Receipt of payment will be listed on your online bill within approximately one business day. Payments made on-line should post within a few minutes of confirmation. Receipts for e-check or credit card payments are provided via the online confirmation issued at the time of payment. If you desire a receipt for mailed or safe deposit payments, please submit a written request in a self-addressed envelope to:

Bursar Operations
University of Cincinnati
PO Box 210061
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0061

Payment reversals can happen for various different reasons.  If you have a question regarding online payment reversals, contact the Bursar Operations Team by e-mail at cashiers@ucmail.uc.edu or phone at (513) 556-4252.

There are many reasons why an on-line payment is returned. The most common is user data entry error at the time of payment. Please use caution and double check your account information before submitting the payment. The payer will receive an e-mail notification of the return which includes the reason for the return. If you have further questions, please contact the Bursar Operations Team by e-mail at cashiers@ucmail.uc.edu or phone (513) 556-4252.

The returned payment service charge is $35.  If a check, electronic check (eCheck), or credit card authorization is returned, you may be required to make future payments by money order or certified cashier's check.  If a check, electronic check (eCheck), or credit card authorization was made to avoid a late fee, or to remove a service block, the late fee will be assessed, and a service block will be reinstated if the bank returns the check, electronic check (eCheck), or credit card transaction.

Time varies and often depends on your bank. Please allow up to 14 business days for notification of a returned payment.

Check payments will be resubmitted one additional time before they are returned to the university. Online eCheck payments are submitted one time.

Problems with payment postings can occur for various reasons.  If you have a problem with any payment postings, contact the Bursar Operations Team by e-mail at cashiers@ucmail.uc.edu or phone at (513) 556-4252.

All student bills are on-line and are generally available immediately after you register or change your schedule. Students should check their on-line bill frequently because various charges could post at any time. As a courtesy, you may receive an e-mail notification to your UConnect e-mail account that your bill is available for viewing and payment. You will NOT receive a paper bill in the mail.

Web payments to post within a few minutes of confirmation. Payment needs to be received by 11:59 PM on the due date.

It will post by the end of the next business day.  In most cases it will post the same business day. Every effort is made to check the drop box on business days at approximately 8:00 AM and 2:00 PM and payments posted to the student's account by 5:00 PM.

Failure to make a timely payment may result in the assessment of a late payment fee, interest and may result in a service block that will restrict the release of records (transcripts and diploma) and registration for future terms. Each month, students having an outstanding balance will be notified through their UConnect e-mail to go to the student portal to review/pay their account.

The University Rules authorize Collections to restrict any services, including the release of records (transcripts and diploma) and registration for future terms, until any past due amount owed to the university, including but not limited to fees, tuition, charges, fines and loans due to the university, are paid in full.

University Rule 20-17-02, item B states that the necessary procedures are adopted to ensure that payments on account are made promptly and for the full amount due. Procedures to guarantee payment of such accounts shall include, but not be limited to: billings; collection letters; telephone contacts; use of collection agencies; referral to counsel for litigation; withholding transcripts, grades and diplomas; and denial of the ability to register for future terms.

University Rule 20-31-06, item C states that the student shall be responsible for discharging all his/her university financial obligations, such as payment of deferred fees, housing fees, tuition, laboratory fees, matriculation fees, or delinquent obligations. Students who are delinquent in paying charges accrued in a previous term may be denied the right to receive transcripts or diplomas until such fees are paid in full.

If you have been informed that you have a service block on your account, you must contact the university office that initiated the service block. The office will instruct you in the specific procedures you will need to follow to clear the service blocks. Each university office is responsible for removing its specific blocks.

Students who have an unpaid balance due to the university for a current or previous term may be blocked from enrolling for a future term. Yet, because early registration dates for future terms may precede the payment deadline for a current term, or because of other individual situations, some students with unpaid balances will have been able to enroll for a future term.  Students who have an unpaid balance yet who are enrolled in classes for a future term will have fourteen (14) calendar days from the beginning of that term to pay their past due balance in its entirety or their enrollments for that term may be administratively cancelled. 

A registration block will prevent re-enrollment into administratively cancelled classes.  The registration block will be removed only when the entire balance has been paid in full. Once the registration block is removed following full payment, then the student must attempt re-enrollment into the previously-enrolled classes or enrollment into other open classes using either on-line or in-person registration.

The student’s administratively-cancelled class enrollments will not be reinstated automatically upon payment of the unpaid balance. Enrollment into classes following administrative cancellation is solely the student’s responsibility. Understand that your attempt to re-enroll into the classes for which you were previously enrolled prior to the administrative cancellation for non-payment will be on a first-come/first-served basis and the classes may be closed by the time of your attempt. It is therefore in your best interest to avoid administrative cancellation for non-payment by paying your tuition and fee bill in full each term by the established deadline.

Be advised that every effort (letters, e-mails, etc.) will be made to notify students when they are at risk for administrative enrollment cancellation for non-payment.  Each student, however, is responsible both for monitoring his/her student bill on a regular basis and for ensuring all fees are paid by the due date. The student solely is responsible for the administrative enrollment cancellation and/or late payment fee consequences arising from non-payment and/or late payment.