Smultron is a Laravel boilerplate app that makes it possible to charge money from your users. Your users will pay a one time fee to access you application. The only thing you have to do to get started is to clone this repository, enter your Stripe API keys and away you go.

Installation

Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/chrishcode/smultron.git myApp

Cd into myApp cd myApp

Open the project in your favourite code editor, I’m using visual studio code which lets you open project by typing in your terminal code .

Rename the .env.example file to .env

Go into your .env file and paste in your Stripe API keys, you can find these in your Stripe application dashboard right here Stripe: Sign in

STRIPE_KEY=stripeKey
STRIPE_SECRET=stripeSecretKey

Install dependencies composer update —no-scripts

Generate an app key php artisan key:generate

Create a database and paste in the name and credentials in your .env file

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=myDatabaseName
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Migrate your database php artisan migrate

Start your app on a local server php artisan serve

That’s it! Now you have a new Laravel app that let’s you charge money from your users in order to access it.