Laravel Autentique Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Feature scoping for e-signature workflows: The package exposes the core Autentique v2 operations PMs typically need to ship a signing feature: document upload/get/list/update/sign/delete/move, signer management, signature links, folders, and account context via me(). This supports MVP decisions like “start with document + signer + webhook status sync” rather than building a custom e-signature flow.
• Build vs. buy: Strong signal to buy/integrate an e-signature provider rather than build signing, audit, and document custody in-house. The package reduces the integration cost of adopting Autentique and gives engineering a narrow surface area to implement.
• Vendor and roadmap evaluation: Useful when evaluating Autentique as the e-signature vendor for a Laravel product, especially for Brazil/LATAM use cases. PMs can validate workflows in sandbox before committing roadmap capacity.
• Operational readiness decisions: Built-in cache-shared throttling (60 req/min default), max_wait, RateLimitException, and retry of 429/5xx with Retry-After support mean PMs can assess production behavior and quota risk earlier, rather than discovering rate-limit issues after launch.
• Webhook-driven product states: HMAC-verified webhook route and WebhookReceived event support decisions around asynchronous document status, signer completion, and workflow automation without polling.
• Error and UX handling: AutentiqueException with validation() helper supports better form-level error handling and customer-facing validation messages.
• Escape hatch for unknowns: Raw query() support lets engineering prototype Autentique capabilities not yet wrapped, which helps PMs evaluate future features without waiting for package updates.

When to Consider This Package

Consider this package when:

• The product is built on Laravel/PHP and the team wants a framework-native integration rather than hand-rolling GraphQL calls.
• Autentique is already selected or is a serious candidate as the e-signature provider.
• The roadmap needs document signing, signer management, folders, and webhook status updates with a relatively small integration surface.
• The team values sandbox mode, shared client-side rate limiting, retry behavior, and structured exceptions as part of the integration.
• You are comfortable with a 1.0.0 initial release and can validate it in sandbox before production rollout.
• You need a pragmatic path to production and are willing to use query() for Autentique features not yet wrapped.

Look elsewhere when:

• The stack is not Laravel/PHP, or the team requires an official vendor SDK with vendor-backed SLA/support.
• The product needs an e-signature provider other than Autentique, or provider-agnostic abstraction is a hard requirement.
• Required capabilities are not exposed by the wrapper and cannot reasonably be reached through raw query().
• The deployment cannot support a shared cache for throttling, or the team does not want client-side rate-limit behavior in the application layer.
• The organization requires a mature, long-supported package with a public track record; 1.0.0 should be treated as an early-adopter dependency until proven.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives: This package gives us a faster, lower-risk path to adding e-signature workflows to our Laravel product by integrating Autentique instead of building signing infrastructure ourselves. It covers the core document, signer, folder, and webhook flows, includes sandbox support for validation, and has production-oriented safeguards like rate limiting, retries, and HMAC-verified webhooks. The main caveat is that it is a new 1.0.0 release, so we should pilot it in sandbox and gate rollout behind a feature flag.

For engineering: It is a thin Laravel facade over Autentique v2 GraphQL with the expected resources, structured exceptions, sandbox configuration, cache-shared throttling, 429/5xx retry handling, and a webhook route that dispatches WebhookReceived. It reduces boilerplate and gives us a raw query() escape hatch, but we should verify cache configuration, webhook signature handling, and error mapping before production.