Laravel Model Flags is an awesome package that offers a trait that allows you to add flags to an Eloquent model. $user->hasFlag('receivedMail'); // returns false $user->flag('receivedMail'); // flag the user as having received the mail $user->hasFlag('receivedMail'); // returns true You can install the package via Composer: composer require spatie/laravel-model-flags Behind the scenes, the flags and their relation to a model will be stored in the flags table. To create that flags table, you must publish and run the migrations once with: php artisan vendor:publish --tag="model-flags-migrations" php artisan migrate