Laravel Nova admin panels, built by people who actually ship them.
Custom Nova resources, fields, tools, dashboards, and metrics for production Laravel applications. Official Laravel admin, polished out of the box, extended by senior engineers who have shipped Nova panels for fintech, healthcare, logistics, and SaaS clients since Nova 1.0.
- Custom Nova resources, fields, tools, cards, metrics, actions, filters, and lenses
- Multi-tenant scoping, granular Nova policies, and audit log integration
- Brand theming with Nova's CSS variables and custom Vue components
- Production Nova panels serving 10K plus admin users daily
The official Laravel admin panel, extended properly.
Nova, in plain terms.
Laravel Nova is the official administration panel for Laravel applications, built and maintained by the Laravel team and Tighten. Nova lets you define resources (admin views for Eloquent models) with fields, filters, actions, lenses, and metrics, and ships with a polished Vue.js powered interface that looks production grade out of the box. Nova is commercial software ($199 per project licence for solo, $299 per project for teams) and includes one year of updates and bug fixes per licence.
Nova is the right call when you need an admin panel with first party Laravel support, a clean Vue.js interface, a per project licence that buys you ongoing updates, and a large commercial ecosystem of paid third party packages. We have shipped Nova panels for fintech, healthcare, logistics, and SaaS clients since Nova 1.0 in 2018, and have built private Nova packages covering signature capture, geolocation pickers, audit log viewers, Stripe Connect tools, and complex JSON editors.
Signals your project is a good Nova candidate.
Nova is one of two excellent admin panel options for Laravel (the other being Filament). Nova fits some teams and projects better than others. If three or more of these apply, Nova is likely the right call.
You want first party Laravel support and the Laravel team behind your admin panel. Your team is comfortable with Vue.js and wants to extend the admin with Vue components. You prefer a per project commercial licence over building on an MIT licensed framework with no formal support channel. You need to integrate with commercial Nova packages for specialised functionality (Spatie's Nova packages, advanced reporting, etc). Your application has large datasets and complex permissions that benefit from Nova's lenses and policies. You want an admin that looks polished out of the box with minimal styling work.
Livewire is a tool, not a religion.
We build with Livewire when it fits, and with React or Vue (through Inertia) when those fit. Here is how we draw the line, instead of forcing every project into the same toolchain.
Pick Nova when
You want first party Laravel support, a clean Vue.js interface, and a per project commercial licence that includes ongoing updates. Larger commercial ecosystem of paid third party packages.
Best for
- Teams comfortable with Vue.js
- Projects needing first party support
- Commercial Nova packages already in scope
- Large datasets benefiting from lenses
- Per project licence model preferred
Pick Filament when
You want a free MIT licensed admin built on Livewire and Alpine, faster iteration with PHP only customisations, and a large community of free third party plugins. Lower total cost of ownership for most teams.
Best for
- Teams strong in Livewire and PHP
- Projects with multiple admin panels (no per project fee)
- MIT licence preferred for total ownership
- Fast PHP only iteration valued over Vue extensibility
- Larger community of free plugins
How we recommend honestly: for teams already shipping with Vue, Nova is the right call. For teams already shipping with Livewire, Filament is the right call. For new projects without an existing preference, we suggest Filament for the lower total cost of ownership unless the project specifically needs commercial Nova packages or first party support. Both are excellent.
Everything a production Nova admin needs.
Not just resources. The full toolkit that takes a Nova admin from license install to a polished, role scoped, production grade admin panel.
Custom Nova resources
Resource per Eloquent model with the right fields, the right relationships, sensible defaults, and search and filter discipline baked into every list view.
Custom fields
Signature capture, geolocation pickers, rich JSON editors with schema validation, complex relationship selectors, file upload fields with cloud storage, and custom validation rules.
Custom tools & pages
Nova tools for workflows that do not fit the resource model. Bulk import wizards, complex multi step forms, integration debuggers, and admin only operational pages.
Dashboards, cards & metrics
Custom value, trend, and partition metrics. Cards for stakeholder dashboards. Real time updates through broadcasting when the data demands it.
Actions, filters & lenses
Custom actions for bulk operations with confirmation flows. Filters for advanced search with date ranges, multi select, and dependent filters. Lenses for performant alternative table views.
Policies, RBAC & SSO
Nova policies tied into Laravel's authorisation system with Spatie Permission. Granular per resource, per field, per action permissions. SAML or OIDC SSO integration where needed.
Audit logs & activity tracking
Every admin action logged through Laravel's authorisation events. Audit log viewer as a custom Nova tool for compliance and incident response. Cryptographic integrity where required.
Theming & brand customisation
Custom branding with Nova's CSS variables, custom navigation, custom login screens, and white labelled admin panels for multi client deployments.
Named senior engineers on every project.
Our Nova work is led by project managers who have shipped Nova panels since Nova 1.0 and know the framework's strengths and edges.
Chirag Daxini
Project Manager, Admin Panel Lead
Six steps from resource map to launch.
Resource map in week one. Custom fields packaged from day one. Two week build sprints with working demos. Theming and policy work in the final sprint.
Discovery & Resource Mapping
Map Eloquent models to Nova resources, identify custom fields, actions, lenses, metrics, and tools needed. Output is a resource map and admin user flow signed off before kick off.
Nova License & Setup
Nova installed, licensed to the project, base resources scaffolded, and authentication configured with role based access through Spatie Permission.
Resource Build & Pest Tests
Resources built in two week sprints with Pest tests on every field and action. Custom fields packaged as reusable Nova packages from day one for maintainability.
Tools, Cards & Metrics
Custom Nova tools for workflows that do not fit the resource model. Cards and metrics for the dashboard. Filters and lenses for advanced search.
Policies, Roles & Audit Logs
Nova policies tied into Laravel's authorisation system. Role based access matrix documented. Optional audit log integration for every privileged action.
Theming, Deploy & Handover
Brand theming with Nova's CSS variables, production deployment, runbook handover including upgrade procedure for future Nova releases.
The tools we use for production Nova admins.
Production tested across fintech, healthcare, logistics, and SaaS Nova panels. Mature, supported, and well documented.
Nova core
Frontend & UI
Auth & permissions
Popular Nova packages
Async & reporting
Monitoring & QA
A Laravel Nova admin we shipped.
One detailed snapshot from Nova work across our 1,300 plus delivered projects. Full case studies sit in our portfolio.
Logistics platform Nova admin managing 50 plus resources for 200 plus operations staff
"We replaced a homegrown admin panel that nobody wanted to maintain with a Nova build that the operations team genuinely enjoys using. Acquaint shipped 50 plus resources, custom dispatch tools, real time fleet metrics, and proper role based access in just over four months."
A growing logistics platform handled fleet management, route planning, shipment tracking, customer support, and billing through a homegrown Blade plus jQuery admin built five years earlier. The admin was used by 200 plus operations staff across three regional offices. Three problems were compounding: the admin was undocumented and only two engineers could safely modify it, role based access was inconsistent across modules, and the platform had outgrown what a single page Blade admin could reasonably present.
Four month rebuild on Nova 4 covering 50 plus resources across fleet, drivers, shipments, customers, billing, and reporting. Custom Nova tools included a real time dispatch board with live GPS integration, a route planner that consumed Google Maps API, and a billing reconciliation tool that processed end of day fleet finance. Custom fields covered geolocation pickers, signature capture for driver delivery confirmation, and a JSON editor for fleet vehicle configuration. Spatie Permission powered granular RBAC across operations, finance, support, and read only compliance roles. Audit logs captured every privileged action with cryptographic integrity. Cutover ran tenant by tenant over three weeks, with the old admin retired one week after the final regional office migrated.
Three ways to engage on a Nova build.
Most clients run Fixed Price for the initial Nova build, then switch to Dedicated Developer for ongoing resource extensions and custom tools as the application evolves.
Dedicated Developer
- Full time, exclusive to your product
- 176 hours per month per engineer
- 5 day developer replacement clause
- Direct Slack and email access
Fixed Price Nova Build
- Discovery, resource map, build, QA, launch
- Project lead, Nova engineers, QA included
- Two week sprint demos throughout
- Post launch handover with docs
Time & Material
- Hourly billing, weekly invoices
- Scale team up or down on demand
- Effective rate from $18 per hour long term
- Full transparency on hours worked
Questions teams ask before starting a web app project.
Cannot find your answer here? Speak directly to our team. No sales pitch.
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What is a Laravel web application?
A Laravel web application is a server rendered or hybrid web app built using the Laravel PHP framework. It can serve interactive dashboards, multi tenant SaaS products, customer portals, internal business systems, marketplace platforms, or anything that needs structured server side logic with a polished user interface. Laravel handles routing, database access, authentication, queues, real time events, and testing out of the box, so engineering teams ship faster than writing raw PHP and end up with code that is much easier to maintain over the years.
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How long does it take to build a web application with Laravel?
A focused MVP usually ships in 6 to 10 weeks with two engineers. A mid sized business application with several modules, third party integrations, and a polished admin lands in 3 to 5 months. Enterprise web platforms with multi tenancy, compliance work, and heavy custom logic typically run 6 to 12 months. The timeline depends on feature scope, decision speed, and how complete the specification is on day one. We share a week by week estimate after the discovery call.
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What types of web apps can be built with Laravel?
Almost any server backed web product. The common types we ship are multi tenant SaaS platforms, internal business systems, customer portals, marketplace and listing platforms, content management systems, fintech and payment backends, learning platforms, healthcare and telehealth tools, real time dashboards, and APIs that power mobile apps. Laravel scales from a single founder MVP all the way to enterprise grade systems running across multiple servers.
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Is Laravel suitable for large web applications?
Yes. Laravel is used in production by FedEx, Disney Hotstar, BBC, Razorpay, and Pfizer, all of which run very large web applications. For scale, we use queue workers with Horizon, Redis caching, read replicas, horizontal scaling on Forge or Vapor, and asynchronous job processing. We have shipped Laravel platforms serving 40,000 plus concurrent users and 80,000 plus loan applications per month on a single architecture.
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Does Laravel work for real time web applications?
Absolutely. Laravel ships with native real time support through Reverb (the official WebSocket server), broadcasting events through Pusher or Ably, and Livewire 3 for reactive UI without a separate SPA. Common real time features we build include live notifications, collaborative dashboards, chat, live order tracking, and presence indicators. For deeper real time work we pair Laravel with Livewire and Alpine.js. More on our Livewire development page.
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How much does Laravel web application development cost?
A focused Laravel web app MVP starts around $12,000 to $20,000. Most mid sized business apps land between $30,000 and $90,000. Enterprise platforms with multi tenancy, compliance, and integrations typically run $80,000 to $250,000. Dedicated Laravel developers at Acquaint Softtech start at $22 per hour or $3,200 per month full time. A full breakdown sits on our Laravel development cost page.
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How do you scale a Laravel web application?
Scaling Laravel is well understood. We profile bottlenecks with Telescope and Pulse, move heavy work to queues processed by Horizon, cache aggressively with Redis, introduce read replicas for the database, and horizontally scale the application layer through Forge or Vapor. For very large workloads we add CDN caching, edge functions, and asynchronous event driven flows. We have taken Laravel applications from a 12 second cold start to sub second response times in three sprints.
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Web application vs website in Laravel, what is the difference?
A website is mostly informational with limited interactivity. A web application has logged in users, data that persists, business logic, and workflows. Both can be built with Laravel, but a web application uses Laravel's full strength (authentication, authorisation, database modelling, queues, events, real time, testing) while a website often runs on a much lighter setup. If you log in, perform actions, and the system remembers state, you are looking at a web application.
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Do you build greenfield web apps or also rebuild existing ones?
Both. Roughly 60 percent of our Laravel work is greenfield, where we take a fresh idea or specification and ship the first production version. The other 40 percent is replatform work, where we modernise legacy PHP or migrate from CodeIgniter, WordPress, or older Laravel versions. For replatform projects we maintain feature parity, run shadow testing, and cut over with zero data loss. More on our migration services page.
What teams usually pair with Nova.
Nova is one part of the Laravel admin ecosystem. Most clients combine the core Nova build with one or more of these.
Filament Development
Free MIT alternative admin panel on Livewire and Alpine for teams preferring PHP only.
Livewire Development
Reactive Laravel apps in PHP and Blade without a separate JavaScript framework.
Inertia Development
React or Vue frontends with Laravel backend through Inertia for full SPA experiences.
Enterprise Development
Compliance grade Laravel applications with Nova admin and audit log integration.
SaaS Development
Multi tenant SaaS with Nova admin for the back office team.
Custom Development
Bespoke Nova fields, tools, and custom Vue components for your admin needs.
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