Payload Stack

Payload Stack is an open-source SaaS boilerplate on Payload CMS 3 and Next.js 16. It ships the parts every product needs before the product itself exists, already connected:

• Authentication with Better Auth through payload-auth: email and password, magic links, passkeys, TOTP two-factor, social sign-in and impersonation. One session for your app and the Payload admin.
• Organizations using Better Auth's organization plugin as the source of truth, bridged into @payloadcms/plugin-multi-tenant so every tenant-scoped collection is enforced in the API and in the admin.
• Billing with @better-auth/stripe: plans from config, per user or per organization, seats, trials, the customer portal and webhooks.
• UI with Tailwind v4, shadcn/ui and Better Auth UI for auth screens, account and security settings, organization management and billing. The dashboard shell is shadcn's sidebar-08.
• Back office: Payload's admin at /admin for users, organizations, subscriptions, content and support, with a tenant selector.
• Email with React Email templates sent through Payload's email adapter.
• Agent-ready: an AGENTS.md that states the project's rules, task skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, MCP servers for the running app, the browser and shadcn, and one pnpm verify command that tells an agent whether its change holds. See Agentic development.
• Content: legal pages as a collection (seeded), media with a storage adapter of your choice (Vercel Blob, S3, R2, Azure, GCS, Uploadthing), rich text.

Everything product-specific is declared once in src/stack.config.ts and validated with zod. Turn organizations or billing off and the related UI, plugins and collections disappear.

npx create-payload-stack@latest

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License

MIT. Payload Stack is a payload.solutions project.