Outsource Laravel Development to Senior Engineers
When the brief is more application than website, Laravel is where we build. Outsource it to us and you get web apps, SaaS products, client portals and APIs engineered properly, by people who have shipped and maintained real Laravel products, not just followed a tutorial.
Some of our direct clients
Why Teams Outsource Laravel To Us
Senior UK engineers who have shipped and maintained real Laravel products, available under your brand and under NDA when you need the capacity without the headcount.
Applications, Not Just Sites
SaaS platforms, client portals, internal tools and dashboards, built on a framework made for exactly this.
API and Integration Work
We connect systems that were never meant to talk to each other, cleanly and reliably, with the data integrity to match.
Codebase Rescue
Inherited a Laravel app that nobody wants to touch? We review it honestly and give you a realistic path forward.
Built to Scale
Queues, scheduled jobs, caching and a sensible architecture, so the product holds up as usage grows.
Senior by Default
You work with engineers who make good decisions unprompted, not juniors you have to check line by line.
UK Based
A Northamptonshire team on UK hours, reachable directly, so decisions do not wait a day for a reply.
The Laravel Stack We Build On
SaaS products, client portals, APIs and integrations engineered on Laravel, with queues, scheduling and Vue through Inertia where a product needs to feel like an application, delivered to your spec.
Laravel & Bespoke Platforms
For systems and platforms that require bespoke processes, data handling complex integrations or internal business platforms with security at the forefront of the build.
WordPress & WooCommerce
For fast, reliable and easy to manage brochure based websites built following best practice with a bespoke theme powered by ACF Pro and supporting custom built plugins.
Shopify & Shopify Plus
For eCommerce and retail brands looking to grow revenue significantly online. Built using a bespoke theme specific to your brand and with a full seamless migration from legacy platforms.
Recent Direct Client Projects
Clintons Cards
A full migration from Magento 2 to Shopify Plus, with order, customer, product, stock and finance integrations kept live through the switch.
Ecommerce · Shopify Plus · Integrations
QualityHive
A Laravel platform that web agencies use to capture, assign and close website bugs, taken from wireframe to launch, then handed over as clean, documented code.
SaaS platform · Laravel · API integrations
The Sauce Foundry
A brand, a WooCommerce store and product photography for an artisan hot sauce startup, launched to a 3.8% conversion rate from day one.
Ecommerce · Branding · WooCommerce
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Clients Say
Consistently rated 5* on Google by our full build clients and retainer clients.
Zestcode really have proven to be “website design & development specialists” whilst maintaining the very best customer service. Not easy to find a well-rounded company like Zest these days that tick all the boxes. 5*
Head of Marketing, Masterclip
After working with Zestcode for over 2 years I wouldn’t trust any other web developers. An agency that are committed to getting the project right and going above and beyond expectations.
Director, Novus Digital
Harry and his team have just finished producing our new website, his team have done an amazing job producing our website and their continuous communication throughout made the process a lot easier.
Director, JL Phillips
The whole process was efficient, fast and incredibly well managed. Communication was clear throughout, they understood exactly what we were trying to achieve, and they delivered without unnecessary delays or complications.
Director, Teaching Tomorrow
The main project Zestcode did for us was developing our bespoke Laravel system, which involved complex API integrations and secure data management. They were knowledgeable, responsive and easy to work with throughout.
Managing Director, Heath Crawford
Zestcode are a superb web design and development agency. Everything they produce is top quality. Harry is super responsive, always gets back to you quickly, and is an absolute pleasure to work with.
Marketing Manager, Which Health Cover
Working with Zestcode has been a genuinely positive experience from start to finish. What stood out most was how much time they took to understand how the project would fit into our existing processes before diving in. Rather than just building to a spec, they asked the right questions upfront.
Marketing Manager, Roof Maker
Zestcode Digital have just finished my website and I am beyond thrilled with it! I highly recommend their services not only are they professional and proficient but incredibly helpful.
Director, Select Art Gallery
It's an easy and enjoyable process working with Zestcode Digital, highly recommended.
Director, Whoisvisiting
Their team is highly responsive, especially in time-sensitive situations, and their ability to deliver reliable solutions quickly has been a huge asset. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to anyone looking for dependable web development support.
Marketing Manager, Slick Gorilla
Having close communication with Harry throughout the whole project has been invaluable. He always makes sure to explain things thoroughly and helped me understand all the different aspects of the project that I needed to know.
Director, All Abroad
Outsource Laravel Development FAQs
Outsource Laravel Development to People Who Have Shipped It
Laravel is easy to start with and easy to get wrong at scale. Outsourcing it well is less about finding someone who knows the framework and more about finding a team that has lived with the consequences of their own architecture. Here is how we approach it.
The kind of work Laravel is right for
We reach for Laravel when a project stops being a page and starts being a product. That covers SaaS products, client portals, booking and order systems, internal tooling and the portal and platform development that businesses build their operations on.
Its strengths are the unglamorous ones that matter: authentication, an expressive database layer, queues, scheduling and a first-class testing setup out of the box. That means the effort goes into the logic that makes your product unique rather than rebuilding the same plumbing every team rebuilds.
Taking over an existing codebase
A good share of our Laravel work is not greenfield. It is an app someone else built that has drifted, lost its original developer, or simply outgrown whoever has been holding it together. We start with a review of the code, the dependencies and the test coverage, then give you a plain assessment of its condition and what ongoing work will realistically cost.
If it needs an upgrade path before new features are sensible, we say so up front rather than quietly billing around the problem. The point of outsourcing to a settled team is that the knowledge does not walk out of the door again.
Sitting on a Laravel app that has stalled?
Send us access to the repository and we will come back with an honest read on its condition and what moving it forward realistically involves.
How we keep it maintainable
Heavy work runs on queues so requests stay fast, scheduled jobs handle the recurring tasks, and the API integrations that connect your app to the outside world are built with the data integrity to be trusted. We pair Laravel with a Vue front end through Inertia where a product needs to feel like an application rather than a set of pages.
Everything is documented as it goes and built to a shared standard, so the app is something your own team, or ours, can pick up again later without a fight. If you need this delivered entirely under your brand, our white label Laravel development service covers that, and the broader arrangement is set out on our outsource web development page.
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Tell us what you're looking for and we'll see how we can help. Quotes are typically provided within 2 working days of the initial call.