Payment must be received by the Bursar’s Office before the designated due date to prevent an administrative drop of your courses. The university will not be responsible for cash payments sent by mail or deposited at drop boxes. Postmarks will be disregarded.
Registration fees paid by check or credit card are not considered valid until the bank has cleared the payment. Checks and credit cards not cleared by the bank, including "stop payment" checks, may cancel your registration. It is each student's responsibility to formally withdraw from classes prior to the refund deadline dates. Failure to withdraw will result in a "balance due" on your account and prevent you from registering in future quarters.
Effective April 28, 2004-ALL credit card transactions (MasterCard, Diner's Club, American Express and Discover) will be processed by CASHNet® SmartPay and a service fee will be charged to the user. Effective May 1, 2004 credit cards will no longer be accepted at the Bursar office or at the Palm Desert Office.
Our campus merchant fees are currently over $300,000 per year. Due to the serious budget concerns facing the University, CSUSB can no longer absorb this cost.
In order to give the students and their parents several payment options, CSUSB is implementing the following:
CASHNet SmartPay which will accept MasterCard, Diner's Club, American Express, Discover Card, and electronic checks and will charge a service fee of 2.9% per transaction to the user.
CASHNet SMARTPAY is operated by Informed Decisions Corp., a private company completely independent from the colleges and universities that contract with it to provide electronic payment services. CASHNet SmartPay enables its users to pay with a credit card or an electronic check.
The service charge is for the convenience of the payment method, the cost of the associated services, and for the development and ongoing operations of the CASHNet SmartPay web site and telephone services.
* The Campus will pick up the costs associated with the campus electronic check processing and ATM debit cards.
