TenantForge – Laravel 13 Multi-Tenant SaaS Starter Kit with Vue 3

Build your next SaaS product with Laravel 13, Vue 3, TypeScript and Docker.

TenantForge is a self-hosted SaaS starter kit designed for developers, freelancers, agencies and startups who want to build applications with multiple customers, teams and workspaces.

It provides the foundation for user authentication, tenant management, role-based permissions, subscriptions, dashboards and platform administration, allowing developers to focus on their own business-specific features.

The project includes complete, editable source code, database migrations, Docker configuration, automated tests and technical documentation.

Multi-Tenant Workspace Management

TenantForge uses a shared-database, multi-tenant architecture with tenant-scoped application resources.

Features include:

• Workspace creation and onboarding

• Multiple workspaces per user

• Workspace switching

• Tenant-scoped data access

• Workspace-specific settings and branding

• Subdomain-based workspace access

• Custom-domain verification

• Tenant-aware cache and file handling

The application provides an example Projects module that demonstrates how to build tenant-scoped functionality.

Authentication and Account Security

TenantForge includes account authentication and security features built into the Laravel application.

• User registration and login

• Email verification

• Password reset and recovery

• TOTP two-factor authentication

• Two-factor recovery codes

• Optional Google and GitHub authentication

• Profile and password management

• API token management

• Account access protections

Google and GitHub authentication require credentials from the respective providers.

Team Management and Permissions

Workspace owners can invite members and manage access to workspace resources.

• Email-based team invitations

• Member management

• Custom roles and permissions

• Permission-controlled application features

• Member suspension and removal

• Workspace ownership transfer

• Activity and audit records

These features provide a starting point for SaaS applications where users collaborate within the same organization or workspace.

SaaS Plans and Usage Management

TenantForge includes an application-level subscription and plan management system.

• Subscription plan records

• Trial periods

• Plan assignment

• Feature and usage limits

• Quota tracking and enforcement

• Subscription status management

• Platform-level subscription administration

Important: Payment gateway processing is not included. To collect subscription payments, developers must integrate their chosen payment provider and configure the required billing workflows and webhooks.

Workspace Dashboard

The workspace dashboard provides an overview of application activity and workspace information.

It includes dashboard statistics, charts and navigation to important workspace functions.

The Vue interface can be customized to display product-specific metrics, reports and workflows.

Platform Administration

TenantForge includes a separate administration area for SaaS platform operators.

Administrative modules cover:

• Platform dashboard

• Workspace and tenant management

• User management

• Plan and subscription administration

• Trial management

• Tenant suspension and reactivation

• Application settings and feature flags

• Announcements and leads

• Audit activity

• System health information

Administrative access is protected by role and authentication requirements.

Branding and Custom Domains

The application supports workspace-level customization and domain management.

• Workspace branding

• Logo and favicon management

• SaaS subdomains

• Custom-domain requests

• DNS ownership verification

• Domain status management

Custom domains require suitable DNS and HTTPS configuration in the deployment environment.

API and Developer Features

TenantForge provides an extensible Laravel application structure.

• API authentication tokens

• Example API endpoints

• Tenant-scoped project operations

• Laravel controllers, models, policies and middleware

• Database migrations and seeders

• Queue and scheduled-task infrastructure

• Automated test suite

• Technical documentation

Developers can extend the example module or create their own SaaS features using the existing tenancy and permission architecture.

Technology Stack

Backend: Laravel 13, PHP 8.3+

Frontend: Vue 3, TypeScript, Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS, Vite

Database: MySQL 8+

Infrastructure: Docker Compose, FrankenPHP, Redis

Development tools: Composer, npm, PHPUnit

The supplied Docker application image uses PHP 8.4.

What Is Included

The downloadable package contains:

• Complete Laravel backend source code

• Vue 3 and TypeScript frontend

• Workspace and tenant management modules

• Authentication and security features

• Team management and permission system

• Subscription and usage management modules

• Workspace and platform dashboards

• Example Projects CRUD module

• API controllers and token functionality

• Database migrations and seeders

• Dockerfile and Docker Compose configuration

• Composer and npm dependency lockfiles

• Automated tests

• Environment configuration example

• Installation and deployment documentation

• Commercial license file and third-party notices

Application source code is supplied without the vendor and node_modules directories. Dependencies are installed during setup.

Installation

The recommended local development environment is Docker Desktop with Docker Compose.

After extracting the project:

1. Copy .env.example to .env.

2. Configure the application environment.

3. Run docker compose up -d --build.

4. Open http://localhost:8000.

5. Register an account and complete email verification.

6. Create a workspace through the onboarding process.

MailHog is included in the local Docker environment for testing emails.

The package also provides instructions for a manual Laravel installation.

Who Is This Project For?

Laravel developers: Start building a SaaS application without recreating account, tenant and team management.

Freelancers: Use the codebase as the foundation for a customized client project, subject to the included license.

Development agencies: Build a client-specific SaaS application using an extensible Laravel and Vue architecture.

Startup founders: Develop an MVP around existing workspace, account and subscription-management modules.

Students and experienced learners: Explore Laravel multi-tenancy, authentication, authorization and full-stack application architecture.

Customization

TenantForge provides editable application source code.

Developers can customize the interface, branding, database models, business rules, dashboards and application features according to their requirements.

The starter is designed to be extended rather than treated as a finished SaaS product for a particular industry.

Important Information

TenantForge is a downloadable source-code product, not a hosted SaaS service.

Buyers are responsible for their own hosting, domain registration, email services, deployment configuration and third-party integrations.

Payment processing, managed hosting, production infrastructure and ongoing maintenance are not included in the source-code purchase.

Installation, deployment and feature customization assistance can be requested separately through KritimYantra.

Usage and redistribution rights are governed by the commercial license included with the purchased release.