You built a SaaS. Users signed up. Now you need to actually manage them. And "manage" means a lot more than a table with an edit button. I built Kohana.io - a production CRM/ERP for small businesses. The admin user management module turned out to be one of the most complex pieces in the system. Now I'm extracting it into LaraFoundry , an open-source SaaS framework for Laravel. This post covers the full implementation: CRUD, banning, impersonation, activity logging, and search/filtering. Table of Contents CRUD Architecture Ban System Impersonation ("Follow") Activity Logging Search & Filtering Testing Design Decisions CRUD Architecture Create User creation goes through AdminUserStoreRequest - validation happens before the controller.β¦