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E-commerce Starter Stack

Essential libraries for building an online store with payments, PDF invoices, and email notifications.

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Framework

Laravel's ecosystem includes packages for e-commerce like Cashier for subscriptions and built-in queue support.

Alternatives: symfony

Payments

OmniPay provides a unified API for multiple payment gateways, making it easy to support Stripe, PayPal, and more.

PDF Generation

Generate professional invoices and receipts as PDF documents from HTML templates.

Send transactional emails for order confirmations, shipping updates, and marketing.

Caching

Use Redis for session storage, caching product data, and managing shopping carts.