Building a Multi-Vendor Home Services Marketplace with Laravel: Architecture, Workflows and Key Decisions

Building a home services marketplace looks straightforward until you start mapping the actual workflows.

A customer searches for a service, chooses a provider, selects a time slot, enters an address, pays, and receives confirmation.

Simple enough.

But behind that booking are several systems working together: customers, providers, services, locations, schedules, bookings, payments, invoices, notifications, and administration.