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PHP development company for Laravel, custom PHP and WordPress builds.

Mindrops builds and maintains PHP web applications (Laravel and Symfony apps, APIs, WordPress and WooCommerce sites) and upgrades older PHP code onto supported versions, with testing, hosting and support included.

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Brussels 2026 · ★ 4.8/5 · 43 reviews

Clients

  • Unilever
  • Cushman & Wakefield
  • The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
  • World Food Programme
  • UNDP India
  • Anton Paar
  • Belgo-Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry
  • Unilever
  • Anton Paar
  • Cushman & Wakefield
  • World Food Programme
  • UNDP India
  • Hero MotoCorp
  • Unilever
  • DLF
  • India Post
  • Barbeque Nation
  • The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Mindrops is a PHP development company that builds custom web applications, portals and APIs in Laravel and Symfony, WordPress and WooCommerce sites, and integrations with payment, CRM and logistics systems. We also upgrade older PHP code to supported PHP 8 releases, then host, secure and maintain it.

Selected projects

Projects in this area, followed by work for well-known clients.

Business Association · Website & Membership

BICC&I — Website & Member Platform

A WordPress website with a custom theme, membership management, event list management, a Mailchimp integration and an integrated payment gateway.

Mindrops manages the live site end to end: server management, updates and security.

Cafés in India50+outlets across India, served by the systems we builtBrewing since 1963

AI · Food & Beverage

BeanBot — The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

An embeddable AI chat assistant grounded in live catalogue and store data, with an “Order Now” action on every product and a no-code admin console for content and pricing.

Live across 50+ outlets in India, handling about 10,000 conversations a month and around 50 orders a day.

Families sharing meals and everyday moments on sunlit terraces, beneath an illustrated Unilever logo
Everyday reach3.4bnpeople use Unilever products every day190+ countries where its brands are sold

Consumer goods · Applied AI + mobile

AI loyalty programme app for Unilever

For Unilever, we built a mobile loyalty programme with applied AI at its core, turning everyday purchases into a direct and continuing relationship between the brand and its consumers.

Loyalty programme · Applied AI · Mobile app

Global reach170countries and territories where UNDP worksUnited Nations Development Programme

UNDP India

A learning management system for UNDP India, bringing our learning-platform engineering to an international development institution.

Influencers on the platform130,000+and 100,000+ brands, on a network serving 16M+ users a monthMaintained 4+ years

SaaS · AI Influencer Marketing

Activate by Bloglovin' — AI influencer marketing platform

A dedicated onshore and offshore Mindrops team built, upgraded and maintained the platform with Agile delivery — AI matching of creators with brands on data from the Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, X, YouTube and Google Analytics APIs, plus messaging and real-time reporting.

Maintained for 4+ years, scaling to 130,000+ influencers and 100,000+ brands on a network serving 16M+ users a month.

IoT · Instruments

Easydens by Anton Paar

Mindrops chose right-fit tooling, fast-tracked development, tested across iOS and Android devices and supported App Store submission, then post-launch monitoring.

Shipped on time across iPhone, iPad and Android, to the satisfaction of Anton Paar’s Easydens team.

Total post offices1,65,000The largest postal network in the world

Government · GovTech

India Post — Grievance Redressal

An AI-automated platform on Mindrops’ LazyMonkey foundation that categorises, prioritises, routes and auto-responds to every grievance, with one SLA-tracked record for central and regional teams.

Awarded via GeM (Nov 2025), it auto-triages thousands of grievances a day for a network of 1.5 lakh+ post offices.

Restaurants230In 86 cities across 5 countriesListed on NSE and BSE

Enterprise · Food & Beverage

Barbeque Nation — Partner Portal

An ERP-integrated partner portal unifying vendor onboarding with GST, PAN, FSSAI and MSME checks, multi-stakeholder approvals, contract lifecycle management and a live vendor ledger.

Vendor, contract and finance operations digitized at scale in one dual portal for internal teams and vendors, with the ERP kept as the system of record.

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What our PHP development services cover

Laravel & Symfony applications

Customer portals, booking and workflow systems and SaaS products with authentication, roles, queues, scheduled jobs and reporting.

Custom PHP development

Bespoke modules and back ends where a framework is not the right fit, written to modern PHP standards and covered by tests.

WordPress & WooCommerce

Custom themes and plugins, membership, event and store features, so your team manages content without developer help.

APIs & integrations

REST APIs and connectors to payment gateways, CRMs, ERPs, email and SMS services and logistics providers.

PHP upgrades & modernisation

Moving code from PHP 5 or 7 to PHP 8.3 or newer and updating frameworks and dependencies, with tests around every changed path.

Hosting, security & support

Server set-up, updates, backups, monitoring and security hardening after launch, on a monthly support plan.

Who we build PHP applications for

Businesses that need a custom web application

Companies that have outgrown spreadsheets or off-the-shelf tools and need a portal, booking system or internal tool built around how they work.

Teams running on WordPress or WooCommerce

Organisations whose website or store runs on WordPress and needs custom features, integrations, speed and security work.

Owners of ageing PHP systems

Businesses on PHP 7 or an old framework version that no longer gets security fixes, who need an upgrade without a full rewrite.

Product companies and agencies

SaaS teams and digital agencies that need a PHP delivery team for a new build, a backlog or a busy season.

Why Mindrops for PHP development

A PHP site we build and run for a client
For the Belgo-Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry we built bicci.be on WordPress, with membership management, event listings, Mailchimp and online payments, and we look after its server, updates and security.
Our own website runs on PHP
mindrops.com, in four languages, is a PHP application our team writes, tests and releases continuously, so modern PHP is part of our daily work rather than a side skill.
Upgrades without rewrites
We upgrade old PHP in steps (PHP version, then framework, then packages) with tests and a rollback plan, and recommend a rebuild only when the architecture itself is the problem.
The right stack, not just PHP
We also build in Node.js, .NET and Python, so if PHP is not the best fit for part of your system, we tell you before you invest in it.
Technologies we use
Frameworks & CMS
PHP 8 · Laravel · Symfony · WordPress · WooCommerce
Data & front end
MySQL · PostgreSQL · Redis · Blade · Livewire
Quality & operations
Composer · PHPUnit · Pest · Docker · CI/CD

Client reviews

Reviews of other Mindrops projects; each names the project it is about.

Warehouse operations platform

A field app and web admin panel connecting material records, site expenses and reporting across warehouse locations.

From the client’s review

“Reporting that used to take a full day of compiling sheets is now a filtered download from the admin panel.”
Amit AgarwalDirector, Footprint WarehousingRead full review on Clutch

AI invoice extraction

Vendor invoices are read and extracted automatically, stored, and passed to the accounting tools the finance team already uses.

From the client’s review

“The AI extraction they built works reliably with different invoice formats which was the main thing we needed.”
Keshpal YadavEmployee, VRV Hospitality Private LimitedRead full review on Sortlist

Ordering platform for a retail chain

A website and mobile app for a 70-outlet meat retail chain in Delhi NCR, on a backend built for high order volume.

From the client’s review

“The admin dashboard was the standout, putting inventory, pricing, and promotions across all 70 outlets in the hands of non-technical staff.”
Karan SahniDirector, Sardar Meat ShopRead full review on Sortlist

AI vehicle monitoring

Computer vision at a mine gate records number plates, vehicle movements and trip counts for daily reporting.

From the client’s review

“Daily reports are ready on their own, so nobody has to sit and prepare them at the end of the shift.”
Ashok Kumar SinghOwner, M/s Mineshaft Traders & ConsultantRead full review on DesignRush

Fintech lending platform

A customer app, vendor app and admin panel from one team, with KYC, CIBIL credit checks and automated loan approvals.

From the client’s review

“Fintech projects have a lot of layers and it was good to work with a team that understood the credit and lending side of things.”
Shyam AryaDirector, Insto Fin Private LimitedRead full review on Sortlist
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How we deliver a PHP project

  1. 01 — Discover

    Scope or audit first

    For a new build we map users, workflows and integrations; for existing code we first audit PHP versions, dependencies and security.

  2. 02 — Design

    Plan the data and screens

    The data model, API contract and key screens are agreed and prototyped before development starts.

  3. 03 — Build

    Tested increments on staging

    Features ship in short cycles to a staging site you can review, with automated tests and code review on every change.

  4. 04 — Run

    Launch and look after it

    We deploy with a rollback plan, then keep PHP, the framework and plugins updated, backed up and monitored.

Frequently asked questions

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What does a PHP development company do?
It builds and maintains websites and web applications in PHP: custom applications, CMS sites, online stores, APIs and integrations, plus upgrades, hosting and support. Mindrops covers that full scope, from discovery to long-term maintenance.
Is PHP still a good choice for new projects?
Yes, for many of them. PHP runs a large share of the web, PHP 8 is fast and well supported, and Laravel makes secure business applications quick to build. For real-time or AI-heavy parts we may pair it with Node.js or Python. See our guide to PHP web development services.
Laravel or custom PHP?
Laravel suits most new business applications: it brings authentication, queues, testing and a large ecosystem. Custom PHP makes sense for small, focused services or when extending an existing codebase that does not use a framework.
Can you upgrade our old PHP application?
Usually without a rewrite. We upgrade in steps to a supported PHP 8 release, update the framework and packages, and add tests around what changes. Larger programmes run as legacy modernisation projects.
Which PHP versions do you work with?
New projects start on PHP 8.3 or newer, and we upgrade older code from PHP 5 and 7. Only recent PHP 8 branches receive security fixes, so staying on a supported version matters.
Do you deliver projects or provide PHP developers?
Both. We deliver PHP projects end to end, or you can hire PHP developers to work inside your own team and sprints.
How much does PHP development cost?
It depends on the scope, the integrations and whether we start from scratch or from existing code. After discovery or a code audit we send a written scope with an itemised estimate; see engagement models.

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