## The short version

A form collection blueprint for bookkeeping practices built with Laravel on Ample. Domain schema: 
- **client_entities** (legal_name, entity_type, accounting_software, period_cadence): clients and their bookkeeping cadence; 
- **engagements** (client_entity_id, period_start, period_end, close_status): monthly or quarterly close engagements; 
- **document_requests** (engagement_id, category, due_at, status, uploaded_object_key): receipts, statements and payroll summaries requested; 
- **close_checklists** (engagement_id, item, done_at): close tasks per period; 
- **uploads** (id, owner_reference, object_key, content_type, size, uploaded_at): validated uploads linked to their owner. Public information: service packages and cadence, onboarding checklist, contact details. Kept out of scope until handling is reviewed: bank statements and receipts, payroll data, login credentials for accounting software. Never store client accounting-software credentials in these flows; financial records are sensitive and no compliance is claimed. Technical basis verified on Laravel: content-type and size validation that rejects disallowed files, an object written to a private bucket and a row linking the record to the object key (reject=ok upload=ok linked=ok).

## What it needs

- [Compute](/content/discover/primitive/compute/index.html): verified (Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs; sizes are the priced VM sizes.)
- [Postgres](/content/discover/primitive/postgres/index.html): verified (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](/content/discover/primitive/s3-compatible-object-storage/index.html): verified (Buckets are S3-compatible with issued credentials; PutObject and GetObject are verified by canary. Other S3 operations are not verified.)

## Before you start

- 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 bookkeeping practices data classes may be handled at all; this blueprint models public information only

## How to do it

1. **Model the bookkeeping practices domain**  
Create the tables client_entities, engagements, document_requests, close_checklists, uploads. Clients and their bookkeeping cadence lives in client_entities; keep the sensitive classes (bank statements and receipts, payroll data, login credentials for accounting software) out of this schema.

2. **Workflow step 1**  
Model document requests per engagement with due dates and status

3. **Workflow step 2**  
Validate uploaded files (type, size) before storing them in the private bucket and linking them to the request

4. **Workflow step 3**  
Authorize uploads by client entity

5. **Workflow step 4**  
Deploy and verify rejection of disallowed files and a linked upload

6. **Deploy**  
Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result. Re-running with no change is a no-op.

```
    ample deploy . --name <app-name> --public --env S3_ENDPOINT=... --env S3_REGION=... --env S3_BUCKET=... --env S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... --env S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...
    ```

7. **Verify**  
Run the pattern self-test(s) from the example (/p/browser-file-uploads) and your own acceptance checks for the bookkeeping practices workflow.

```
    ample logs <deployment_id> --kind build
    ```

## Tested examples

- **Laravel pattern fixture** (`tests/deploy-canaries/laravel-patterns`): Verified browser file uploads basis for this blueprint.

## How to know it worked

- App responds on its public URL (`/` on the live URL, expect ample canary laravel patterns)
- Browser-file-uploads self-test from the example (`/p/browser-file-uploads` on the live URL, expect see the pattern fixture checks)

## Cost estimate

Estimated 10.00 USD per month (size prices from pricing.toml at build revision ca0b484a7a9957c573a88d3a32dc603c3c10135a).

- App server x1 `s-1vcpu-1gb`: 5.00 USD
- Managed PostgreSQL database x1 `s-1vcpu-1gb`: 5.00 USD

Upper-bound monthly price of the tested sizes. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.

## Verification evidence

- canary_run on 2026-09-20T20:36:21Z at revision `118ad1c6d7d23d4c2ce069254bab9ec9d37cd57b (CLI 118ad1c)`: Laravel pattern fixture deployed on Ample (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); the browser file uploads checks passed: content-type and size validation that rejects disallowed files, an object written to a private bucket and a row linking the record to the object key (reject=ok upload=ok linked=ok). The blueprint's Bookkeeping practices schema and workflow below build on that verified basis and were not separately executed. (expires 2027-03-19T20:36:21Z)

## Execution binding

MCP tool `ample_deploy` (registry `mcp:ample_deploy`), schema hash `876465fce906da0c` observed 2026-09-22T00:31:22.774679+00:00 at revision `e6446ceea69b`. Binding state at export: schema_changed. Required scopes: servers:write, databases:read, buckets:read.

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## Identifiers and status

Recipe `page:blueprints:bookkeeping-practices:form-collection:laravel`. Revision r1.

release **published** support **verified** execution **blocked (schema_changed: live tool schema differs from the recorded binding)**

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