A Laravel developer builds the part of your business nobody sees: the system that holds the orders, the customer accounts, the invoices, the payments and the permissions that decide which employee can do what. Hire one by the hour when you have a process running on spreadsheets and WhatsApp, or a system somebody built years ago that nobody dares touch. The rate is 10 KWD per hour, starting with a free consultation hour.
The three jobs we get asked for most
Money. Taking payment properly, and knowing afterwards exactly what was paid. KNET first because that is what Kuwaiti customers use, cards for everyone else, and installment options where the basket justifies them. Laravel is a comfortable place for this because the awkward parts, refunds, partial refunds, retries and daily reconciliation, are ordinary work rather than plugin gymnastics. If payments are the whole job, read the KNET integration service and the MyFatoorah integration service, where a typical integration runs 10 to 27 hours.
An admin your staff will actually use. Arabic interface, roles that match real job titles, a history of who changed what, and screens designed around the way your team works rather than around the database. Most of the value in a custom system sits here, and it is the part cheap builds skip.
Connections. The website, the store, the accounting system and the warehouse each holding a different version of the truth is the most common complaint we hear. Laravel sits in the middle well, provided the other systems offer a way in, which we check before promising anything.
When to hire rather than commission
Hire by the hour when the shape of the system will change as you learn, when you want to release one useful piece at a time, or when you have your own developer who needs a stronger backend alongside them. Commission a full project through web development when the requirement is already written down and agreed.
If your existing site is plain PHP rather than Laravel, a PHP developer may be the cheaper hire, and rewriting a working system in Laravel for its own sake is not something we recommend.
What it costs
Hours times 10 KWD. A customer portal with payments, a common first build:
| Work | Hours | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Scope, data model and what version one leaves out | 4 | 40 KWD |
| Customer accounts, orders and Arabic invoices | 17 | 170 KWD |
| Gateway checkout, refunds and daily reconciliation | 17 | 170 KWD |
| Staff admin with roles and an audit trail | 13 | 130 KWD |
| Testing, deployment and handover | 7 | 70 KWD |
| Total | 58 | 580 KWD |
Gateway fees are separate and paid to the provider. Public rates are around 0.250 KWD per KNET transaction through MyFatoorah or Tap, about 0.100 KWD with KNET direct, and roughly 2.5% plus 0.100 KWD on cards through MyFatoorah. Which route suits you is covered in the gateway comparison, and longer partnerships take 15%, 30% or 50% off the hourly rate on the pricing page.
How to start
Book the free hour and bring the spreadsheet. Whatever process you are running by hand, the file itself tells an engineer more than an hour of description. You will leave with the work split into pieces you can buy one at a time, in the order that returns the most for the fewest hours, and with an honest note about anything that would be better bought than built.