Laravel development · UKClient portals, internal dashboards and web applications built on Laravel. For businesses that have outgrown WordPress and off-the-shelf software, and want something they actually own.
Laravel is the framework we reach for when a project stops being a website and starts being software. It suits work where the logic is genuinely yours: a portal your customers log into, a dashboard that answers questions your other systems cannot, an application built around a process no off-the-shelf product handles properly. It is mature, widely used and well documented, which matters more than it sounds, because it means the code we write can be picked up by any competent developer rather than only by us. We build, host and support from our team in Poole, and we work with clients across the UK.
EB Software, our software arm, covers this kind of work in more depth on its web application development page, from customer portals to dashboards and business systems.
A secure place for customers to see their own information, sign, pay or upload, without your team chasing.
One view of the numbers and jobs that currently live across several systems and a spreadsheet.
Software shaped around a process that no off-the-shelf product gets right.
Pulling data between the platforms you already run, reliably and on a schedule.
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Permissions, roles, scheduled jobs, queues and reporting are part of the framework rather than five plugins hoping to agree with each other.
Authentication, input handling and access control come from a maintained framework used by thousands of production applications, not from bolted-on extras.
The code and the data are yours. Nothing is rented, and another competent team can pick it up if you ever part ways with us.
Wondering where your own website falls short? Tell us what you are working with and we will tell you honestly, for free.
Get honest adviceWe map the process you actually run, including the awkward exceptions, because that is where the build is decided.
Screens designed to be used all day by your team or your customers, not just to look right in a screenshot.
A properly modelled database, so the reports you want next year are possible without unpicking everything.
Connections to the systems you already depend on, built to fail safely rather than silently.
Who can see and do what, defined properly from the start rather than patched in once someone sees the wrong figure.
UK hosting, updates and a team in Poole you can ring, long after launch.
Developers, designers and marketers under one roof in Poole, and you are welcome to come and meet them.
If an off-the-shelf tool does the job, we will say so. Laravel is the right answer often enough that we do not need to oversell it.
Trading since 2010 with 400+ clients. We host, support and extend what we build rather than handing it over and disappearing.
Design, content and search are the same team, so the application and the website around it are not two separate projects.
Rather talk it through? Call 01202 237027 and speak to the team, or send us a message.
Send us a messageWe map the process, the data and the exceptions, then agree what the first version has to do.
Screens and database designed together, so the thing is usable and the data is sound.
Built in stages you can look at, tested properly, refined before anyone depends on it.
We take it live, train your team, then keep improving it based on how it actually gets used.
A focused first version is usually eight to sixteen weeks. We agree scope and a clear plan before any development starts.
The exact timeline and cost depend on your project. Tell us what you have in mind and we'll come back with both, no pressure.
Tell us about your projectThree applications now doing real work for their businesses every day, each one built because the off-the-shelf answer had run out of road.
A busy WooCommerce store whose data was locked inside it. We built a portal alongside the shop that answers the questions the store could not, and took their consent record back from a third party.
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Fox Wardrobes run the whole business through a single custom system, replacing scattered spreadsheets, paper cut lists and personal inboxes with one place where nothing gets lost.
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A prestige car dealership needed order paperwork signed and paid without the endless chasing. The portal we built does the chasing itself, and keeps the record.
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Most Laravel work we are asked for falls into one of three shapes. All three start from the same place: something important is currently held together by a spreadsheet and somebody's memory.
A secure page of a customer's own where they can read, sign, pay or upload. The chasing stops being somebody's job.
A read-only view alongside the system you already run, answering the questions it cannot, without any risk to the original.
The whole job in one place: quotes, payments, scheduling and aftercare, shaped around how the work actually flows.
Common questions about cost, timelines, ownership and whether you need a custom build at all.
It is a widely used PHP framework for building web applications. The practical point for a business is that it handles the serious parts, logins, permissions, scheduled jobs and data structure, properly and as standard, rather than through a stack of plugins.
If you need a website with pages, WordPress or a similar CMS is usually the cheaper and better answer, and we build plenty of them. Laravel earns its place when the site has to do something: portals, logins, complex permissions, real business logic.
A focused first version is usually a serious five-figure investment rather than a small one, and eight to sixteen weeks. Scope is what drives the number, so we agree what the first version must do before quoting.
You do, along with the data. That is one of the main reasons to build rather than rent: if you ever move on from us, another competent Laravel team can pick it up.
Yes, and that is often the right arrangement. A portal can sit alongside an existing site or store, reading from it rather than replacing it, which keeps both simpler and safer.
We host it, keep the framework and dependencies updated, and extend it as your process changes. An application nobody maintains becomes a liability, so support is part of the arrangement rather than an afterthought.
Tell us what the software has to do and we'll come back with honest advice and a clear quote, including when the answer is to buy something instead.
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