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Enrollment in the PittPAY Payment Plan is optional.  You may wait for your eBill to be posted in PittPAY and make payment in full by the due date on the eBill, or you may elect to enroll in the payment plan and pay in installments instead.  The eBill and due date schedule is published on the Message Board in PittPAY.  If you elect to enroll in a payment plan you will not receive eBills because you will be paying in installments that will be automatically deducted on the 5th of each month from the bank account or credit card you specify when enrolling in the payment plan.

Enrollment for payment plans is through PittPAY.  The fall and spring term-related plans begin as early as May for fall term and November for spring term, and include from six to two installments.  There is also an annual plan for both fall and spring terms that begins as early as May and includes up to 12 installments.  The summer term plan has three installments beginning in May.

There is a $55 non-refundable enrollment fee for the fall, spring, and summer plans, and a $90 non-refundable enrollment fee for the annual plan (that encompasses both fall and spring terms).  Students must owe more than $500 per term to qualify for enrollment.

Payments will be automatically deducted from the credit card or personal checking account you specify during the payment plan enrollment process in PittPAY.  That means the credit card or personal checking account you identify will be automatically charged for the enrollment fee and for each monthly installment.  Payment Plan installments can only be paid by automatic deduction, from a credit card or personal checking account.  If you elect to pay by credit or debit card, you will be charged a non-refundable 2.75% service charge for each transaction.  No fee is charged for payments made by eCheck from a personal checking account.

The enrollment fee will be deducted as soon as you complete the payment plan enrollment process.  Each installment will be automatically deducted on the 5th of the month. You will not receive eBills in PittPAY if you are enrolled in a payment plan. 

Since you can enroll in a fall or annual payment plan before the University has determined tuition, room and meal plan rates for a new academic year (this typically does not occur until mid-July), and you can enroll in a spring or summer plan before tuition and fees are calculated on your student account, the payment plan’s budget calculator will assist you in determining your estimated payment plan budget.  The amount of your early installments will be based on the estimated amounts you determine using the budget calculator and budget worksheet during the Payment Plan enrollment process.

Once the student is registered for classes for the term and has actual charges posted to the student account, we will automatically adjust your payment plan balance to match the amount due on the student account.  We will subtract anticipated financial aid that has not yet applied to the student account in computing the adjusted amount of the actual payment plan balance.

We will check the student account shortly before the auto-debit each month and automatically adjust the amount of the remaining payment plan balance when the student has actual charges and payments posted to the student account.  We will rebalance the remaining installments by dividing the actual student account balance, less anticipated financial aid, by the number of installments remaining. 

Students will always be notified of any change we make to the payment plan balance and to the amount of remaining installments.  Authorized Payers will be notified if they are the owner of the payment plan. In addition, during the enrollment process, the payment plan owner can designate if they wish any Authorized Payer to have access to see the plan details and/or receive emails from the plan. Students are notified to their Pitt email address and Authorized Payers are notified to the email address in their PittPAY User Preferences. 

Once we have adjusted the payment plan balance to correspond to the student account, if an installment deduction is not successful you will be terminated from the payment plan.  This might occur if a credit card transaction is declined, or an eCheck is returned for insufficient funds or the bank account is closed.  You will also be charged a $30 non-refundable fee for each failed payment plan installment.  If you wish to enroll in a new plan after this occurs, you will be charged another non-refundable enrollment fee.

Students who enroll in the payment plan will be the payment plan owner.  Students can also create an Authorized Payer in PittPAY and that individual may log into PittPAY, using the login ID and password their student has assigned to them, and enroll their student in a payment plan.  In that case the Authorized Payer will be the payment plan owner.  All email notifications generated by payment plan activity are sent to the payment plan owner, and the student. 

Students can have only one active payment plan for the academic period at a time.  For example, a student may have only one fall plan or one annual plan for a specified academic year (two Authorized Payers may not each have a plan for the same student in the same academic period such as fall term).

To create an Authorized Payer, students log onto My Pitt, select PittPAY Login, then select Authorized Payer from the PittPAY menu and follow the instructions.

Please note that we cannot discuss any student account details with individuals who are not designated in PittPAY as the student's Authorized Payers. 

To Enroll in a Payment Plan:

Students log onto My Pitt, select PittPAY Login, and then select Payment Plan from the PittPAY menu.                                                                                                                                    

Authorized Payers log onto http://student-info.pitt.edu, then select Authorized Payers login to PittPAY.  Enter the PittPAY login name and password your student assigned then select Payment Plan from the PittPAY menu.

To Change The Payment Method On a Payment Plan:

The Payment Plan owner has the ability to change the payment method. To do so, the owner should log into their PittPAY account, select Payment Plan, and then select View Details.

The information box shows the current Payment Method. Select Change Payment Method to change or update subsequent automatic payments.

Any changes or updates to the Payment Method must be completed no later than 1 calendar day before the date of the scheduled automatic installment payments. For example, a payment is scheduled for Tuesday October 5 and the Payment Plan owner would like to change the bank account that date's automatic installment payment will be drawn from. The Payment Plan owner must have changed the payment method by midnight Eastern Time on October 4 for the installment payment to be drawn from the new bank account instead of the old one.

Number of Installments Offered in the Payment Plan Enrollment Process:

Enroll in a Payment Plan before this date	Number of installments you will be offered
Fall term
May 5	6 installments
June 5	5 installments
July 5	4 installments
August 5	3 installments
Spring Term
November 5	6 installments
December 5	5 installments
January 5	4 installments
Summer Term
May 5	3 installments
June 5	2 installments

If you are on a Payment Plan you will not receive eBills because your installments will be automatically debited on the 5th of each month.

If you do not elect to enroll in a Payment Plan you will receive eBill notifications each time a new eBill has been posted in PittPAY for your attention.  Each eBill has a due date and payment will be expected to be made in full by that due date to avoid late payment fees.