Getting started

Aurora Travel is a complete Laravel marketplace for travel inventory — tours, hotels, car rentals and custom experiences. This guide takes a fresh download to a running install in about three minutes.

Requirements

• PHP 8.4 or newer — Aurora Travel relies on Laravel 13 features that need PHP 8.4.
• Composer 2.x for backend dependencies.
• Bun (or Node + npm) for the Vite asset pipeline.
• PostgreSQL 14+, MySQL 8 or MariaDB 10.6.
• A valid pcreative license key — you receive one by email after purchase.

Three-minute install

unzip aurora-travel.zip
cd aurora-travel

composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
bun install && bun run build
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

# create the database, point DATABASE_URL at it in .env
php artisan migrate

Then open the site in a browser — you will land on the setup wizard at /install.

What comes next

1. Walk through the setup wizard (verify license → database → admin user).
2. Optional: run the demo seeder for a realistic dataset (vendors, services, bookings, reviews).
3. Configure runtime values via Configuration — Stripe keys, SMTP, currency, locales.