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SaaS boilerplate
“SaaS boilerplate” is one of the highest-volume kit searches. Most results are Next.js zip starters or Laravel scaffolds. Electrik answers the same job on Laravel — without treating your app as a disposable fork of someone else’s auth.
What buyers mean by SaaS boilerplate
A reusable starting point for a subscription product: accounts, workspaces or teams, Stripe (or similar), roles, emails, and a dashboard. Marketing sites call the same thing starter kit, template, or boilerplate interchangeably.
Volume is real (thousands of monthly searches for “saas boilerplate”), but intent splits: indie Next.js launches, agency client builds, and Laravel teams who already standardized on PHP.
Three delivery models
- Zip / git template — copy the repo; you own every file and every upgrade conflict
- Official scaffold (Jetstream/Breeze) — Laravel-native dump into app/; great DX, no opinionated SaaS billing shell
- Composer package (Electrik) — require and install; shell stays vendor-owned on a major line; you build product in App\
How Electrik fits the boilerplate job
Electrik is a Laravel SaaS starter kit shaped like a package: teams + Stripe Cashier on the team + Spatie permissions + Slate UI. You run composer require and php artisan electrik:install.
If your team is on React/Next, a Laravel package is the wrong boilerplate. If your team ships Laravel client SaaS or an in-house product, package-first avoids the “Jetstream + Spark + theme” glue tax.
Boilerplate checklist (use on any kit)
- Who is the Stripe customer — user or team/workspace?
- Can you upgrade the kit without merging auth by hand?
- Are commercial terms clear (MIT zip vs BSL/commercial)?
- Is the UI a real system (tokens/components) or one-off markup?
- Will coding agents extend App\ safely, or edit dumped scaffold forever?
FAQ
- Is Electrik a SaaS boilerplate?
- Yes in job-to-be-done terms (auth, teams, billing, shell). It is distributed as a Composer package rather than a zip boilerplate.
- Why not just use a free Next.js SaaS boilerplate?
- If your stack is Laravel, switching to Next for a boilerplate creates long-term staffing and hosting choices. Pick the kit that matches the language you will maintain.
- Does Electrik include multi-tenant databases?
- No. Electrik uses team workspaces as the tenant model in a single database by default. Multi-database tenancy is out of scope for the current line.