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Make A Payment (to your student account):
USCe.pay offers secure online payment processing for your student account. Please note that inability to access USCe.pay does not excuse students from the responsibility for timely payment. To avoid late fees, if USCe.pay is not available, please review our OTHER Payment Methods...
Payments made after 5:00pm PST on the payment due date will be considered late. If your bank declines your payment request for any reason, it will be treated as a returned check and your account will be subject to late fees, returned check fees and finance charges.
Payments may be made using any combination of checking accounts, savings accounts, debit cards or credit cards, for any amount you enter. Please note that payments can not be accepted when there is no balance due.
USCe.pay accepts the following methods of online payment for student accounts:
- Electronic Check
please do NOT use your debit card number as an electronic account number, it is actually a debit/credit card number!
An electronic check is a transfer of funds from your U.S. Bank checking or savings account to USC. Please note that most banks do not accept electronic check payment requests from other types of accounts including: money market, mutual fund, line of credit and brokerage accounts. Also, debit card numbers are NOT valid for entry as your bank account number, and will be rejected by your bank as an invalid account number and result in a declined / rejected payment fee.
ACH payments should post to your student account within 1 business day, however they may take several days to appear on your bank account or to be rejected by your bank. If an ACH payment request is rejected by your bank, your student account will be debited and penalties may be assessed. And, you will need to contact your bank to find out why a payment request was rejected.
- Debit -and- Credit Card payments
Our payment processor accepts VISA, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover cards which have been issued by U.S. banking institutions. If your payment request is rejected, please contact your bank to find out why. If you are notified that a 'timeout' has occurred while your payment request was processing, you may contact your bank to find out whether the request was approved. If your billing address is foreign, you may try submitting your payment using the student's local address zip code. Debit / credit card payments should post to your student account within 1 business day.
Foreign debit / credit card payments may not be approved by the issuing bank. Frequently this is because online payments are not considered in-person transactions, or the payment amount may be over a certain limit. HOWEVER, if you would like to try using a foreign debit / credit card please use the student's local (U.S.) address and zip code when making the CC payment. Please contact your bank to find out why a payment request was rejected.
- International Wires using Travelex
We have added, for international students, the ability to pay by wire via Travelex in currency from a limited but growing number of countries. You can generate a payment document to take to your bank by going through the payment process and selecting "Pay with Foreign Currency" when you checkout. After you complete the simple on-line form, you can print out the document which then needs to be presented to your bank. The exchange rate is valid for 72 hours. Please remember that it can take several weeks for a wire transfer to reach USC, so plan accordingly to avoid late fees.
Click here to see a list of currencies available through Travelex as of 12/05/2011...
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