Laravel Autonumber Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Auto-generated sequential identifiers (invoice numbers, order IDs, ticket references, SKU sequences) without building bespoke counter logic — a small but recurring build-vs-buy decision that this package resolves cheaply.
• Laravel 10 compatibility (added in v1.0.1) means the package can be adopted on currently supported framework versions rather than pinned to a legacy stack — removes the main technical blocker to trialling it.
• Configurable starting value (added in v1.0.1) supports real-world numbering requirements: migrating from a legacy system where the next invoice must start at 10,001, per-year/per-tenant sequence resets, or seeding demo environments with a controlled offset. This is the feature that most often turns "we'll just write a DB trigger" into "we'll use the package."
• Roadmap signal: the package is early (v1.0.x, single maintainer, first external contribution). Treat it as a candidate for low-risk, non-critical numbering paths, not for financial or regulatory identifiers where auditability and long-term maintenance guarantees matter.

When to Consider This Package

Consider it when:

• You need human-readable, gap-tolerant sequential numbers and have no existing numbering service.
• You are on Laravel 10 (or the version matrix the package now declares) and want a drop-in trait/service rather than custom DB::transaction + lockForUpdate code.
• The starting-value feature maps to a real migration or multi-tenant requirement you would otherwise hand-roll.
• The numbering is reversible — you can swap the generator later without data loss.

Look elsewhere when:

• You need gapless sequences, legal/regulatory invoice compliance, or distributed/multi-region uniqueness guarantees — those demand a dedicated service or database-native sequence with an audit trail.
• You require vendor support, an SLA, or a maintainer bus-factor greater than one.
• You are on a Laravel version outside the package's declared support matrix; verify the composer.json constraints before committing, since the release note only names Laravel 10.
• Concurrency at high write volume is expected — validate the locking strategy under load before relying on it.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives: A small open-source Laravel package that generates sequential business numbers (invoices, orders, tickets) so we don't spend engineering days reinventing it. The new v1.0.1 release adds Laravel 10 support — keeping it viable on our current framework — and a configurable starting value, which covers our legacy-migration numbering needs. Cost is effectively zero; the trade-off is that it's an early-stage, single-maintainer project, so we'd limit it to non-critical numbering and keep the integration behind a thin interface so it can be replaced.

For engineering: v1.0.1 brings Laravel 10 compatibility and a starting value option. Adoption is a composer require plus a trait/config wiring — no schema changes beyond the counter storage. Before rollout: confirm the declared version constraints, review the locking/concurrency behaviour for our write volume, and wrap the generator behind an internal interface so a future swap (or a move to DB-native sequences for financial documents) is a one-class change. Recommend a spike on a non-critical entity first.