How I Built a Complete Laravel eCommerce with Stripe & Admin Panel (And How You Can Too)

After weeks of building, I finally shipped a complete Laravel eCommerce project — and I'm sharing everything I learned. What I Built A fully functional eCommerce system in Laravel with three core modules: 🛒 Cart System — add, update, remove items with session-based persistence 💳 Stripe Integration — secure checkout with payment intent API 🔧 Admin Panel — manage products, orders, and customers Tech Stack Laravel 11 — backend framework Stripe PHP SDK — payment processing MySQL — database Blade + TailwindCSS — frontend The Cart System The trickiest part was keeping the cart synced between guest users and logged-in users. I used Laravel sessions for guests and migrated to DB on login. php public function addToCart ( Request $request , Product $product ) { $cart = session () -> get ( 'cart' , []); $cart [ $product -> id ] = [ 'name' => $product -> name , 'price' => $product -> price , 'quantity' => ( $cart [ $product -> id ][ 'quantity' ] ?? 0 ) + 1 , ]; session () -> put ( 'cart' , $cart )