Laravel Headless Ecommerce

A headless ecommerce package for Laravel.

Installation:

composer require bjerke/laravel-headless-ecommerce

Publish and run migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="ecommerce.migrations"
php artisan migrate

If you want to change the default configuration:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="ecommerce.config"

If you want to change the included lang files:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="ecommerce.lang"

Extending functionality of models

All models used by this package can be overridden with your own versions. Just extend the original ones and configure your model class in the config file.

Product

- Product types
- Laravel Scout
    - Searching, default driver, disabling (driver = null)
- Laravel Media Library
    - Images
    - Files
- Laravel Translatable
- Laravel Sluggable

Variations

- Variation syncing

Prices

- MoneyPHP
- VAT
- Optinally sync prices against exchange rate by running the SynPrices job on schedule (otherwise it will only update if the base price changes)

Deals

Stock

- Multiple stock types / stores (web, shops etc)
- Current stock / Incoming stock / Outgoing stock
- Low stock event
- Optional schedule to remove old stock logs

Categories

- Laravel Nested Set

Properties

Stores

Brands

Cart

- Optional schedule to keep track of expired carts
- Optional schedule to remove expired carts

Orders

Order logs

- Optional schedule to remove old order logs
- Optional schedule to remove old payment logs

Shipping

Payments

- Omnipay

Translations

- Laravel Translatable

Commands

These are commands that you can optionally add to your schedule to have some things run automatically.

• ecommerce:clean-abandoned-carts - Checks for expired carts and deletes them (suggested to run daily)
• ecommerce:check-expiring-carts - Triggers expiring cart event (suggested to run daily)
• ecommerce:clean-order-logs - Deletes order logs older than the config ecommerce.orders.log_ttl (suggested to run daily)
• ecommerce:clean-stock-logs - Deletes stock logs older than the config ecommerce.stock.log_ttl (suggested to run daily)
• ecommerce:clean-payment-logs - Deletes payment logs older than the config ecommerce.payment.log_ttl (suggested to run daily)

Events

• CartExpiring
  • This event will fire when a cart is about to expire (if a schedule for ecommerce:check-expiring-carts is setup). This can be useful for sending notifications to the customer to come back and finish their purchase.
  • Keep in mind that these can be triggered multiple times for the same cart. If you are sending a notification, you probably need to check if you've already sent this notification so you don't spam your customers.
• LowStock
  • This will fire when the low stock threshold is reached after updating stock.
  • Keep in mind that these can be triggered multiple times for the same cart. You probable need to keep track if you have already acted on this event before.

Routes

To see all registered routes run:

php artisan route:list

You can override routes in two different ways. First way is to write your own controller, extending the original one, then configure that controller in the config file (similar to the config for models). The second way is to publish the route file.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="ecommerce.routes"

This will completely decouple the routefile within the package. Now you are free to change whatever you like. Keep in mind though that possible future updates to the route file will have to be migrated manually to your custom file.

There are also some configuration options regarding routing, such as prefix to use, default global middleware and which authentication middleware to use. You can look more closely in the config file of this package so see what you can change.

Authentication & Authorization

Default authentication middleware to require logged in user is auth:api. You can configure this in the config file.

We are also using the can middleware, to prohibit unauthorized access to non-public endpoints. You can use packages like Bouncer or Spatie Laravel Permission to handle abilities, or define your own Gates & Policies.

Abilities used:

• manage-products
• manage-brands
• manage-categories
• manage-deals
• manage-prices
• manage-orders
• manage-prices
• manage-properties
• manage-shipping-methods
• manage-stocks
• manage-stores

Customers / Users

This package does not provide any logic for handling customers or logged in users. This is up to the implementing application to add. As an example, you might want to add a user_id column to the orders table to be able to link it to a user account. Just change the migration after publishing and then extend the appropriate models/observers/controllers to handle this new column.

Disabling scout

You can disable the automatic Scout integration by defining the following in your .env file

ECOMMERCE_USE_SCOUT=false
SCOUT_DRIVER=null

Requirements

• PHP 7.4+
• Taggable cache store (like redis, memchached etc)
• SQL Database that supports JSON column type
• Intl extension
• A queue worker running

Packages used

• Laravel BREAD
• Laravel API Query Builder
• Laravel Scout
• MoneyPHP
• Spatie Laravel Media library
• Spatie Laravel Sluggable
• Spatie Laravel Translatable
• Laravel NestedSet
• Omnipay

Ideas for improvement

Points marked with (?) are unsure if relevant to this package scope

• Deals
  • Discount code
  • Gift cards
  • Bundles (?)
• More product types:
  • Digital content
  • Subscription
  • Preorders
  • Configurable products
• More media types
  • Video (?)
• On demand stock
• Optionally reserve stock upon adding to cart
• Wishlists (?)
• Favorites (?)
• Reviews/Rating (?)
• Cart
  • Optionally reserve stock upon adding to cart
• More alternatives to shipping pricing
  • Dynamic (calculated based on ordered products)
  • Tiers?
  • Free shipping above X order value?
• Product upsell, cross-sell
• Suppliers
  • Procurements
• PoS features (?)
• Prisjakt/Pricerunner integration - Separate package
• Facebook / Instagram shopping (?) - Separate package
• Google Shopping (?) - Separate package
• Webhooks (?)
• Statistics (?)
• Import / Export products (?)