Laravel Nova admin panels, built by people who actually ship them.

Laravel Nova is the official administration panel for Laravel applications, built by the Laravel team and maintained by Tighten and the official Laravel organisation. 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. Nova is commercial software ($199 per project licence) and is the right call when you need a production grade admin panel with first party support and the official Laravel team behind it.

Pick Nova when you want first party Laravel support, a clean Vue.js admin interface, and a per project licence fee that includes ongoing updates. Nova has a larger commercial ecosystem of paid third party packages. Pick Filament when you want a free MIT licensed admin built on Livewire and Alpine, faster iteration with PHP only customisations, and a larger community of free third party plugins. Both produce excellent admin panels. The choice comes down to your team's frontend preference (Vue vs Livewire) and licensing model. We build both, and we will recommend honestly based on your team. More on our Filament development page.

Nova itself costs $199 per project for a solo licence or $299 per project for a team licence, paid once per project and including one year of updates. Building a Nova admin around your application is the development cost on top. A focused Nova admin with 10 to 20 resources and basic custom fields typically costs $6,000 to $18,000 and ships in 4 to 8 weeks. A mid sized Nova admin with custom resources, tools, dashboards, and metrics lands between $20,000 and $50,000. Dedicated Laravel Nova 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.

Everything that matters. Custom resources for any Eloquent model. Custom fields (we have built fields for signature capture, location pickers, rich JSON editors, and complex relationship pickers). Custom tools that live as full pages in the Nova sidebar. Custom cards on dashboards. Custom metrics (value, trend, partition). Custom actions for bulk operations. Custom filters for advanced search. Custom lenses for alternative table views. Theming, navigation, branding, multi-tenant scoping, and role based access through Nova policies. The Nova API exposes nearly every part of the panel for customisation.

Yes. Nova is production ready and used by thousands of Laravel applications in production today, including parts of Laravel's own commercial products. Nova is maintained by the official Laravel team and Tighten, ships with regular releases and Laravel version compatibility, and has a paid commercial support channel. We have shipped Nova panels for fintech, healthcare, logistics, and SaaS clients serving 10,000 plus admin users daily.

Yes. For large datasets we use Nova lenses (custom queries that perform well on millions of rows), pagination tuning, indexed search, and Eager loading patterns. For complex permissions we wire Nova policies into Laravel's authorisation system with Spatie Permission, giving granular control per resource, per field, per action. We have shipped Nova panels managing 50 plus resource types with thousands of permissions combinations across multiple user roles.

Yes. Migrating an existing custom admin (Blade plus jQuery, Vue SPA, or third party panel) to Nova is a common engagement. We map existing admin pages to Nova resources, port custom workflows to Nova actions and tools, and migrate role based access to Nova policies. Most admin migrations to Nova ship in 6 to 12 weeks depending on complexity. The Laravel application itself stays untouched, only the admin layer changes.

We have built private Nova packages for clients covering: signature capture fields, geolocation pickers, advanced JSON editors with schema validation, multi-tenant scoping middleware, Stripe Connect payout tools, Bagisto product catalog bridges, audit log viewers with cryptographic verification, CSV import wizards with column mapping, and webhook debuggers. Most of these are private to the clients they were built for, but the pattern is the same: clean Nova package structure, Vue components when needed, Pest tests covering the PHP layer, and Storybook documentation for custom Vue components.

Yes. Major Nova version upgrades are scoped as separate engagements because they require dependency audits, regression testing on custom fields and tools, and careful planning when third party Nova packages are involved. Most Nova 3 to 4 or 4 to 5 upgrades take 2 to 6 weeks depending on customisation depth. More on our Laravel upgrade service 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. Custom Nova fields, tools, cards, and resources built for your project are yours, not white labelled or licensed back. The Nova licence itself is a separate commercial agreement between you and the Laravel team.