---
title: "Installation — Credits for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Install via Composer, publish and run the publish-only migration, and optionally publish the config and translations."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/credits-for-laravel/installation
language: en
---

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# Installation

Require the package. The service provider is auto-discovered, and its two Roundly dependencies — package-toolkit-for-laravel and money-for-laravel — install with it:

```bash
composer require roundly-consulting/credits-for-laravel

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="credits-migrations"
php artisan migrate
```

## Publish-only migration

The package never loads its migration itself. Publishing copies the credits migration into your database/migrations, where you own it — so a bare php artisan migrate before publishing creates nothing. The file is stamped with the current time, so it runs after your own tables; publishing again overwrites that same file in place.

The migration creates two tables: credits, the ledger, and credit\_locks, one small row per owner that serialises concurrent changes (see Overdraft protection).

If your creditable models use UUID or ULID keys, set CREDITS\_KEY\_TYPE before you migrate — see Key types & schema.

## A forward-only migration

Like every Roundly package migration, it has no down(): php artisan migrate:rollback does not drop the two tables, and the next migrate then fails on “table already exists”. The published copy is yours — to uninstall, drop credits and credit\_locks in a migration of your own, or add a down() to your copy.

## Config and translations

The config file is optional — the package works with zero host configuration. Publish it only to override a default:

```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="credits-config"
```

The exception messages are translatable and ship in English and Slovak. Publish them to lang/vendor/credits to edit them or add locales:

```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="credits-translations"
```

The package exposes exactly three publish tags: credits-migrations, credits-config and credits-translations.

## Next steps

- Add the Creditable interface and the HasCredits trait to a model.
- Grant and deduct credits with modifyCredits().
- Split credit into named buckets if different kinds must never be spent against each other.

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