## Direct-to-consumer brands: product catalog using Laravel

### Summary
A product catalog blueprint for direct-to-consumer brands built with Laravel on Ample. Domain schema: products (sku, name, collection, price, active): product catalog; stock_movements (sku, warehouse, delta, reason, moved_at): fulfillment stock; orders (order_no, channel, status, placed_at): orders with status transitions; order_lines (order_no, sku, qty, unit_price): order contents; events (seq, record_type, record_id, kind, at): application-owned history written in the same transaction. Public information: product catalog and collections, shipping and returns policy, brand story.

### Representative Queries
- Direct-to-consumer brands: product catalog using Laravel
- Where can I host Direct-to-consumer brands: Product catalog built with Laravel?
- I need a genuinely specialized product catalog workflow covering product variants, branded media and fulfillment-state handling.

### Resource Requirements
- primitive:compute
- primitive:postgres
- primitive:s3-compatible-object-storage

### Infrastructure Requirements
- **Compute**: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.
- **Postgres**: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.
- **S3-compatible object storage**: Buckets are S3-compatible with issued credentials; PutObject and GetObject are verified by canary. Other S3 operations are not verified.

### Framework and Workload
- Framework: Laravel
- Workload: Product catalog

### Prerequisites
- A Laravel project (composer install --no-dev from composer.lock, then FrankenPHP serving public/ (php-server with the index.php fallback) reading PORT on the php-8.5 template)
- A PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL (auto-provisioned when omitted)
- Bucket credentials from `ample bucket create` passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables
- A review of which direct-to-consumer brands data classes may be handled at all; this blueprint models public information only

### Tested Configuration
- Template: php-8.5
- Runtime: php
- Size: s-1vcpu-1gb
- Install: composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist --no-interaction --no-progress --optimize-autoloader
- Start: frankenphp php-server --listen :$PORT --root public

### Workflow Steps
1. **Model the direct-to-consumer brands domain:** Create the tables products, stock_movements, orders, order_lines, events. Product catalog lives in products; keep the sensitive classes (customer contact and payment details, discount codes tied to individuals) out of this schema.
2. **Workflow step 1:** Model the SKU catalog with versioned updates.
3. **Workflow step 2:** Record every catalog change as an event in the same transaction.
4. **Workflow step 3:** Reject stale concurrent updates.
5. **Workflow step 4:** Deploy and verify history and conflict handling.
6. **Deploy:** Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result. Re-running with no change is a no-op.
7. **Verify:** Run the pattern self-test(s) from the example and your own acceptance checks for the direct-to-consumer brands workflow.

### Examples
- **Laravel pattern fixture:** Verified transactional workflows basis for this blueprint.

### Success Checks
- app responds on its public URL
- transactional-workflows self-test from the example

### Limitations
- The technical basis (transactional workflows on Laravel) was verified with the pattern fixture; the direct-to-consumer brands schema and workflow are an original design for this blueprint and were not executed as a separate application.
- No health, financial, privacy or other compliance claim is made. Checkout and payment are handled by your commerce provider; only catalog, stock and order status are modeled here.

### Cost Estimate
- Currency: USD
- Monthly Amount: $10.00
- Components: 
  - App server: s-1vcpu-1gb, quantity: 1.0, monthlyAmount: $5.00
  - Managed PostgreSQL database: s-1vcpu-1gb, quantity: 1.0, monthlyAmount: $5.00
- Note: Always-on monthly price of the tested sizes; apps and databases auto-pause when idle. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.

### Evidence Summary
- **Kind:** canary_run
- **Summary:** Laravel pattern fixture deployed on Ample; the transactional workflows checks passed.
- **Observed At:** 2026-09-20T20:36:21Z
- **Last Verified At:** 2026-09-20T20:36:21Z

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