commerce team. We build headless on Laravel APIs with Sanctum auth, OpenAPI documentation, and Redis caching.

Laravel commerce performance is excellent when built well. Standard optimisations are Redis caching for catalog and category data, full page caching for anonymous traffic, Horizon backed queues for emails and exports, CDN at the edge for product images, and read replicas for analytics queries. We benchmark every store at sub 800ms time to first byte on the catalog pages and sub 1.5s largest contentful paint on the product detail pages. For Black Friday level traffic we add Laravel Octane and horizontal scaling, which has held up at 50,000 plus concurrent users in our own load tests.

Yes. Migrating from Magento, WooCommerce, Shopify, or PrestaShop into Bagisto or custom Laravel is a regular engagement. We preserve product catalog, customer accounts, order history, SEO URLs (with 301 redirects), and reviews. The cutover runs on a mirror environment with shadow testing before going live. More on our migration services page.

Yes, completely. Source code ownership and IP transfer terms are agreed in writing before kick off, the NDA is signed before any project discussions, and the repository is yours from commit one. There are no surprise licence fees later, no usage limits, and no white labelled dependencies that lock you in. Bagisto is MIT licensed and free, so there are no platform fees either.