Multi tenant SaaS, built on Laravel to scale and bill cleanly.
From a pre-seed MVP to a Series A platform serving thousands of tenants, we build Laravel SaaS products that handle multi-tenancy, subscription billing, feature flags, and real time updates without the architectural debt that catches most teams in year two.
- Multi tenant architectures using Stancl tenancy, the right pattern for your stage
- Subscription billing through Cashier with Stripe or Paddle (merchant of record)
- Feature flags through Pennant for safe rollouts and per tier features
- 40 plus Laravel SaaS products shipped since 2007
The framework that quietly powers a lot of SaaS today.
Laravel SaaS, in plain terms.
A Laravel SaaS is a multi-tenant software product built with the Laravel PHP framework, where multiple customers (tenants) share one application while keeping their data, users, and configuration isolated. Customers sign up, choose a plan, get billed on a recurring schedule, and use the product through their own subdomain or custom domain.
Laravel is one of the most popular frameworks for SaaS today because the ecosystem (Cashier for Stripe and Paddle billing, Pennant for feature flags, Sanctum for SPA auth, Horizon for queues, Pulse for performance, and the Stancl tenancy package for multi-tenancy) covers nearly every SaaS requirement out of the box. Production examples include Laravel Forge, Laravel Vapor, Statamic Cloud, Fathom Analytics, and thousands of vertical SaaS platforms across HR, finance, edtech, and healthcare.
Signals you are building a SaaS, not just a web app.
Some products look like SaaS from day one. Others get there in month nine and find the architecture working against them. If three or more of these apply, you need SaaS-grade architecture from the start.
You are serving multiple customers with isolated data. You have a recurring revenue model with plans, trials, and proration. You need feature gating between tiers (Starter, Pro, Team, Enterprise). Customers want their own subdomain or custom domain. You need per tenant configuration (logo, branding, integrations, limits). You are planning to support SSO and SAML for enterprise customers down the road. The product will need usage metering for billing.
If the product is one company, one database, one admin, it is a web app. The moment customers are isolated from each other and paying separately, it is SaaS.
Three tenancy patterns. We pick the right one.
Multi-tenancy is the single biggest architecture decision in a Laravel SaaS. Get it wrong on day one and you will fight it for years. We use the Stancl tenancy package which supports all three patterns, so the choice is about which tradeoff fits your product, not which package to install.
Single Database, Tenant Column
One shared database, every tenant-owned table has a tenant_id column, queries are scoped automatically. The simplest and most cost effective pattern.
Best for
- MVP and early stage SaaS
- Hundreds to thousands of tenants
- Low to medium compliance needs
- Fastest to ship and easiest to operate
Single DB, Multi Schema
One database server, every tenant has its own PostgreSQL schema or MySQL database within the same server. Stronger isolation, slightly more operational overhead.
Best for
- Mid stage SaaS with growing customers
- Healthcare, finance, regulated verticals
- Tenants needing schema level isolation
- Easier per tenant backup and restore
Database per Tenant
Each tenant gets a completely separate database. Maximum isolation, used for enterprise tier customers, regulated industries, and data residency requirements.
Best for
- Enterprise tier customers (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)
- Data residency requirements (EU customers in EU DBs)
- Per tenant performance isolation
- Independent backup and restore per tenant
How we choose between them: for nine out of ten SaaS we start with single database tenancy. It ships fastest, costs least, and scales further than most teams realise (we have run single DB tenancy comfortably with 3,000 plus active tenants). When an enterprise customer needs stronger isolation, we move that customer to database per tenant within the same codebase, no rewrite needed. That is the actual benefit of Stancl tenancy: the pattern can change per tenant.
Everything a SaaS needs to ship and bill cleanly.
Not just the application. We deliver the full stack of SaaS work that takes a product from architecture to paid signups.
Multi-tenant architecture
Domain model, database schema, integration map, and frontend stack choice (Livewire, Inertia, or Blade) decided before code is written. No retrofitting major decisions later.
Subscription billing (Cashier)
Stripe or Paddle integration through Laravel Cashier. Plans, trials, proration, coupons, invoicing, dunning, webhooks, and full PCI compliance handled by the provider.
Feature flags (Pennant)
Gradual feature rollouts, per tier feature gating, A/B testing, kill switches, and per tenant overrides for enterprise customers.
Self-serve signup & onboarding
Marketing site signup form, email verification, trial activation, onboarding checklist, billing setup, and the first-aha-moment flow.
Tenant admin & analytics
Filament powered admin for managing tenants, plans, MRR, churn, usage, and feature flag rollouts. Real time analytics with Pulse.
SSO & enterprise auth
SAML 2.0, OIDC, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Okta SSO integration. Per tenant identity providers for enterprise customers.
Queues, jobs & real time
Pest tests on every endpoint, every workflow step, every integration. Larastan static analysis on every PR. CI through GitHub Actions on every commit.
SaaS metrics & observability
MRR, ARR, churn rate, trial conversion, feature usage per tenant. Pulse for app performance, Sentry for errors, and structured logging across tenant boundaries.
Named senior engineers on every project.
Acquaint SaaS engagements are led by senior project managers with a decade of Laravel experience. Here is who leads our SaaS work.
Jilesh Mahamunkar
Project Manager, SaaS & Cloud Lead
Six steps from idea to paid signups.
Tenancy decision in week one. MVP in 8 to 12 weeks. Cashier billing live before launch day. The boring discipline is what makes SaaS architecture stay clean.
Discovery & SaaS Architecture
Map target tenants, pricing model, tenancy pattern, billing approach, and feature flag strategy. Output is an architecture diagram and tenancy decision document signed off before kick off.
MVP Scope & Sprint Plan
Lock the smallest feature set that proves the product. Break into two week sprints with working demos at the end of every cycle.
Build with Tenant Isolation
Engineers build with Stancl tenancy, tenant-aware Pest tests, and Larastan static analysis. Every PR includes tenancy boundary checks.
Billing, Flags & Admin
Subscription billing through Cashier (Stripe or Paddle). Feature flags through Pennant. Filament admin for tenant management and SaaS analytics.
Launch with Instrumentation
Deploy through Forge or Vapor with Pulse for performance, Sentry for errors, and structured logging across tenant boundaries from launch day.
Scale as Tenants Grow
Post launch we monitor growth, add Redis caching, queue workers, read replicas, and move enterprise tier customers to stronger isolation patterns as needed.
The tools we use for production Laravel SaaS.
Production tested across 40 plus Laravel SaaS products. We pick the simplest tool that fits the problem.
Laravel core
Multi-tenancy
Billing & subscriptions
Feature flags & auth
Async & real time
Admin & monitoring
A Laravel SaaS we built at scale.
One detailed snapshot from the SaaS work behind our 1,300 plus delivered projects. Full case studies sit in our portfolio.
Multi-tenant learning SaaS serving 40K plus learners across 12 countries
"The Acquaint team rebuilt our platform on Laravel 11 with proper multi-tenancy and Cashier billing. We went from one annual contract per customer to recurring monthly billing inside three months of launch. Churn dropped, ARPU went up."
A scaling EdTech platform was running on a Laravel 6 monolith without proper multi-tenancy. Customers were tracked through subdomains but lived in the same tables, billing was annual invoicing by hand, and the team could not ship new pricing tiers without engineering work. They wanted to convert to recurring SaaS billing, support 3,000 plus tenants on the same architecture, and add white labelling for enterprise customers, without shutting the platform down.
We migrated the application from Laravel 6 to Laravel 11 with Stancl tenancy in single database multi schema mode, which gave each tenant its own schema while keeping operational overhead low. Cashier with Stripe handled subscription billing across four tiers (Starter, Pro, Team, Enterprise). Pennant managed feature flags per tier and per tenant. Horizon backed Redis queues handled exports, integrations, and weekly digest emails. Filament gave the success team a clean admin to manage tenants, plans, and feature rollouts. Migration was rolled out tenant by tenant over six weeks with zero data loss.
Three ways to engage on a SaaS build.
Pick the model that fits your stage and budget. Most SaaS clients start with Fixed Price MVP, then switch to Dedicated Developer once paying customers are on board.
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 SaaS MVP
- Discovery, architecture, build, QA, launch
- Tenancy, Cashier billing, Pennant flags included
- Two week sprint demos throughout
- Post launch handover with full 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 SaaS development.
SaaS rarely lives alone. Most SaaS clients combine the core build with one or more of these.
Cost to Build SaaS
Detailed pricing breakdown for SaaS MVP, growth stage, and enterprise builds.
API Development
REST or GraphQL APIs for your SaaS frontend, mobile app, or partners.
Enterprise Development
SSO, SAML, compliance, and enterprise tier features for your SaaS.
Laravel for Startups
Pre-seed to Series A SaaS scaling with Laravel and lean iteration.
Laravel MVP Development
Ship your SaaS MVP in 8 to 12 weeks with focused scope and rapid iteration.
Filament Admin Panels
Custom tenant management dashboards and SaaS admin built with Filament.
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