SAP to open-stack ERP migration
Manufacturer, 500+ employees. Phased migration off SAP ERP onto an open stack with custom modules — run in stages while the plant kept working.
- 0 downtime
- 8 mo migration
- −40% on licences
Laravel development by people who maintain what they ship
Laravel is the fastest route to a serious business application when the domain is heavy on rules and light on novelty. We use it where it wins and say so where it does not.
What we can show you
Overview
Where Laravel fits, and where it does not
Laravel is the fastest route to a serious business application when the domain is heavy on rules and light on novelty.
What Laravel is good for, and where it stops being the answer
Laravel is a PHP framework with conventions strong enough that five developers write code that looks like one person wrote it. That matters more than raw performance on business applications, where the expensive part is not speed but the second year of changes.
It carries the boring essentials out of the box — auth, queues, migrations, scheduling, mail, storage — so a team spends its budget on your domain rather than on plumbing.
When Laravel is the right call
Rule-heavy domains, fast time to first release, and a hiring pool you can recruit from after we leave. It stops being the answer for hard real-time and CPU-bound work, and we will name a better stack rather than sell you ours.
Signals Laravel fits your project
- the product is mostly forms, rules, roles and reports;
- you need a working version in weeks, not quarters;
- someone will maintain it after handover, and you can hire for it;
- integrations and queues matter more than raw throughput;
- there is already PHP in the company, or no strong constraint against it.
Price
From $7,990
Timeline
3 weeks to first release
Payment
50/50 by milestone
Comparison
Laravel or Symfony
Both are PHP and both are good. The choice is about team and domain size.
Criterion
SymfonyLaravel
LaravelSymfony
Time to first release
Slower — more explicit wiring
Faster — conventions do the wiring
Very large domain models
Stronger boundaries
Needs discipline to keep boundaries
Hiring pool
Smaller, more senior
Larger at every level
Convention vs configuration
Configuration
Convention
When it wins
Enterprise domains, strict architecture
Business apps, speed, maintainability
Scope
What we build with it
Where this stack earns its place in a project, and what we would use instead if it did not.
Business applications
Internal systems, back office, approval flows and the reporting that has to agree with the source data. Laravel's conventions keep a five-person team consistent without a style war.
API backends
Backends for web and mobile clients, with typed contracts and versioning — so the front end can move without waiting for a deploy.
Integrations
ERP, accounting, carriers, payment providers. Queue-heavy work — imports, documents, notifications — designed for retries rather than hope.
Upgrades
Laravel 8 or 9 to current, done incrementally with tests as the safety net rather than a big-bang rewrite weekend.
Fit
When it is the right call — and when it is not
The best stack is usually the one your team can maintain after we leave.
Right for
CRUD-heavy domains with a lot of business rules, teams that will maintain the code after us, fast time to first release, and a hiring pool you can actually recruit from later.
Not right for
Hard real-time systems, heavy CPU-bound computation, or an existing team that only knows Node or Python. We will name the better stack even when it is not ours.
Rates
$28–55/hour by role
Fixed builds
From $7,990
Discounts
Dedicated −10% · partners −15%
How we work
How we keep a Laravel project boring
The part that is specific to this stack rather than true of every project.
Why us
Why teams bring us in for this stack
Four things we can prove, not four adjectives.
We maintain what we ship
Pest or PHPUnit on the flows that make money, migrations that rebuild any environment from scratch, and static analysis in the pipeline.
Fixed price where scope allows
Laravel projects are predictable enough that most of them can be quoted fixed — and we do, with the date attached.
Your repository from commit one
Code, infrastructure and CI in your accounts, IP assigned at delivery with a documented chain of title.
Upgrades without a rewrite weekend
Laravel 8 or 9 to current, incrementally, with tests as the safety net rather than hope.
Industries
What we buildfor your industry
Laravel carries our logistics, property and e-commerce back offices — domains that are all rules and integrations.
- IT companies and digital agencies
- Insurers and brokers
- Lenders and microfinance
- E-commerce
- Wholesale and distribution
- Manufacturing
- Freight and forwarding
- Clinics and medical centres
- Dental
- Car dealers and service centres
- EdTech
- Legal and consulting firms
- Equipment rental
- Real estate agencies
- Property developers
- Travel and events
- Beauty and wellness
- Construction and renovation
FAQ
Questions we get about this stack
Answered by the people who would do the work, not by a sales team.
Can you take over an existing Laravel project?
Yes, starting with a paid audit: version, dependencies, test coverage, data model, deployment. Then a fix plan with hours before anyone promises a date.
Do you upgrade legacy Laravel versions?
Yes, incrementally, with characterisation tests around the parts nobody understands any more.
Laravel or Symfony?
Laravel for speed and hiring pool; Symfony for very large domain models and strict architectural boundaries. We build both and will recommend against ourselves if your team already knows the other.
Livewire and Inertia, or a separate front end?
Server-driven for internal tools; a separate React or Vue front end for products with rich interaction. It is a maintenance decision, not a preference.
Can you work alongside our in-house Laravel developer?
Yes — a common staff-augmentation setup, with our tech lead reviewing pull requests at no extra charge. See staff augmentation.
What do your Laravel development services include?
Laravel web development services from architecture to deployment: application code, API, queues, tests and CI. As a Laravel development agency we can also take over an existing codebase after a paid audit.
2–4×
faster on the code-writing share
in 3 weeks
from idea to MVP
230+
projects delivered
17 years
of engineering experience
Work
Work we can show you
SMARTWILL
Digital inheritance service (Web3)
AIRDEVELOPPA
Indoor air quality finder driven by sensor data
CAR5
Car-sharing app
APP.DENTAL
Cloud CRM for dental clinics
NEXORA
Warehouse and logistics management platform
As-built docs
Digital as-built documentation
EX211
Telegram Mini App for currency exchange
SMARTWILL
Digital inheritance service (Web3)
Need this stack with a senior review included?
Tell us what exists today — a green field, a legacy codebase, or a team that needs two more pairs of hands. We answer with a scope, a price and a date.
We do not take work on a stack we cannot review internally at senior level.