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Stallhand
Vendor, commission and payout control for Laravel marketplaces
- Score
- 55
- confidence 56
- Evidence
- 12
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 1
- named in sources
- First version
- 45 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2017
- Established market · Verified
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Operations teams review orders and settle complex payouts at desks, while also approving vendors and handling disputes from anywhere on their phone. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Onboarding
Review queue7 waiting
About this appAI proposal
Stallhand is the back-office app for people who run a multi-vendor marketplace on Laravel. It connects to your shop through a small package and webhooks, then gives your operations team one place to onboard vendors, set commission rules, review orders and settle payouts.
It is built for marketplace operators and B2B teams who already have a storefront and catalog, custom or on a Laravel commerce package, and who coordinate vendors with spreadsheets and hand-built admin pages.
Stallhand does not replace your shop. It sits beside it, installs on a phone as a PWA, and keeps a clear ledger of who is owed what and why, so finance and support can answer vendor questions quickly.
- Tagline
- Keep every vendor, rule and payout in one place.
- Voice
- PracticalClearSteady
- Why this name
- A stallhand helps market traders run their stalls. The name suggests quiet, useful help for the people who run a marketplace.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Vendor onboarding queue
Collect vendor details and documents, review them on your phone, approve or return with notes. Approved vendors sync to your shop.
No member yet
Commission rules per vendor and category
Set percentage or flat rules with date ranges and overrides. See the exact rule applied to every order line.
No member yet
Payout ledger
Sales, refunds and fees post to a vendor balance. Close a period, review the batch, then export it or pay out through Stripe.
No member yet
Tenant switcher
Run several marketplaces or tenants from one login, with roles that limit who sees which vendors and money.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. Aimeos lists no license fees and an unpriced paid support plan. These tiers are a starting point to test, not a market claim.
Starter
Free
- 1 tenant
- Up to 10 vendors
- Commission rules and ledger
- CSV payout export
Operator
$79 a month
- 3 tenants
- Up to 200 vendors
- Stripe payout batches
- Vendor statements
- Roles and audit log
Scale
$249 a month
- Unlimited tenants
- Unlimited vendors
- Priority support
- Custom rule fields
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Each vendor gets a statement link and onboarding page showing sales, fees and payouts, branded to the marketplace with a small Stallhand mark. Vendors who run their own shops may see it there.
- Do they become customers?
- Vendors are not the buyer, so exposure alone may bring few customers. Test whether vendors who also run marketplaces ask for it, and whether operators in Laravel communities adopt the connector.
- First customers
- Small teams of 2 to 10 people running a multi-vendor Laravel marketplace with 20 to 200 vendors, currently doing payouts by spreadsheet.
- Where to reach them
- Laravel communities: Post the connector and a payout-ledger walkthrough in Laravel forums, Discords and newsletters.
- Open-source commerce users: Answer vendor and commission questions in the issue trackers and discussion boards of Laravel commerce projects.
- Direct outreach: Contact agencies that build Laravel marketplaces and offer a free pilot for one client.
- First milestone
- Five marketplaces run a real payout cycle in Stallhand and three agree to pay for the Operator tier.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 8703 stars in 4247 days
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- Public claim
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Laravel connectorComposer package with signed webhooksSends orders, refunds and vendors from the customer's Laravel shop to Stallhand.
- This app · Background jobsQueue worker with scheduled jobsHandles webhook intake, period closing and payout batches reliably.
RisksAI inference
- RegulatoryHolding or moving vendor funds can trigger money transmission and tax reporting rules. The first version should use Stripe Connect and avoid holding funds.
- TechnicalShops model orders, refunds and tenants differently, so the connector may need custom mapping for each customer.
- CommercialOpen-source Laravel commerce packages may add vendor and payout features and make a separate tool seem unnecessary.
- DataWebhook gaps or duplicates could make the ledger differ from the shop, which would destroy trust in payout numbers.
- PlatformRelies on Stripe Connect rules and availability in each country, which limits where payouts can run.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.