Full-Stack Visa Operation with Partner Portal

VisaRunway is a visa marketplace that connects independent applicants with vetted consultants and law firms across multiple jurisdictions. Unlike a single-firm CRM, VisaRunway is a two-sided business — applicants on one side, partner firms on the other — and the platform has to keep both sides honest.

Before we started, the platform existed as a basic directory and a Stripe checkout. Partner firms were operating largely outside the system, and the marketplace had no visibility into how cases were progressing or how revenue was attributed.

The brief was to turn the directory into a real platform: partner SSO, case visibility, multi-currency revenue share, and the trust signals that make a marketplace work.

We rebuilt VisaRunway around three architectural pillars: a Laravel + Filament core, a partner SSO layer that lets external firms log in with their existing identity provider, and a Stripe-driven multi-currency billing engine that handles applicant payments, partner payouts, and platform commissions in a single ledger.

Vue.js drives the applicant-facing flows where interactivity matters — search, filtering, status tracking — while the partner portal stays in Filament because the partners are operators who value density over animation.

The non-obvious choice was building our own commission and payout engine on top of Stripe Connect rather than using Stripe's standard split-payment flow. The marketplace's commission rules are nuanced enough (volume tiers, currency-specific terms, refund handling) that owning the math gave us flexibility we couldn't get from Stripe alone.