# SaaSBold

Next.js 16 SaaS starter with admin dashboard and three payment providers

https://topboilerplates.com/saasbold

Framework: Next.js | Pricing: Freemium, from $149 | GitHub stars: 182

## Verdict

Best for: Solo founders shipping a single-tenant B2C or prosumer app who want a polished UI, a real admin panel, and a choice of Stripe, Paddle or LemonSqueezy for a $149 one-time fee.

Skip if: You are building B2B SaaS with teams, workspaces or per-organization billing — there is no multi-tenancy here, and you would be retrofitting it into someone else's schema.

## Description

SaaSBold is a Next.js 16 starter running React 19, Tailwind v4, Prisma against PostgreSQL, and Auth.js, sold as a one-time purchase starting at $149 for one developer. Paid tiers add an admin dashboard with roles and login-as-user, a user dashboard, a Sanity-backed blog, and Figma source files from the $219 tier up. Billing arrives pre-wired for Stripe, LemonSqueezy and Paddle (you pick one by swapping an import — they aren't concurrent), with Algolia search, Mailchimp and the OpenAI SDK also in the box. It is built for single-tenant products: there are no organizations, teams or workspaces anywhere in it.

## Pros and cons

+ Stack is genuinely current — Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind v4 — so you are not paying to inherit a migration backlog on day one.

+ All three payment integrations (Stripe, LemonSqueezy, Paddle) ship in the box and you pick one by swapping an import — unusual at this price, and it matters if you want a merchant of record handling EU VAT rather than filing it yourself.

+ The admin dashboard covers user management, an ADMIN/USER role flag and login-as-user — support tooling most founders end up hand-rolling in month three.

+ Design is the strongest part of the package, and the Figma source at the $219 tier and above means you can extend the UI without reverse-engineering it from JSX.

- No multi-tenancy, teams or per-workspace billing. For B2B this is not a missing nice-to-have, it is the data model, and bolting it on afterward touches auth, schema and every query you write.

- Auth.js is configured for magic links, social and email/password. The pricing page markets this as 'Multi-factor Authentication', but it means multiple sign-in methods, not a second factor — there is no TOTP or passkey support. Any customer security questionnaire will ask, and the answer is yours to build.

- You are buying code you cannot read first. The only public repo is the free Lite tier, which is the landing page alone; its most recent commit as of this review (Aug 2026) was 2026-05-23, and that tells you nothing about how actively the paid codebase is maintained.

- Almost nobody is talking about it. It did not surface in the big Reddit boilerplate recommendation threads, and most of what is written about it is comparison content published by competitors or affiliate sites — so there is little independent signal on what breaks after six months of real use.

## Features

- auth-included
- social-login
- magic-link
- rbac-roles
- impersonation
- payments-included
- subscriptions
- landing-page
- admin-dashboard
- user-dashboard
- blog-cms
- account-settings
- file-uploads
- search
- i18n
- email-marketing
- typescript-strict
- eslint-prettier
- free-tier
- source-available
- one-time-license
- team-license

## Stack

- TypeScript
- Tailwind
- Prisma
- Postgres
- NextAuth
- Stripe
- Lemon Squeezy
- Paddle
- OpenAI
- Vercel

## Links

- Website: https://topboilerplates.com/go/saasbold
- GitHub: https://github.com/SaaSBold/saasbold-lite
- Demo: https://demo.saasbold.com/

## Alternatives

- [IndieKit](https://topboilerplates.com/indiekit)
- [Carrot Seed](https://topboilerplates.com/carrot-seed)
- [ShipFast](https://topboilerplates.com/shipfast)