Laravel Development Services

64% of PHP Developers Use Laravel. We’ve Been Shipping It for 11 Years.

Laravel is the most popular PHP framework by a wide margin, with 64% adoption among PHP developers (JetBrains State of PHP 2025). PHP itself powers 71.5% of the server-side web (W3Techs, May 2026). In 2024, Taylor Otwell raised a $57M Series A from Accel to build Laravel Cloud and invest in the framework’s future. In February 2025, Laravel 12 shipped alongside Laravel Cloud, redesigned starter kits, and the acquisition of Inertia.js.

Laravel isn’t going anywhere. The question is whether the team building your Laravel application has the depth to do it right.

EltexSoft is a boutique engineering studio. 35-50 senior engineers. We’ve been building production Laravel applications since 2015. Our clients include a long-running EdTech marketplace, a LegalTech platform that has recovered over €100M for passengers across 10 years, a healthcare marketing platform with EHR integration, a fitness app, a photography marketplace, and a FoodTech platform that was acquired. We don’t build demos. We build systems that run for years.

What We Build in Laravel

SaaS Platforms

Multi-tenant architecture with tenant isolation (single-DB row-scoped or database-per-tenant via stancl/tenancy), subscription billing with Laravel Cashier (Stripe and Braintree), role-based access control via spatie/laravel-permission, feature flags, self-serve onboarding, audit logging, and tenant-aware queue workers via Horizon.

HeyTutor is a long-running Laravel partnership. The platform connects students with tutors across B2B (school districts) and B2C (parents) channels. Laravel powers the matching engine, scheduling, payments, messaging, and reporting, all from a single codebase that has scaled with the business since 2018.

Marketplaces

Two-sided and three-sided marketplace backends: search and matching, identity verification, split payments and escrow, dispute workflows, ratings, real-time messaging, and operator dashboards built with Filament.

Ripe/SoRipe was a FoodTech B2B catering marketplace we built from zero on Laravel. The company was later acquired by Hungry. Snapwire is a photography marketplace connecting brands with photographers. Laravel powers the backend including photographer matching, licensing workflows, and payment processing.

LegalTech and FinTech

Claims processing, automated payouts, airline and insurer settlement integrations, court document handling, reconciliation engines, and instant-pay products.

MyFlyRight is a German passenger rights portal that has recovered over €100M for European air travelers under EU Regulation 261/2004. We’ve been their engineering partner for 10 years. The Laravel backend handles claim intake, automated airline settlement, integration with courts and ADR bodies, and payout disbursement. The system was party to European Court of Justice rulings.

This is the same class of engineering as building a payments platform: double-entry correctness, idempotent operations, third-party API resilience, and audit trails.

Healthcare

EHR integration, patient tracking, campaign attribution analytics, clinical workflow automation, and HIPAA-aware audit logging.

RiseMD is a healthcare marketing platform serving dental and medical practices across the US. The Laravel backend integrates directly with electronic health record systems to track patient journeys from ad click through appointment booking through treatment completion. Campaign ROI is measured in actual revenue generated, not clicks or impressions.

Fitness and Content Platforms

Training plan engines, video content delivery, paywall and subscription management, mobile app backends.

MOTTIV (formerly Triathlon Taren) is a fitness and training app platform. Laravel powers the content management, training plans, user state, and mobile API.

API-First Backends

REST and GraphQL APIs for mobile apps, partner ecosystems, and microservice architectures. Sanctum for first-party token auth, Passport for full OAuth2 when third-party developers consume the API. Versioned routes, OpenAPI specs, request signing, rate limiting per tenant tier.

The Laravel Stack We Use in Production

Framework: Laravel 12 for new projects. We maintain apps on Laravel 10+ and handle upgrades.

ORM: Eloquent with automatic eager loading (Laravel 12.8), query scopes, and custom casts. We know when to drop to raw queries and when to use read replicas.

Auth: Sanctum by default. Passport only for third-party OAuth2. Never roll-your-own.

Queues: Redis-backed, managed by Horizon. Auto-scaling supervisors, separate queues per priority, failed-job monitoring, --max-time and --max-jobs for memory safety. We use this for everything from email to payment processing to AI API calls.

Performance: Laravel Octane on FrankenPHP or Swoole for hot paths. Redis caching. Database indexing discipline. Most “Laravel is slow” problems are N+1 queries and missing indexes, not framework overhead.

Admin panels: Filament (25M+ Packagist installs). Faster than building a custom admin from scratch. Used for internal ops dashboards across every client.

Frontend integration: Inertia.js with Vue or React for SPA-feel apps without a separate API. Livewire for server-rendered reactivity. Blade for traditional server-rendered pages.

Testing: Pest layered on PHPUnit. Feature tests and unit tests. CI gates that block merges on failing tests.

Billing: Laravel Cashier for Stripe and Braintree. Subscription management, metered billing, invoicing, payment method handling.

Multi-tenancy: stancl/tenancy for database-per-tenant. Custom row-scoped tenancy for simpler use cases.

Deployment: Laravel Forge, Vapor (serverless on AWS Lambda), Laravel Cloud, or custom Kubernetes, whichever fits the client’s infrastructure.

Legacy Migration: CodeIgniter, Kohana, and Vanilla PHP to Laravel

We’ve migrated multiple production codebases from legacy PHP frameworks to Laravel. The most common source frameworks are CodeIgniter (still running in thousands of production apps with no upgrade path), Kohana (abandoned since 2017), CakePHP, and custom vanilla PHP applications.

Our migration playbook:

Map patterns, not files. CodeIgniter controllers become Laravel controllers. CI Active Record queries become Eloquent. CI helpers become service classes. CI config arrays become .env plus config/. CI auth becomes Fortify or Sanctum. CI hooks become middleware and events.

Keep the database. Most clients keep their existing MySQL or PostgreSQL. We generate Laravel migrations from the current schema and layer Eloquent models on top. No “big bang” database migration.

Build the regression test harness first. Pest feature tests against the legacy app’s observable HTTP behavior become the contract for the new app. The tests pass before and after migration, or we don’t ship.

Ship one bounded context at a time. Auth and users first, then billing, then the core domain, then reporting. Each context goes live behind a reverse-proxy split while the legacy app continues serving the rest.

Decommission only when telemetry confirms parity. Error rates, response times, and business metrics must match or improve before we kill the legacy route.

Typical timelines: a 50-80K LOC CodeIgniter app reaches feature parity in 3-6 months. A 200K+ LOC enterprise app with heavy integrations takes 9-18 months.

When Laravel Is the Right Choice (and When It Isn’t)

Choose Laravel when:

• You’re building a SaaS platform, marketplace, CRM, ERP, or content-driven application
• You need a batteries-included backend with auth, queues, billing, notifications, and admin out of the box
• Your team is PHP-proficient or you want to hire from the largest web-framework talent pool
• You need to ship an MVP in weeks, not months
• You’re migrating from legacy PHP and want a modern, maintainable framework

Don’t choose Laravel when:

• You need sustained 100K+ concurrent WebSocket connections per node. Use Node.js, Elixir/Phoenix, or Go.
• You’re building ML training pipelines or CPU-bound numerical workloads. Use Python.
• Your team has deep Django or Rails experience and no interest in PHP. Productivity comes from the team, not the framework.
• You need hard-realtime or embedded systems. Out of scope for any web framework.

We’ll tell you honestly which stack fits your project. The goal is a working product, not a framework loyalty test.

What It Costs

Senior Laravel engineer (dedicated): $50-99/hr. A full-time dedicated developer costs $8,000-$16,000/month.

By project type:

Simple internal tool or CRUD app: $8K-$25K, 4-8 weeks.

REST/GraphQL API for an existing product: $25K-$60K, 2-4 months.

SaaS MVP with auth, billing, and one core workflow: $30K-$80K, 2-4 months.

Multi-tenant SaaS with RBAC, plans, admin, dashboards, and integrations: $80K-$250K, 4-8 months.

Two-sided marketplace with matching, payments, and disputes: $120K-$300K+, 6-12 months.

Legacy migration (CodeIgniter/Kohana to Laravel): varies by LOC and integration count. We quote after a paid 1-2 week migration audit.

Compare to US-based senior Laravel agencies at $120-$200/hr, or Indian rates at $20-$50/hr where code quality and timezone alignment vary significantly.

Who We Are

EltexSoft is a boutique Laravel development company. 35-50 senior engineers. Headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal. Engineering team in Ukraine. Founded in 2015.

Our Laravel clients include HeyTutor, MyFlyRight (10 years), RiseMD, MOTTIV, Ripe/SoRipe (acquired by Hungry), and Snapwire. We also build with React, Vue, Python/Django, iOS, and Android.

5.0 Clutch rating across 30+ verified reviews. 200+ five-star Upwork reviews. Top Rated Plus and Expert-Vetted agency status (top 1%). Average client engagement: 3+ years.

The team that builds your Laravel MVP is the team that maintains it in year three. That matters because Laravel applications that survive long enough to make money are the ones with engineers who understand the codebase deeply enough to say “we should refactor this now, before it becomes a problem.”

30-minute technical call. Bring your architecture questions, your legacy codebase, or your napkin sketch. We’ll tell you what we’d build and what we wouldn’t.

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