Simple Tenancy Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Multi-tenant MVP scoping: Use this package to validate a B2B/SaaS workspace or account-isolation model quickly, especially when tenancy is a “must-have for launch” but not yet a differentiated product capability.
• Build vs. buy/borrow: Favor adopting this MIT package for a time-boxed prototype or narrow v1 rather than building tenant scoping from scratch. Treat it as an accelerator, not as a long-term platform commitment.
• Roadmap sequencing: Decide whether simple tenant isolation is enough for the next release, or whether roadmap items such as custom domains, per-tenant databases, tenant-aware queues/cache/storage, audit logs, and advanced RBAC require a more complete tenancy layer.
• Feature prioritization: If this package covers basic tenant scoping, product can prioritize onboarding, billing, permissions, and admin workflows instead of low-level isolation plumbing.
• Risk and ownership planning: Because adoption signals are low—37 GitHub stars and a 0.335 score—PM should budget for engineering ownership, security review, test coverage, and a fork/exit plan if the package becomes a critical dependency.
• Use-case fit: Best suited to straightforward Laravel applications with a single database and simple tenant-per-account isolation. Poor fit for regulated, enterprise, high-scale, or complex multi-tenant architectures without significant hardening.

When to Consider This Package

Consider it when:

• The product is a Laravel application and the team wants a lightweight, MIT-licensed starting point for simple multi-tenancy.
• The tenant model is straightforward: tenant-per-account/workspace, shared database, basic data scoping, and limited tenant-specific infrastructure.
• The team is early-stage and optimizing for speed-to-learning over long-term platform guarantees.
• Engineering is willing to run a spike, review the package internals, add tests around tenant boundaries, and vendor/fork if needed.
• Tenancy is important for demos or early customers but not yet the core technical differentiator.

Look elsewhere when:

• The product requires per-tenant databases, custom domains, tenant-aware background jobs, cache/storage partitioning, advanced RBAC, audit trails, or compliance controls.
• The roadmap includes enterprise procurement, strict data-residency requirements, or large-scale tenant management.
• The team needs a maintained ecosystem, strong community support, security advisories, and predictable upgrade paths.
• Tenancy is central to the product architecture and should be owned as a first-class internal capability.
• Engineering cannot tolerate low adoption signals or does not have Laravel expertise to validate and harden the integration.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

Executive summary: sbine/simple-tenancy is a low-cost, MIT-licensed Laravel package that can accelerate early multi-tenant product experiments. It is best positioned as a tactical accelerator for simple tenant isolation—not as a strategic platform dependency. The main upside is faster validation of B2B/SaaS use cases; the main risk is low adoption and unclear long-term maintenance. Recommend a time-boxed engineering spike with explicit exit criteria: tenant-boundary tests, security review, upgrade/fork plan, and a fallback to a more established tenancy approach if requirements grow.

Engineering summary: Validate the package’s tenancy model against our data model, confirm how it scopes queries and handles migrations, and add regression tests for cross-tenant leakage. Avoid coupling core domain logic to package internals. If the spike passes, use it narrowly and document ownership; if not, evaluate a stronger Laravel tenancy package or build the minimum scoping layer internally.