Billing
Configure tuition, fees, and payment processing.
Overview
Billing configuration includes:
- Billing methods
- Fee structures
- Payment plans
- Refund policies
Configuration Areas
| Area | Description |
|---|---|
| Billing Methods | How charges are calculated |
| Fee Types | Types of charges |
| Payment Plans | Installment options |
| Refund Schedules | Refund policies |
Card payments (ACI portal)
Card payments are taken by a separate application, the ACI payment portal at /pay, which uses ACI's hosted payment pages. It is not configured from these screens and is deployed on its own, not by the SIS deploy. It keeps its records in the SIS database's payments schema (migrations 153 and 265): payment types, payment sessions, and the result ACI posts back for each payment.
A payment type normally verifies which student it is for first (Student Account, from migration 153, does). Other College Activity (migration 265) does not: anyone may pay it, so its payments are attached to no student.
As of October 2026 the portal is in staging. Only the server-to-server postback from ACI is reachable from outside the campus network; the payment pages themselves need the campus network or ZPA until go-live. See Deployment for the routing.