Laravel Reporting Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Build vs. buy for reporting/export features. This package is a candidate to replace hand-rolled report definitions, query builders, and export plumbing in a Laravel admin panel — most plausibly a Filament-based one, given the release note's reference to "a panel's tenant scope."
• Multi-tenancy architecture. The v0.1.7 fix (keeping report resources out of a panel's tenant scope) is a direct signal that report definitions and templates are intended to be global/shared artifacts while the underlying data remains tenant-bound. That supports a SaaS pattern where one report catalog serves all tenants with isolation enforced at query/row level — useful if you're deciding between "one catalog, scoped queries" and "fully isolated per-tenant catalogs."
• Roadmap enablement. Potentially unblocks epics like customer-facing report builders, scheduled exports, compliance/audit reporting, and internal ops dashboards without a from-scratch build.
• Use cases it does not support. Heavy BI/OLAP, warehouse-native analytics, or drag-and-drop self-serve exploration at scale. Scope it to operational reporting, not analytics platform work.

When to Consider This Package

Consider it if:

• You are on Laravel (and likely Filament) and need DB-backed report definitions plus export generation.
• Your team is small enough that buying/borrowing beats building, and you can absorb 0.x API churn.
• You can pin the version and wrap the package behind an internal interface so it isn't diffused across the codebase.
• Your tenancy model matches the package's default: shared report catalog, tenant-scoped data access.

Look elsewhere if:

• You need vendor support, an SLA, security review artifacts, or a stable public API — this is v0.1.7, single-maintainer, with a very short PR history (this is PR #2).
• Your compliance posture requires reports (including their SQL and definitions) to be fully tenant-isolated. This release deliberately takes report resources out of tenant scope; verify that's the behavior you want before adopting.
• You need advanced visualization, warehouse connectors, or scheduled-delivery infrastructure out of the box.
• Alternatives worth benchmarking: Filament's own widgets/metrics, Laravel Nova metrics, maatwebsite/excel for exports, or a dedicated BI tool (Metabase/Redash) if reporting is a product surface rather than an admin convenience.

Maturity read: patch-level fix, no breaking changes, no deprecations. The fix itself is encouraging — it shows the author is engaging with real multi-tenant deployment problems — but the 0.1.x line and thin contributor base mean this belongs in an evaluate/pilot tier, not a production-critical path.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

To executives: There's a Laravel-native reporting package that could shorten time-to-market for customer-facing and internal reports by weeks, and it's cheap to try because it slots into the stack we already run. The catch is maturity: it's pre-1.0, maintained by a single developer, and the current release is a multi-tenancy bug fix. Recommendation is a time-boxed pilot behind a feature flag — not a platform commitment. Exit cost is low because the integration surface is small and the code is ours to replace.

To engineering: It handles report definition persistence and export plumbing we would otherwise hand-roll, and it's designed to sit inside our existing panel. The v0.1.7 change keeps reporting resources out of a panel's tenant scope, which is the behavior we want for a shared report catalog — but it means we own the isolation guarantee at the query layer, so validate that global report resources cannot leak cross-tenant data before this touches anything customer-visible. Pin the version, wrap it behind an internal interface, and track upstream activity; treat the tenant-isolation boundary as ours, not the package's.