Fast, secure, and easy to use, Laravel continues to gain traction as it climbs to the top in 2025. With over 2.5 million live sites and 740,000 active domains built using the Laravel framework, Laravel is the fastest-growing PHP framework on the web. If big players like 9GAG, Pfizer, and the BBC use Laravel, it’s fairly secure to say they trust the best framework for flexibility and scalability.
In this blog post, you can read about numerous real-world Laravel applications—spanning SaaS, FinTech, eCommerce, healthcare, LMS, enterprise, and many more—backed up with case studies, statistics, and actionable insights. We believe that regardless of whether you are a startup founder, a CTO, or anything else in between, you will walk away from this blog with reasons backed by evidence or at least some confidence about taking the next steps towards crafting your new Laravel site.
1. SaaS Platforms | Invoice & Subscription Systems
Laravel has become a go-to framework for building SaaS (Software as a Service) platforms in 2025, and for good reason. It offers a rich ecosystem of tools like Laravel Cashier for subscription billing, Sanctum for API token authentication, and Laravel Echo for real-time updates, making it incredibly efficient for developers building complex, multi-user applications. Laravel’s architecture supports advanced queuing systems, notification dispatch, and seamless API integrations, all of which are critical for modern SaaS performance.
A prime real-world example is Invoice Ninja, an open-source SaaS tool designed for freelancers and small businesses to manage invoices, payments, expenses, and proposals. Today, over 100,000 businesses rely on Invoice Ninja to streamline their billing operations (source, source). The platform leverages Laravel Cashier to manage recurring payments and uses Laravel’s queue system to handle tasks like sending emails and generating PDFs asynchronously, improving speed and user experience.
What makes Laravel especially advantageous with respect to SaaS situations is both its modularity and its straightforward route toward self-hosting. Developers can quickly and easily generate production-ready SaaS platforms with fewer dependencies, reusable components, and a document-friendly ecosystem. Simplifying all of this is a shortcut toward efficiency, and means getting a SaaS platform to market and planning for the long-term life of the platform.
Ultimately, to showcase a SaaS use case, Laravel can reduce SaaS development time by a range of 30-40%, largely due to the provided components and already-scaled implementation, which allows developers a level of flexibility for both startup and enterprise SaaS products.
2. Enterprise CRM / ERP Systems
For developers building large-scale customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, Laravel is a proven framework with scalability and customization, and an architecture model that sustains scalable development. Unlike purchasing a non-customizable solution out of the box, Laravel provides a platform for building customizable workflows, user permissions, dashboards, and reports specific to how a business operates.
Another great reason that Laravel would be a strong option for an enterprise-level code base is the architecture and support for solid modular development. When, or if, enterprise-level application code bases need to accommodate role-based access, modular routing systems, powerful route groups, and strong container bindings that support secure APIs, it’s all easy to create and manage due to Laravel’s quality architecture. Similarly, when you’re able to build things more quickly using tools like Laravel’s Nova (admin panel generator), you mitigate build time for administrative backend panels (CRUD) for managing users, managing invoices, managing leads, managing projects, and managing reports; all features of customizable CRM/ERP systems.
One great example is MyRank, which is a fully cloud-based ERP for student solutions that was built from scratch using Laravel. MyRank is an ERP for education that manages everything from students, exams, and analytics on student performance. Laravel was pre-packaged with the ability for MyRank developers to scale the platform to thousands of students and schools while still being able to scale and maintain speed.
In other examples, Laracom, an open-source eCommerce CRM created completely in Laravel, highlights the ways in which you can build a complete enterprise-level backend with multi-language support, user permissions with roles, tax inclusion/distribution, and inventory control and management using Laravel’s native features and packages.
Use case takeaways: The beauty of Laravel’s developing ecosystem and clean code structure means teams can develop custom CRMs or ERPs in record time while controlling the complete functionality, extensibility, scalability, and user roles, which traditional CRM systems can never achieve. Enterprises needing tailored backends while maintaining performance, maintainability, and security should certainly consider Laravel.
3. eCommerce & Retail
Laravel lends itself well towards the building of modern eCommerce platforms that require flexibility, security, and scalability, especially now in 2025, following extremely high pandemic expectations of online retail experiences. Whether creating a custom, branded, online store, with/or multiple vendors, or synchronized inventory with physical outlets, Laravel can provide you with all the reusable parts to create fully customized commerce systems without the shackles of off-the-shelf platforms.
What distinguishes Laravel for eCommerce is its flexible support for custom checkout flows, securely processing payment transactions, organizing multi-language support, and managing inventory. With flexible packages like Bagisto, which is a Laravel-based open-source eCommerce platform, developers can get B2B modules, POS integrations, and multi-vendor stores up and running quickly. Bagisto is used by hundreds of retailers, from completely new retailers to medium-sized distributors, globally, who just needed a solid base to build their eCommerce system on and grow with.
Another example of a Laravel eCommerce project is World Walking. World Walking is a health and retail-oriented web app that gamifies walking challenges and offers product access through donations. World Walking showcases not only how Laravel can build a traditional cart, but also how Laravel can accomplish a hybrid eCommerce experience that invites digital content, community, and unique/regional UX.
For retailers looking to consolidate their ERP, CRM, and online storefront on a single ecosystem (while avoiding paying for crowded SaaS fees), Laravel can give retailers full-stack control on everything from product recommendations, coupon engines, tax/shipping logic, and headless integration for mobile apps, or React/Vue front-ends.
Use case takeaway: Retail brands are using Laravel to launch quickly, scale easily, and customize every customer touchpoint, from product discovery through payment, while keeping control of their entire platform. If you have a big eCommerce project in mind for 2025, going with Laravel is a no-brainer compared to boxed-in platforms like Shopify or Magento.
4. Learning Management Systems (LMS) & Content Platforms
For building Learning Management Systems (LMS) and content delivery platforms in 2025, Laravel will be a premium option year after year because of the ongoing growth of online education, employee onboarding and training, and knowledge-sharing ecosystems. Unlike rigid LMS platforms like Moodle or Teachable, Laravel offers you the flexibility to create content workflows, course outlines, and control user access based on your audience and business needs.
With Laravel, you can set up your content delivery platforms to include a multi-role user system (admin, instructor, learner), enable multimedia content delivery through video and interactive assessments, allow for course tracking, and allow for automated certification and credentialing capabilities. You can easily use any of the built-in Laravel tools for building the admin dashboard (Laravel Nova), for API authentication with Sanctum, for file processing with queues, and for email and notification automation to easily build a robust, full-stack, scalable, secured educational offering without starting from scratch.
Zeraki is an excellent case study of an EdTech platform that is in use by schools throughout Kenya to deliver digital learning resources and real-time analytics of student progress. Zeraki was built using Laravel and provides tools and features such as intuitive dashboards for teachers, real-time report building for parents and students, and SMS-based performance notifications to all users, showing how Laravel can deliver content and real-time value to end-users.
Laravel allows developers to build custom content platforms like video streaming sites, online course markets, or gated repositories of knowledge. Packages like Laravel Livewire and Spatie Media Library allow designers to create complex live learning experiences without needing to depend on JavaScript frameworks in most cases. For example, video uploads, transcoding, and embedding in your LMS can happen through job queues/back-end processes, which are very handy when you are managing hundreds of courses.
So, takeaways on the use case: If you are creating a niche tutorial site, a corporate training site, or a fully functional LMS for a university, Laravel gives publishing and front-end designers ultimate control over the course logic, monetization, management of site access, and custom UX. Laravel is for educational platforms that require more than just video hosting—the platforms need intelligence, personalization, and performance.
5. Healthcare & Patient Portals
Laravel is being adopted in the healthcare technology marketplace with an eye on creating secure, user-focused applications like patient portals, appointment scheduling systems, and dashboard systems for health records. In 2025, when compliance demands are only increasing (i.e. HIPAA, GDPR, and other data privacy related legislation), Laravel will shine as a choice because of its built-in security features, mature architecture, and fast/efficient development ecosystem.
Most considerations for compliance are out-of-the-box features that Laravel offers, such as CSRF protection, password hashing, email verification, and role-based access controls. In addition, the ability to quickly scaffold (and secure) APIs when using something like Laravel Sanctum or Passport makes Laravel a unique and powerful backend for mobile health applications and telemedicine tools.
A great example is CareSet, which builds data platforms that utilize Medicare claims data. Their backend systems (some/build mostly in Laravel) process large datasets and patient-level insights while enforcing stringent privacy and governance controls. While their fuller stack goes beyond Laravel, it demonstrates how a Laravel application can be used with healthcare-grade data tools and maintain scale and compliance.
For smaller healthcare providers, Laravel is able to offer custom solutions for any of the following use case scenarios:
Appointment setting and reminders
Medical delivery reports
Billing and insurance claims
Telehealth dashboards and video call integration
Another example is Doximity, a physician networking platform that uses Laravel components in part of their internal toolsets, like job boards, messaging, and physician profiles. This shows that Laravel can stand up to a large volume, as seen in a B2B healthcare-grade use case with thousands of users.
The queue system (supports emails, generating reports, and background jobs) and notification system (SMS, in-app, email) are both very helpful in the healthcare space, as they are each vital to timely communication and reliability.
Use case takeaway: Laravel presents healthcare companies the ability to build HIPAA-compliant, scalable, secure healthcare platforms with extensive data handling and user management functionality at low turnaround times while maintaining great UX.
6. Fintech Applications & Secure Portals
Laravel is a solid alternative and an exciting choice for fintech, one of the few industries where the security of data, integrity of transactions, and real-time performance matter. Fast forward to 2025 and Laravel is being used by new startups, as well as veteran financial businesses, to build investment dashboards, wallet systems, loan management apps, and payment gateways.
Why Laravel Works for Fintech:
Secure-by-Design: Laravel comes with CSRF protection, SQL injection prevention, secure password hashing (with Bcrypt or Argon2), and encryption of sessions.
Two-Factor Authentication & Role-Based Access: Laravel Jetstream and Laravel Breeze make setting up multi-user authentication (with admin, auditors, and customers) simple.
Background Jobs: Laravel features such as Horizon and job queues enable you to queue time-consuming work such as statement generation, transaction summaries, and OTP distributions.
API-First: Pick a great API “first” framework like Laravel to have secure APIs with Laravel Sanctum (for SPAs, mobile apps, etc), or Passport (for OAuth2 compliant systems).
Real Example: Barchart
Barchart.com is a premier financial data destination for analysts and traders across the globe. The company is leveraging Laravel in its backend framework for real-time dashboards, aggregating insights from financial news, and account management features.
Barchart.com processes millions of data points daily, and being able to serve this information at scale was powered by Laravel’s backend routing system, caching layer (Redis), and API generation features.
Other Use Cases:
Cryptocurrency wallets with encrypted storage of tokens and transaction logs
Loan / EMI calculators that generate PDFs for proposal/approval letters
Brokerage investor portals for brokers to manage client portfolios securely
Payment collection apps that leverage the Laravel Cashier package and third-party integrations (Stripe, Razorpay, PayPal) using all of the standard payment processing APIs.
Laravel also has event broadcasting support via Echo + Pusher/WebSockets, so it works well to serve up fast and responsive user interfaces waiting for better real-time notifications (e.g., “Transaction successful”, “Limit reached”, “OTP sent”).
Market Insight: Statista stated that the global fintech industry is expected to reach $305 billion in value by 2025. Laravel provides suspected time savings for building secure MVPs and production-grade fintech applications that scale.
Key Takeaway – Laravel has embedded support for secure authentication, flexible APIs, event-driven interfaces, and a queue-based task processing system. A perfect choice for a modern fintech platform looking to be lean, fast, and compliant.
Laravel is highly used in real estate portals, property management systems, and booking engines, particularly for sites that utilize search filters, user dashboards, admin control panels, and calendars.
Why Laravel is good for Real Estate & Booking:
Advanced Search & Filters: Leveraging Laravel Scout + Algolia/MeiliSearch gives you advanced real-time searching across all listings, locations, listing types, and price ranges.
Role Based Access Control: Laravel Breeze or Jetstream lets you quickly create role based user types – agents, buyers, admins, brokers with different access permissions.
Calendar Booking Integrations: Laravel integrates nicely with FullCalendar.js and the Google Calendar API to allow booking reservations, syncing availabilities, and reminder emails to be created in real-time.
Multi-Lingual & Multi-Currency: Laravel has localization tools that help you take your real estate platforms global (supporting Ultra-wide Verilog simulation with multiple currencies and languages without manual effort).
Location Based: Integrating with Google Maps, Leaflet, and using filters for longitude/latitude make it a simple process for providing “search for options near me” style listings or listings based on a radius.
Real Example: EvAI
EvAl is a modern open-source real estate listing platform with Laravel used for the backend and Vue.js (using Vuex) on the frontend. It was developed to provide simplicity in the listing and searching for real estate properties. It provides a simple and intuitive UI with advanced filtering features and a responsive property display, leveraging the convenience of Laravel’s app routing and API.
The EvAl platform illustrates a typical use case of a Laravel stack where secure routing, user authentication, data manipulation, and role-based access come together to create a performant solution for real estate. Admins can manage properties, users can bookmark favorites, and agents can manage their profile with listings; this is all possible because of Laravel + Vue.js, allowing for dynamic interactions but still allowing for a scalable and secure backend.
Takeaway: The Laravel ecosystem is perfect for building real estate platforms that are technically robust and user-friendly. Whether to create a property rental marketplace, hotel booking system, or co-working space platform, the Laravel ecosystem is very rich, with many tools (in addition to Laravel) such as Laravel Nova for admin dashboards, Cashier for payment processing, and Sanctum for secure logins—all of which can help developers to build fast, scale easily and provide excellent UX globally.
8. Healthcare Portals & Medical Platforms
In 2025, if anything has changed, it’s that healthcare now requires less data privacy, and even more compliance,
data control for the user, and patient engagement/Satisfaction. And Laravel is an ideal backend framework for all things HIPAA-Compliant portals, telehealth environments, and hospital appointment platforms.
Why Laravel is a Great Match for Healthcare-related Solutions:
Security is Paramount: Laravel comes with CSRF Protection, session security, and encrypted user authentication – all important for patient data and HIPAA/GDPR Compliance.
Role-Based Access: Use middleware and manageable policy to create distinct user roles (doctor, nurse, admin, patient).
Appointment Management: Laravel works well with various live scheduling applications, QR queues, etc. Perfect for controlling patients wait and doctor availability.
Notifications & Reminders: Use Laravel’s notification and the Torosystem (Twilio or Nexmo) service to confirm appointments, deliver test results or prescription notice.
Exposing Your API to Wearables and Labs: Laravel makes it easy to expose secure APIs for wearable data such as Fitbit or Apple HealthKit, with external lab systems for result uploads.
Real example: Laravel-based Hospital Management Systems
HospitalRun is an open-source hospital software project using Node.js and Laravel (backend) designed to improve medical care in resource-constrained environments; EMR’s, pharmacy inventory, appointment modules.
Even custom Laravel-based implementations are frequently seen in:
Telemedicine platforms, ePrescription apps, digital pathology systems, and internal hospital CRMs.
Industry Insight
According to Statista, the global healthcare IT is projected to reach $821 billion in 2025. Laravel’s latent ability to rapidly develop around sensitive data makes it an ideal choice for start-ups and enterprises.
Use case takeaway: Laravel provides inherent security and modularity, allowing it to build scalable, secure healthcare systems ranging from a standard appointment platform to a medical portal.
9. Government & Public Service Portals
Government portals must be secure, scalable, accessible, and citizen-friendly. These are all areas where Laravel has proven to be a rock-solid backend solution. By 2025, increased public sector digitization has turned to open-source frameworks, with Laravel being strong because of its structured codebase, long-term support, and strong developer community.
How Laravel Meets Public Sector Needs:
Accessibility Compliance (WCAG): With Laravel, creating accessible frontends with Blade and Livewire is seamless. All citizens, regardless of ability, will be able to use the platform.
Audit Trails & Logs: There are packages like Spatie Activity Log that make it easy to keep an audit log of every user/system action, which is great for accountability and compliance in public service.
Data Security: Most government websites deal with sensitive citizen information. Without adequate security measures in place, those details could be exposed. Laravel comes with built-in encryption, CSRF protection, and validation tools to help ensure security.
Multilingual: Laravel comes with built-in localization, which makes translating content into other languages quick and easy, especially when it deals with regional and provincial levels of government.
Modular Development: Whether it is a job portal, utility bill assessment, or local election site, contractors will be able to quickly and easily bootstrap modular build-outs that can be scaled to a larger system later.
Real Example: Digital Bangladesh Initiative
Although it is not an official record, it has been learned that Laravel is an appropriate framework for many regional Indian and Southeast Asian e-Governance initiatives.
For instance:
RTI Online Platforms
e-Civic services
Municipal complaint portals
These initiatives frequently choose to use Laravel + Vue.js or Laravel + Livewire for a responsive user experience and secure workstreams.
Real Example: eGov Web Portals (India, Kenya, Nigeria)
There are hundreds of case studies that reference projects using Laravel (as evidenced by the GitHub repositories of regional developers) for:
E-billing applications for municipal taxes
Water/sewage connection request applications
Rural grant disbursement tracking
One example is e-Mitra Rajasthan, which inspired city-level Laravel clones to digitize citizens’ services.
What is the significance in 2025?
As reported in Gartner’s Digital Government Trends 2024 report, governments are continuing to invest in open technology stacks to avoid vendor lock-ins, while also providing better adaptability within their diverse user communities. Laravel, as a self-hosted solution that is transparent and developer-friendly, is an appropriate substitute for proprietary legacy enterprise software.
Use case takeaway: Laravel is the appropriate framework because of its adaptability and low total cost of ownership, especially for governments creating transparent digital services that are citizen-centric within an evolving tech landscape and budgetary shortfalls.
Conclusion: Why Laravel is still the choice framework for 2025
From SaaS platforms and CRMs to eCommerce and public service portals, Laravel has consistently proven to be the framework for real web apps. Nowhere will Laravel be more commonplace than in demonstrating its continued relevance in 2025.
Rapid development capabilities via built-in tools such as Cashier, Sanctum, and Horizon are undeniable.
Scalability and maintainability mean Laravel is the modern framework for a start-up/application means the average startup company can seamlessly grow from an MVP to 10,000 + users.
A vibrant community and ecosystem are growing rapidly with vuod to platforms, like Laracasts.
Security-rich features are the natural expectations. Inspiration from nonetheless worthy of current, and in addition, Laravel has clear versioning and long-term support for upgrades and transitions.
Meaningful integration and flexibility component to incorporate modern development stacks exists, which can include React, Vue, or application programming interfaces (APIs).
No matter if you are building your MVP or upon it, to add a multi-user SaaS platform, Laravel can journey with you at a and not provoke an expensive rebuild in progress!
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Yes. Laravel is one of the most actively maintained PHP frameworks in the market today. It is being used for everything from modern SaaS applications to government portals. With excellent tools such as Livewire, Nova, and Breeze, Laravel is improving and evolving with the demands of modern-day development needs.
2. Can Laravel scale for high-traffic applications?
Yes. Laravel supports horizontal scaling, queue management, caching systems (Redis/Memcached), and optimization strategies for database connections. Laravel is capable of handling millions of users.
3. Is Laravel good for startups?
It’s ideal. Startups need to ship fast, iterate faster, and optimize costs. Laravel ships with boilerplates to get you started, built-in authentication, and scaffolding tools that allow you to spend less time figuring out infrastructure and more time developing your core product.
4. What about using Laravel with React or Vue?
Laravel works great with frontend frameworks! You can pair it easily with React, Vue.js, or Inertia.js to create dynamic single-page applications (SPA) or decouple your stack into a robust backend + JS frontend.
5. What are some real companies using Laravel?
– Invoice Ninja – SaaS for invoicing – Laracasts – Developer education – Barchart – Financial Data platform – World Walking – Health tracking charity – Cachet – Open-source status page system Check out the full list of examples and URLs in the blog above.
Nirav Panchal
Lead – Custom Development
Lead of the Custom Development team at KrishaWeb, holds AWS certification and excels as a Team Leader. Renowned for his expertise in Laravel and React development. With expertise in cloud solutions, he leads with innovation and technical excellence.
