Laravel Payable Redirect Mollie Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Checkout and one-off payment flows for Dutch/EU-first products. Mollie is a dominant PSP in the Netherlands and Belgium, and this package wraps Mollie's redirect flow so any Eloquent model (Order, Invoice, Booking, Subscription start) can own a payment record without hand-rolling a PSP integration. Useful for deciding build vs. buy on payments: the "buy" here is free (MIT) and saves an estimated 1–2 weeks of integration work on a greenfield Mollie checkout.
• Domain-model payment association strategy. The core value is the Payable trait pattern: payments become first-class records attached to your own models rather than floating in a PSP dashboard. This directly supports decisions about order state machines, reconciliation, refunds, and audit trails — the data model you choose here constrains reporting and finance workflows later.
• MVP and prototype scoping. For a v0 product validating willingness-to-pay in a Mollie-supported market, this lets you ship a redirect checkout quickly and defer the decision on a fuller payments abstraction (webhooks, subscriptions, multi-PSP routing) until volume justifies it.
• Roadmap input on payments depth. Choosing this package is an explicit decision to not support SCA/3-D Secure challenge flows, recurring billing, or multi-PSP failover at launch. That's a legitimate trade-off only if the roadmap has no near-term subscription or PSD2-sensitive requirements.
• Build-vs-maintain calculus. With 21 stars, zero dependents, and a last release in February 2018, adoption is effectively a decision to vendor/fork a small package and own its maintenance — not to depend on an active upstream.

When to Consider This Package

Consider it when:

• You are on a legacy Laravel 5.x codebase (or willing to fork and port), where the 2018-era dependency constraints actually match your stack.
• Mollie is your PSP and your flow is a simple redirect checkout for one-off payments — customer clicks pay, leaves to Mollie, returns to a return URL.
• You want payment records attached to Eloquent models and prefer a ready-made trait over writing the association and return-handling yourself.
• The project is an internal tool, prototype, or low-volume MVP where a fork-and-patch maintenance burden is acceptable and PCI scope stays with Mollie's hosted pages.
• You need EU/NL payment method coverage (iDEAL, Bancontact, cards) via a redirect, and your compliance posture does not yet demand a formal SCA strategy in code.

Look elsewhere when:

• You are on modern Laravel (9/10/11/12) — expect incompatible framework and Mollie API client versions, and an unmaintained dependency in your payment path.
• You need SCA / 3-D Secure challenge handling. This package predates PSD2 SCA enforcement (September 2019) and the Mollie API v2 migration; assume any 3DS issuer challenge flow needs to be built and tested yourself.
• You need webhooks as the source of truth, idempotency, refunds, partial captures, subscriptions, or multi-PSP routing — use Mollie's official SDK directly, or a maintained Laravel billing package (e.g. Laravel Cashier-style abstractions, or a current Mollie Laravel integration).
• Payments are revenue-critical and high-volume. A seven-year-old, single-maintainer, low-adoption package in the money path is an operational risk that outweighs the saved integration time.
• You need active security patching or vendor support. There is no dependents base to signal community vetting.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives: This is a small, free, MIT-licensed Laravel package that connects Mollie payments to our own database records, so orders and invoices know which payment belongs to them. It would let us launch a Mollie redirect checkout in days rather than weeks and keeps card data entirely on Mollie's hosted pages, limiting our PCI exposure. The catch: it was last released in 2018, has almost no adoption, and predates Europe's 2019 strong-customer-authentication rules — so it is a prototype-or-legacy-only accelerator, not a foundation for a revenue-critical payments platform. Recommendation: use it to validate a Mollie-based checkout quickly if we are on an older Laravel stack, and budget a planned migration to Mollie's official SDK before we scale, add subscriptions, or touch PSD2-sensitive flows.

For engineering: It gives us a Payable trait so payments attach to any Eloquent model, plus redirect and return-URL handling for Mollie's hosted checkout. Treat it as a vendored snippet, not a dependency: forking is likely required for current Laravel and Mollie API v2, and we own webhook handling, idempotency, and any 3DS challenge flow ourselves. Do not put this in the critical path without a migration ticket opened at the same time.