Lara Dashboard Pro

Lara Dashboard Pro is the official premium add-on for Lara Dashboard. It adds the security, protection and operations tools a production site needs: two-factor authentication, automated backups, spam protection, email delivery logs, user security controls and cloud media storage, all managed from your admin panel. Every Pro plan also includes premium support from the Lara Dashboard team.

Pro is an add-on, not a separate product. Install it on top of your existing Lara Dashboard site. Content editing (posts, pages, media), users, and roles & permissions are part of the free Lara Dashboard core and keep working as before. Pro adds the features below.

Requirements

What's Included

🔐 Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

Protect every login with a 6-digit code from an authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password, Microsoft Authenticator). A stolen password alone is no longer enough to get in.

• Users enable 2FA themselves by scanning a QR code
• Admins see who has 2FA turned on, at a glance
• Require 2FA for a single user, or for everyone with one click
• Reset 2FA for a user who has lost their phone

💾 Automated Backups

Complete database and file backups, so you can recover from mistakes, failed updates or server problems.

• One-click backups from the admin panel, or on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule
• List every backup with its size and date, and delete old ones
• Store backups locally or off-site on Amazon S3
• Email notification when a backup succeeds or fails

🛡️ Spam Guard

Stop spam submissions and abusive traffic before they reach your forms and comments.

• Four protection levels (Low, Medium, High, Strict): pick one and you're done
• Phrase and regex rules, a hidden honeypot field, and suspicious user-agent detection
• Link-count limits and rate limiting (High), plus automatic IP blocking (Strict)
• IP allow-lists and block-lists, with CIDR range support
• Protected from day one: rules for the most common spam campaigns (ruble-transfer scams, crypto phishing, Telegram and URL-shortener links) are active as soon as you install
• More ready-made rule packs you can switch on with one click (casino, pharma, SEO outreach, Chinese/CJK spam, bot user-agents)
• Superadmins are never blocked, so you can't lock yourself out
• Log of blocked requests, plus a built-in tester to check a sample before going live

👤 User Security & Login History

• Block a user instantly: they are signed out and can't sign back in
• Unblock just as easily
• Superadmin accounts are protected from accidental blocking
• Last-login date and time for every user, searchable and sortable
• A Security Controls panel on each user's profile

🕵️ User Impersonation

Authorised admins can sign in as another user, without their password, to troubleshoot exactly what that user sees.

• Impersonate action in the user list
• A banner stays visible the whole time you're impersonating
• One click returns you to your own account

📧 Email Logs

A record of every email your site sends: verification, password resets, notifications and campaigns.

• Recipient, sender, subject and email type
• Status: Sent, Failed, Delivered, Opened, Clicked or Bounced
• Full HTML preview in a safe sandbox
• Failure reason for undelivered emails, and one-click retry
• Open tracking with an invisible pixel

☁️ Cloud Media Storage (Amazon S3)

Store uploaded images and files on Amazon S3 instead of your own server.

• Switch between local storage and S3 from the settings screen
• Enter credentials, bucket, region and a custom CDN URL; no code changes needed
• Your media is safe even if you move or rebuild your server

⭐ Premium Support

Pro customers get premium support directly from the Lara Dashboard team.

• Priority handling of your support requests, ahead of the free community channels
• Help with installing, configuring and upgrading Pro and Lara Dashboard core
• Help investigating bugs and security concerns on your site
• Included for as long as your plan is active

Open a ticket at laradashboard.com/support.

Granular Permissions

Every Pro feature has its own permission, so you choose exactly which roles can do what. Assign them in Access Control → Roles like any core permission.

Installation

1. Download laradashboardpro-vX.Y.Z.zip from your account on laradashboard.com (Account → Purchases).
2. In your Lara Dashboard admin, go to Modules → Install Module and upload the ZIP.
3. Click Activate. Database tables and permissions are installed automatically.
4. Open Lara Dashboard Pro → Settings to set up backups, media storage and 2FA.

Prefer the command line? Extract the ZIP into modules/LaradashboardPro, then run:

php artisan module:enable LaradashboardPro
php artisan migrate
php artisan optimize:clear

After installing, the admin sidebar shows a Lara Dashboard Pro menu, and the module list shows Lara Dashboard Pro at the version you downloaded.

Support & Updates

• Premium support, with priority handling, at laradashboard.com/support
• Unlimited updates for as long as your plan is active
• 7-day money-back guarantee

License

Lara Dashboard Pro is commercial software, licensed per your purchased plan. Please don't redistribute it.