You can easily show how much a customer will pay in the next billing cycle with the upcomingInvoice method in Laravel Cashier (Stripe) to get the upcoming invoice details.

Dealing with Tax calculation on checkout pages always makes me sweat, especially EU Taxes. Luckily, Stripe and Laravel Cashier, in recent releases, have simplified it.

There is a handy syncStripeCustomerDetails method available on Laravel Cashier for Stripe that lets you keep in sync your customers details.

On Paddle, a buyer can opt-in to receive marketing emails and is stored as a new audience member.

When using Laravel Cashier Paddle, the styling provided for the pay button is not the prettier. Fortunately, Laravel Cashier provides a paddle-button blade component with the option to add custom styling.

An option for a more transparent Paddle integration is to embed the Paddle's checkout widget within your existing checkout page. It can remove the sense of your users leaving your website to pay.

I have worked on a client's work where I needed to present a public demo of the work in progress App, but wanted to reset the demo after a week by restoring the database to its clean state.

Since Laravel v8.6.0, Sanctum is now the default API authentication stack. However, initially most of my projects don't need an API, but because of the Sanctum package I end up with an extra personal_access_tokens table.

I have recently moved my deployment solution to Launcher and I wanted to use it to deploy Umami in my server too. It involves a few steps.