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150+ projects delivered for UK and international brands

Laravel Development Agency in London

Bespoke Laravel applications for London brands that need APIs, admin, portals and SaaS backends — maintainable PHP you can still own in two years.

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Bespoke Laravel applications for London brands that need APIs, admin, portals and SaaS backends — maintainable PHP you can still own in two years.
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Performance-led Laravel delivery

Laravel services built for commercial, operable products

Design Dev is a London Laravel agency delivering APIs, customer portals, billing hooks and staff admin for UK teams. We combine domain modelling, queues and disciplined engineering so the application supports operations — not a weekend prototype that dies with the original developer.Roles, tests on the expensive paths, and a handover a new engineer can run are part of the Laravel brief. Pretty CRUD without jobs, policies or staging is not a product.
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Custom Laravel Development

Bespoke Laravel apps with clean modules, queues and conversion-led or ops-led structure — not a default install.
Custom Laravel Development
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Laravel API Development

JSON APIs, jobs and domain logic that React apps, partners and admin can share.
Laravel API Development
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Laravel Admin & Portals

Staff tools and customer portals with real permissions, files and status — not an unguarded dashboard.
Laravel Admin & Portals
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Laravel Integrations & Billing

Stripe, HubSpot, warehouses and webhooks — queued, logged and idempotent.
Laravel Integrations & Billing

A clear Laravel process from domain model to launch

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Laravel discovery & domain

Users, data, jobs and what must never be lost — before we open a migration.

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Laravel architecture

Modules, queues, environments, auth and how React or apps will talk to the API.

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Laravel build in slices

Vertical slices you can click. Not a six-month big bang of untested PHP.

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Laravel QA & hardening

Tests on money and auth, backups, roles, and staging that matches production enough.

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Laravel launch & handover

Docs, who deploys, Horizon/queues observed, optional retainers for upgrades.

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Why Laravel remains the right choice for custom UK products

Why Laravel remains the right choice for custom UK products

Laravel gives London businesses a proven PHP framework for APIs, portals and operations software without locking into a closed SaaS. It supports billing, roles, queues and partner integrations while remaining practical for a team to own.When developed properly, Laravel becomes a commercial asset: queued work, policies, a README a new engineer can follow, and integrations that do not live as request-time spaghetti.

  • Clear Laravel domain modules
  • Queues for slow and IO work
  • Policies and roles as default
  • API versioning where consumers need it
  • Stripe and webhook hygiene
  • Tests on money and auth paths
  • Staging that matches production enough
  • Handover documentation, not folklore

Complete Laravel capabilities

From API to admin — Laravel products built to be operated, upgraded and handed over.

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Laravel Website & App Backends

Custom Laravel for startups, SMEs and established London operators.

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Laravel REST API Development

JSON APIs for web, mobile and partners with auth and error contracts.

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Laravel Admin Systems

Filament or custom admin fitted to how staff actually work.

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Laravel Customer Portals

Auth, files, order/job status and billing views your clients can use.

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Laravel SaaS Backends

Plans, seats, usage hooks and tenancy patterns when the product needs them.

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Laravel Stripe Integration

Payment Intents, Billing, webhooks and refunds that update the domain.

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Laravel CRM / ERP Connectors

Queued jobs to HubSpot, Xero, warehouses — not request-time spaghetti.

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Laravel Reporting & Exports

Dashboards and CSVs that do not lock the database at month-end.

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Laravel Takeover & Rescue

Audit tests, deps and deploy on an existing Laravel app before we touch features.

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Laravel Security Hardening

Policies, rate limits, secrets, audit of writes.

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Laravel Maintenance & Upgrades

PHP and Laravel upgrades with a plan, not a surprise weekend.

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Laravel Hosting & Deploy

Environments, queues and backups specified to match the app.

Ready for a Laravel application that performs — and that you can still own?

Speak with Design Dev about Laravel APIs, portals and backends with queues, roles and a handover your next engineer can run.

Laravel expertise across key industries

Professional Services

Industry focus

Professional Services

Laravel portals, document workflows and practice tools that off-the-shelf CRMs distort.

  • Laravel portals
  • Document workflows
  • Client status
  • Reporting APIs

Why Design Dev

A London Laravel partner focused on operable software, not a black box

Design Dev works with founders and operations leads who need more than a Laravel tutorial. We combine domain modelling, queues and disciplined delivery so the PHP product still runs when the original developer is gone.Expect clear architecture, tests on the paths that hurt, and a handover — not a zip of undocumented controllers.

150+

Projects delivered

5+

Years experience

UK+

London & worldwide

A London Laravel partner focused on operable software, not a black box

Strategy, design and engineering for brands that need a website that performs.

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Architecture before screens

Laravel modules, data and jobs are designed before the admin multiplies.

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Build what you will own

Clean Laravel code, repo, docs and environments — not a black-box prototype.

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Security as Laravel default

Policies, roles, audit logs and sensible hosting for business systems.

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Support after Laravel launch

Upgrades, queue health and feature slices so the product does not freeze on day one.

Technologies we work with

Laravel

Laravel

PHP

PHP

MySQL

MySQL

JavaScript

JavaScript

React

React

HTML5

HTML5

CSS3

CSS3

Stripe

Stripe

HubSpot

HubSpot

WordPress

WordPress

Node.js

Node.js

Figma

Figma

What clients say

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Design Dev transformed our e-commerce platform. Their team was efficient, responsive, and delivered a stunning layout that doubled our conversion rate within a month.

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Sarah Jenkins

Vauxhall Marketing - Shopify Development
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An absolute pleasure to work with. They understood our brand identity perfectly and designed a clean, user-friendly SaaS platform that our clients love.

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David Thorne

FluxGig - UI/UX Design
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The custom WordPress build is super fast and easy for our content editors to update. Outstanding attention to detail and SEO optimization.

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Amara K.

Apsara Cosmetics - WordPress Development
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They built a highly custom, secure medical inventory portal on-budget. Their engineering skills are top-tier.

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Julian Reed

Upcycled Medical - Web App Development
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From logo creation to full visual guidelines, Design Dev gave our construction firm a modern and premium corporate look.

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Emily Watson

Smart Build UK - Branding & Design
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Our organic search traffic increased by 150% in three months. Their SEO team really knows their stuff.

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Marcus Sterling

Supra Cycling - Search Engine Optimization

We worked with largest global brands

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FAQ

Laravel development FAQs

Straightforward answers to the questions we hear most often about scope, timelines, and how we work.

Laravel is a strong fit for custom APIs, portals and operations software. It is not a substitute for WordPress when the job is content. We recommend based on the problem.

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Tell us about your Laravel project

Share the product job, users, integrations (Stripe, HubSpot, shop) and whether an API or admin is the centre. We will outline a Laravel approach.

UK Branch Office

London, United Kingdom

2 Bessborough Gardens, Westminster, London, UK

+44 7459 579227

Development Center

Sialkot, Pakistan

2nd Floor, Yousaf Plaza, Opposite Mazeeo Sadar Bazar, Sialkot Cantt

+92 337 4905 313
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