Web Application
Payroll & HRIS, Multi-Tenant Laravel App
A multi-tenant payroll and HRIS application built with Laravel, using subdomain-based tenancy so each company gets an isolated workspace for employees, payroll runs, and HR records.
A payroll and HR information system built on Laravel with true multi-tenancy, where each client company operates on its own subdomain with fully isolated data.
The problem
Payroll is the least forgiving category of business software. It is legally sensitive, it runs on a deadline every cycle, and one company seeing another company salary data is not a bug you recover from. Multi-tenancy has to be correct from the first migration, because retrofitting isolation into a live payroll system is close to a rebuild.
What I built
Tenant isolation with Stancl/Tenancy. Each client company gets isolated data rather than a shared table with a company_id column and a hope that every query remembers to filter on it.
Subdomain routing. Each tenant reaches the system on its own subdomain, which keeps the boundary obvious in the URL as well as in the database.
Employee records, payroll processing and HR workflows. The day-to-day operation, built to be run by non-technical HR staff.
Migration and seeding discipline. Tenant-aware migrations, so onboarding a new company is a repeatable command rather than a manual database exercise.
The stack
Laravel with Blade, MySQL and Stancl/Tenancy, deployed to production. Laravel earns its place here: queues, migrations, auth scaffolding and a mature tenancy package remove weeks of work and mean the next developer can read the codebase.
Where this architecture applies
Anything where separate customers share one deployment but must never share data. Payroll, accounting, healthcare records, property management. If your product has companies as customers rather than individuals, tenancy is the decision to get right before anything else is built.
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