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Overview
A number of payment methods are available to students depending upon your payment option.
Foreign Currency Payments
Sterling remains the legal currency in Scotland therfore payment to the University must be in sterling. To help with non-sterling transactions the University provides payment services offering competitive exchange rates guaranteed at the time of transaction. The payments sent using these services are then given to the University in sterling.
Cash Payments
Cash payments greater than £100 cannot be accepted and we strongly advise, for security reasons, that a different payment method is used regardless of amount.
Your Student Fees Account
Your student fees account with Finance will be set up once your unconditional offer has been accepted and confirmed. You will then be able to view a statement of your account on the Finance Channel in the MyEd portal under MyStuff.
Any payments made will either be shown in the 'Unallocated Transactions' section at the end of the account (you may need to scroll down to view this) or in the 'Payments Made/Credits' column in 'My Invoices'.
The student number (UUN) should be given as the reference on any payment made. Failure to do this may delay the correct identification of funds received, and hence your matriculation.
Payments received and identified will be allocated to your tuition fee account normally within two workings days except during peak times such as the main registration period in September.
Payments are notified to the University in different timescales depending on the payment method used. These range from immediate notification to a few weeks. The transfer of cleared funds from the payer normally takes place a few days after the payment has been notified.
Guidelines showing normal timescales for each payment method are provided for information but are not guaranteed.
University Username
The UUN can be used as the login name or account name for services which that person is authorised to use. The form of UUN for undergraduate and postgraduate students is a lower case letter "s" followed by their matriculation number, e.g. s0212345.
The UUN is used for services like accounts in open-access labs and the Student Mail Service.
Online payment
Payment by credit or debit card with immediate notification of payment.
Bank-to-bank transfer
Offering the choice of 32 different currencies with a guaranteed exchange rate plus payment in sterling. Once the transfer is finalised notification of payment is normally given in 3 working days.
Debit or credit card payment
Competitive dynamic currency conversion rates are available for 20 different currencies plus payment in sterling with immediate notification of payment.
Payment by cheque or banker's draft
Notification of payment will depend on how the payment has been delivered.
Payment by Sterling traveller's cheques
Immediate notification but payable in person only.
This article was published on May 2, 2012