Money is unforgiving
Totals, discounts, tax, and refunds have to agree across the storefront, the receipt, the payment provider, and the ledger.
Products
A storefront where the cart and the admin share one schema.
The commerce package is not a plugin bolted to the side of the framework. It is 35-plus models with the same defineModel() shape as everything else, which is why a product page, the checkout, the fulfilment screen, and the nightly report all read the same rows without an integration layer between them.
What this always turns out to involve.
The work that arrives whether you planned for it or not.
Checkout is a state machine
Stock reservation, payment intents, webhook confirmation, and failure recovery all have to survive a browser closing mid-flow.
Someone has to run the shop
Orders get edited, refunded, and re-shipped by people who are not developers.
Catalogue work never stops
Variants, coupons, gift cards, and seasonal pricing arrive after launch, not before it.
What is already in the box.
All of it in the same install, typed against the rest of your application.
Catalogue
Products, variants, categories, collections, and reviews, each a model you can extend in app/Models/ rather than fork.
Checkout and payments
Carts, orders, coupons, gift cards, and Stripe payments including webhooks, refunds, and stored payment methods.
Shipping and tax
Zones, rates, methods, and tax rules live in config and models, so a quote at checkout and an invoice line come from the same calculation.
Receipts and mail
Order confirmation, shipping, and refund mail render from STX templates and go out through the queue.
Storefront and admin
STX views for the shop and a commerce dashboard for the people running it, both against the same models.
Search that stays fresh
The useSearch trait indexes catalogue changes as they happen, through Meilisearch or Algolia.
The layers it leans on.
Every one of these ships in the same install. Follow one to see what it covers.
From the command line.
Buddy scaffolds, runs, and ships this the same way it does the rest of the app.
buddy migrate
buddy seed
buddy dev
Next door to this.
Projects of this shape usually grow into one of these.