Integration guides

Laravel Integrations

Connect your Laravel application with the best services for payments, email, SMS, search, and more.

Integration chooser

Match the provider to the workflow that must survive production.

Use the provider guide that matches the business event, then collect sandbox access, production credentials, webhook URLs, owner approvals, and cost limits before implementation starts.

Payments and subscriptions Stripe for checkout, invoices, refunds, failed payments, customer records, and webhook-driven billing state. Location and routing Google Maps for address capture, geocoding, route planning, quotas, billing controls, and bad-address review. Transactional email Mailgun for account, order, invoice, and support emails with DNS authentication, queues, bounces, and suppression handling. SMS, WhatsApp, and voice Twilio for phone verification, reminders, consent, opt-outs, delivery callbacks, rate limits, and cost controls. Infrastructure and background work AWS for S3, SES, SQS, EC2 or RDS, IAM boundaries, backups, monitoring, queue workers, and deployment notes. Search and relevance Algolia for searchable models, private-data boundaries, facets, synonyms, ranking rules, reindexing, and query costs.

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Payments

Stripe

Accept payments, subscriptions, and marketplaces with Stripe.

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Maps

Google Maps

Maps, geocoding, routing, and location search.

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Mailgun

Transactional email with high deliverability.

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SMS

Twilio

SMS, voice calls, and WhatsApp messaging.

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Cloud

AWS

S3, SES, SQS, EC2, and more.

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Algolia

Lightning-fast search with typo tolerance.

Laravel integration planning

Choose integrations around the workflow, not the logo.

Laravel can connect to almost any payment, email, search, mapping, SMS, or cloud service, but the useful work is deciding how the integration supports the business process. Somnio starts with the data flow, failure cases, operations, and handoff needs before choosing packages or writing API code.

This matters because the expensive part of an integration is rarely the first successful API call. The long-term cost comes from unclear provider settings, missed webhook events, missing queue workers, weak admin visibility, and undocumented deployment steps. These guides show the common decisions behind each integration type.

Scope first

We define which models, events, jobs, notifications, and admin screens need to change so the integration supports real users after launch.

Plan failure states

Payments fail, emails bounce, queues retry, APIs rate-limit, and maps return bad addresses. Those cases are part of the implementation plan.

Document ownership

Every integration handoff includes source code, environment notes, provider settings, deployment steps, and maintenance guidance for future changes.

If you already know which provider you need, start with the matching guide. If not, compare the workflow first: payments for revenue, email and SMS for communication, maps for location, search for findability, and AWS for infrastructure.

For a real project, the final scope should include provider accounts, sandbox access, test credentials, production credentials, data migration expectations, and the person responsible for approving external service costs.

That preparation turns an integration request into a maintainable product feature instead of a one-off connection.

It also makes future audits easier because the reason for each provider, credential, webhook, and background job is documented.