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 start 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. To qualify for an IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan, you must have a minimum balance of $500 per semester. Currently, 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 list charges for tuition, fees, housing, and food, but the credits will be left blank. It is your responsibility to enter your credits from financial aid, 529 plan payments, or other payments. For graduate students, when signing up 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 view your upcoming semester charges if you have not yet been 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 card payments.

Although the payment plan options do not allow payments from accounts outside the United States, those wishing to make payments to the student account via wire transfer or international electronic transfer should use Convera GlobalPay for Students or Flywire through IRISHPAY. Learn more about making payments via international wire transfer. If you need 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 the 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 housing and food charge box. By doing this, your IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan will be calculated to not include housing and food charges.

Currently, a student can only have one IRISHPAY Monthly Payment Plan per academic year. If your family requires additional payment plans, please contact our office, and a staff member will be 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 they choose. If your 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 in any of the boxes on the right side of the budget worksheet, under the Credits section. We suggest dividing the total amount of financial aid you are to receive for the academic year in half, as you will receive half of the amount in the fall and the other half 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 signing up to ensure their budget worksheet accurately reflects the program's charges. 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 the health insurance cost that you will be charged each semester. To verify rates, please visit the UHS Health Insurance rates page.

• Click on 'Payment Plan' on the left side of the page
• Click on your 'Agreement ID' number
• At the top of the page will be the payment plan information
• On the line that is titled "Payment Method: CURRENT ACCOUNT LISTED," you will see the underlined 'Change Payment Method' located to the right of this line. Once you hover over this, it will turn into a hyperlink, and you will be able to click it and update your payment information