Form Fields: Name and Phone Not Passed Along with Request in Paystack - laravel

Question

I am trying to implement Paystack in Laravel; I'm using their suggested documentation for Laravel. The issue is that the amount and email get passed onto the Paystack database, but the customer's name and phone details aren't. How do I get it to be passed along to Paystack?
I have configured the checkout process as mentioned in the documentation based on https://github.com/unicodeveloper/laravel-paystack. I'm using Windows 10 and running Laravel 5.6 and PHP 7.3.
<form class="needs-validation" action="{{ route('pay') }}" method="POST">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 mb-3">
<label for="first_name">First name</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="first_name"
placeholder="first name" value="" name="first_name" required="">
</div>
<div class="col-md-6 mb-3">
<label for="last_name">Last name</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="last_name"
placeholder="last Name" name="last_name" value="" required="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="mb-3">
<label for="email">Email <span class=" text-danger"> * </span>
</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" name="email"
placeholder="you#example.com" required>
</div>
{{ csrf_field() }}
<hr class="mb-4">
<button class="btn btn-success btn-lg btn-block" type="submit"
value="Pay Now!">
<i class="fa fa-plus-circle fa-lg"></i> Complete Payment!
</button>
</form>
I expected that after the payment is complete, the customer data should contain the customer email, and name. But it returns only the email in the customer array.

Answer 1

you have to implement it yourself, before the pay button try to have a form like this
<form action="/myform" method="post">
<input type="text" name="fullname">
<input type="number" name="phone_number">
<button>submit</button>
</form>
Route::post('/myform','controllerhere#form1')->name('name');
Route::get('/pay','controller#function')->name('pay');
Route::post('/pay','controller#function')->name('pay');
then your controller to look like this
public function form1(Request $request){
$request->validate([....]);
save the form and return redirect to your payment form like this
..
return redirect('/pay');
}
then payments can be made, please the above codes are just samples to help

Answer 2

Alternatively if you check the https://github.com/unicodeveloper/laravel-paystack package, there is a commented section in the paystack.php; this contains a sample of how to add custom_fields to the metadata.
`<input type="hidden" name="metadata" value="{{ json_encode($array) }}" >`
$array = [ 'custom_fields' => [
['display_name' => "Cart Id", "variable_name" => "cart_id", "value" => "2"],
['display_name' => "Sex", "variable_name" => "sex", "value" => "female"],
]
]
Edit this to add name of the customer and amount then if you dd($paymentdatails) you will see the details in metadata.