Monthly Payment Plan FAQs

The annual and fall only plan will be available in mid April. Continuing students and their families can begin signing up at that time. Incoming students and their families can begin signing up in early May after they have activated their netID and have access to IRISHPAY. The spring only plan will be available in mid October.

A student or any authorized payer on the student account can sign up for the plan if they are eligible. In order to be eligible for an IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan, you must have a minimum balance of $500 per semester. At this time, there can be only one payment plan per student account. If your family needs additional payment plans, please contact our office.

For undergraduate students, when signing up for the IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan, you will have to fill in a budget worksheet. The budget worksheet will already have charges for tuition, fees, room and meals listed on it but the credits will be left blank. It is your responsibilty to enter in your credits from financial aid, 529 plan payments or other payments. For graduate students, when signin gup for the IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan, you will need to fill in your charges and credits on your budget worksheet. Please visit our rates page to find out your upcoming semester charges if you have yet to be billed.

No, payments will be automatically debited from the U.S. checking or savings account you have chosen when signing up for the plan. Unfortunately our office does not accept any type of card payments.

Although the payment plan options do not allow for payments from accounts outside of the United States, those wishing to make payments to the student account via wire transfer or international electronic transfer should do so using Convera GlobalPay for Students through IRISHPAY. Learn more about making payments via international wire transfer. If you are needing a payment arrangement, please contact our office and a member of our staff will be happy to assist you.

No, the IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan is based upon a 10-month period that runs from June to March. We encourage students and families to enroll in the plan prior to the May 25 deadline in order to make the first payment on June 1. If you are not yet aware of your financial aid, we encourage students and authorized payers to enter the financial aid amount received during the previous year until the new amount is received. Once the new amount of financial aid is received, your IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan can be recalculated to account for any difference in the financial aid.

If your IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan amount does not cover the balance due on the student account, or if your IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan is more than the balance due on the student account, a notice will display within IRISHPAY that the account is out of balance and the account owner will be able to increase or decrease the amount of the plan.

To adjust the IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan balance amount:

• Log in to IRISHPAY
• Click "Payment Plan"
• Click on your underlined agreement ID# at the top of the screen
• Scroll down to the Payment Plan Installments section
• Click the link "Adjust Balance" on the right-hand side
• Follow on-screen instructions to complete rebalancing
• Click "Continue"

This will bring you back to the "Payment Plan Details" page. 

Our payment plan budget worksheet is customizable, therefore, you have the option to highlight and delete the amount that will be autopopulated into the room and food charge box. By doing this, your IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan will be calculated to not include room and meal charges.

At this time, no, a student can only have one IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan per academic year. If your family is needing additional payment plans, please contact our office and a staff member will be more than happy to assist you.

The amount your students account will be charged or prorated can be calculated in their IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan based on the meal plan of their choosing. If you student is adding a meal plan or increasing the cost of their already assigned meal plan, you can add the difference into the Other (books, Laundry, etc.) box in the budget worksheet on the Charges side. If your student is reducing their meal plan and will receive a credit, you can add the difference into the Other Direct Payments box in the budget worksheet on the Credits side.

When signing up for the IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan, you will have to complete a budget worksheet. On the budget worksheet there are credits listed, which will be autopopulated to $0.00. You can enter your financial aid into any of the boxes on the right side of the budget worksheet under the Credits side. We suggest taking the total amount of financial aid that you are to receive for the academic year and divide that into two since you will receive half of the amount in the fall and half of the amount in the spring. Enter that amount into one of the four boxes available under the Credits side.

Yes. Students who are studying abroad have access to sign up for the IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan. We encourage those who are signing up to make sure that their budget worksheet is correct with the charges of the program. For additional information on the cost breakdown, please visit our International Study Programs rates page.

During the enrollment process of setting up your IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan, on your budget worksheet next to the 'Other (books, Laundry, etc.)' enter in the health insurance cost that you will be charged each semester. To verify rates, please visit the UHS Health Insurance rates page.