How to integrate square with Laravel - php

Question

I have an app in Laravel and I am following this tutorial. I cloned a sample repo from here and When I try to make a pyament form this, it gives me the following response
Caught exception!
Response body:
object(stdClass)[6]
public 'errors' =>
array (size=1)
0 =>
object(stdClass)[7]
public 'category' => string 'INVALID_REQUEST_ERROR' (length=21)
public 'code' => string 'VALUE_TOO_LOW' (length=13)
public 'detail' => string '`amount_money.amount` must be greater than 100.' (length=47)
public 'field' => string 'amount_money.amount' (length=19)
Response headers:
array (size=12)
0 => string 'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request' (length=24)
'Content-Type' => string 'application/json' (length=16)
'Vary' => string 'Origin, Accept-Encoding' (length=23)
'X-Content-Type-Options' => string 'nosniff' (length=7)
'X-Download-Options' => string 'noopen' (length=6)
'X-Frame-Options' => string 'SAMEORIGIN' (length=10)
'X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies' => string 'none' (length=4)
'X-Xss-Protection' => string '1; mode=block' (length=13)
'Date' => string 'Sat, 29 Oct 2016 08:23:51 GMT' (length=29)
'Keep-Alive' => string 'timeout=60' (length=10)
'Strict-Transport-Security' => string 'max-age=631152000' (length=17)
'content-length' => string '161' (length=3)
It worked when i tried the sandbox.
How can I make square to charge any amount that is less than USD 100?
How can I validate the card i.e. in the form given in the github repo, they don't ask for card holder name?
How can I integrate other payment methods with square like cash or cheque?

Answer 1

It sounds like you are trying to make a web based point of sale. To answer your questions:
The minimum charge for Credit Cards, both in the Square Register app and the API is $1.00 (the 100 amount includes cents)
The cards are primarily validated with CVV and postal code, which you should see as required fields in the form.
At this time you cannot create payments for other tender types like cash or check through the API. (This is primarily because our transaction APIs are used for e-commerce exclusively, while custom point of sales are usually created with our Register APIs)