Proposal: Make Laravel Cashier an Adapter Framework for Multiple Payment Gateways

[AbdelrahmanDwedar]

Hello Laravel team and community,

I’d like to propose a significant enhancement to Laravel Cashier that could expand its versatility and usefulness across various payment gateways. Currently, Cashier supports Stripe and Paddle very well, but as the landscape of e-commerce grows, so does the demand for more diverse payment integrations, especially across different regions and markets.

Proposal Overview

The idea is to transform Laravel Cashier into a core adapter framework that defines standardized interfaces for key payment functionalities (e.g., charging, refunding, subscriptions). This would allow developers to plug in custom adapters for any payment gateway—such as Amazon Pay, PayPal, or regional gateways. By following an adapter pattern, the core functionality of Cashier would remain intact, with each gateway adapter implementing these interfaces in a modular way.

Why This Matters

Not all businesses use Stripe or Paddle, and many would benefit from integrating other payment services without losing the elegance and simplicity Laravel Cashier provides. With this adapter-based approach, we can leverage the open-source community to create and maintain integrations with additional gateways, relieving the core team from managing every gateway while making Cashier far more adaptable.

Key Benefits

1. Broader Gateway Coverage: By inviting the community to contribute adapters, we enable support for more gateways without overwhelming the core maintainers.
2. Modular Design: Developers could install only the adapters they need, making Cashier more lightweight and flexible.
3. Optional Features: Some gateways don’t support subscriptions or other advanced features. This framework could allow for flexible implementations, enabling or disabling features based on the gateway’s capabilities.

Next Steps

If this proposal resonates, I’d be happy to start by drafting a prototype adapter for a popular gateway to illustrate how this pattern might work in practice. I’d love to hear feedback from the core team and community on this idea—let’s work together to make Cashier even more powerful and adaptable!

Thank you for considering this suggestion. I believe it would be a huge step forward for Laravel Cashier, aligning it with Laravel’s open-source spirit and community-driven growth.

[Chrisx84]

even though i use stripe i agree with this, would be nice to have other payment options like Paypal

[AbdelrahmanDwedar]

In my country Stripe is not supported so I'm most in need for that type of work style I'm even open on working on it and even adding few adapters that I might use.

[noureldenashraf]

I strongly Agree with this,We really do need this propose to be Done.

[yash-tiwari18]

I am willing to work on this with @AbdelrahmanDwedar. I was thinking about doing this for a custom payment gateway that I use, and this will be the right approach to make cashier more useful.

[AbdelrahmanDwedar]

I'm positive about making this fr, what is your suggestion; do we start making a demo then maybe try to get it to Laravel, or do we make it a completely different thing and make it open source?
@yash-tiwari18