Here's a start:

https://medium.com/laravel-4/c5afca925f28

I'm developing an e-commerce package for laravel at the moment, and for the actual cart, it stores to a cart table for logged users and to a cookie for guest users. You'll need a table like 'cart', a table 'products', and a table 'cart_products' to manage the relationship, as well as intermediate values on that table for quantity.

You build your 'admin panel' just like you would for anything with laravel. There's no simple solution at the moment for your situation specifically (until cartalyst releases their ecommerce package: https://cartalyst.com/ ), but until then, you can use cartalyst's popular sentry package to manage user permissions (so only admins can access your admin panel).

I'm using the following:

http://packalyst.com/packages/package/gloudemans/shoppingcart

at

http://garimp3.com

More than likely you'll have to cook your own admin, unless another member makes a recommendation.

Updating this thread with our actual Cart package.

http://demo.cartalyst.com/cart/