Laravel queues feel easy in development. You set QUEUE_CONNECTION , run php artisan queue:work in a terminal, and emails send, PDFs generate and webhooks fire in the background. Then you deploy, close the terminal, and a week later a customer asks why their order confirmation never arrived.

I'm Muhammad Ali Mughal, and at Loop Origin , our Karachi team builds and maintains Laravel applications, including e-commerce stores that rely on queues for order emails, courier bookings, SMS and payment callbacks. This is the production setup we use, and the mistakes it's designed to prevent.

1. Pick a real queue driver

The sync driver runs jobs immediately inside the request, which is fine for tests but defeats the point in production. The database driver works and is a reasonable start for small apps.…