Giving customer cash back with no purchase

[CDFloyd]

Hi, I live in Virginia-

if a friend walked into my store and asked me to run his card for $100 and give him $100 back in cash, could I legally do that?

would it make a difference if he made a purchase or not?

would I be allowed to do the same if I keyed in the card instead?

thank you!

[VanKalkerFarms]

Giving Cash Back with or without a purchase is against the Terms of Service.  https://squareup.com/legal/payment see section 22 I believe on cash advances.  It would also get really tricky when you start doing it for friends and family to as that could be seen as a type of money laundering possibly too.  Plus you as the business will be eating approx $3 for every $100 you gave as cash back.

see this other community post when they discovered it was against terms https://squareup.com/legal/payment