Last week I wrote about using Laravel’s Cashier package to create a subscription-based site. It was based on my experience creating a small SaaS site that serves Caldera Forms users. If you read that article, you might have wondered why I didn’t use Easy Digital Downloads or WooCommerce, or even my own plugin Caldera Forms. All of those have plenty of tools for creating and managing recurring subscriptions. One answer is that I wanted to learn something new, but I actually found it easier for what I wanted to do. My last article was very technical. In this post, without […]
Using Laravel Cashier With BrainTree For Your SaaS
I recently created my first subscription-based SaaS service, a form to PDF service for users of my plugin Caldera Forms. I built the application using the PHP framework Laravel, making use of their Cashier package for the subscription billing. In this article, I want to show you how I did this on a technical level. SaaS options are becoming more and more prominent in the WordPress community, and the only tutorial I could find out there was using Stripe, not BrainTree. Those were useful, but I wanted to use Braintree as it offers both credit card and PayPal. I figured it […]
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