About the Student Billing System

Summary: The Student Billing System (SBS) consolidates the financial transactions between a student and the University in a monthly account statement which records charges/debits and payments/credits.

Credits are applied to charges according to a hierarchy of payments, unapplied credit balances are disbursed to the student, and debit balances become current due amounts. Initially, charges are limited to registration (and related) fees. Credits are Financial Aid, Graduate Aid, waivers, PACE (payment) plans and cash.
The system also includes miscellaneous student fees (transcripts, laboratory charges), Housing, and other departmental invoices (Library, Student Health, etc.)

Functions

Consolidated Account

  • Real-time consolidated account information for query. Online query displays fee information, addresses, enrollment status, and eligibility for application of credits and payments for fees, amount due, account balance, and details for charges and payments.
  • Online application for PACE fees payment plan.

Billing

  • Billing for semester school students of Law.
  • Automated handling of student enrollment changes for additional charges and refund disbursement.

Payments

  • E-payment capability for students to pay account balance due online.
  • Payment applications to apply credits such as financial aid, graduate aid, waivers, and payments to student’s registration fees.

Credits

  • Refund disbursement process to generate pre-checks and allows users to prepare refund transactions on-line. Pre-checks are uploaded to the Purchasing/Accounts Payable Link system once a day (weekday) in the afternoon at 3:30 p.m.
  • Online waiver application for undergraduate student health insurance program (USHIP).
  • Waiver issuing and transferring to functional offices electronically in a near-real time mode.

Registration Process

  • Assessment for laboratory charges. Laboratory charge is assessed for those students who enroll in laboratory courses.
  • Generation of late registration fee. Late registration fee is assessed for those students who have not paid their fees after the fee payment deadline.
  • Assessment for late enrollment petition fees.
  • Online manual adjustment. Any manual adjustment to the student's account such as journal payment and invoices is handled through this process.
  • Generation of historical bills. Monthly run to generate historical ZotBills for those students who have activities during the current billing period and/or non-zero balance.
  • Write-off for uncollectable debts and transfer it to Accounts Receivable and Collections for the collection agencies.
  • Generation of reports for various business offices.

Data Exchange
  • Ledger posting for charges, payment applications, and refund disbursement to Financial System.
  • X-net Interface for data transmission between Registrar’s Office and student billing system via SBSREAD, SBSWRITE, SBSTRANS, and SBSMONITOR processes.
  • Direct Connect interface for data transmission between Office of Financial Aid Scholarships and Graduate Division.
  • Parameters maintenance including fee date, assessment, waiver type, waive description, bill date, bill message, waiver description.

Archives

  • Archival process for all the paid charges and applied payments/credits that have zero account balance due and transactions are two academic years ago at the end of 12th week of each quarter.
  • Archival process for unpaid tuition after the end of third week from the beginning of instructions.



Requirements
  • A logon id to the SBS database for SBS ZOTQuery and a UCINetID for SBS ZOT Account Online.
  • Authorization to access various SBS functions.
  • Download Powerbuilder deployment kits, PBD, and EXE files for SBS online programs from the designated FTP server at Office of Information Technology - Administrative Services.


Windows Environment, minimum recommended desktop configuration
  • 2 CPU based PC • 1.86 GHZ or above for clock speed
  • 1 GB RAM (memory) • Super VGA Display (640x480 256 color) • 1GB hard disk space • Microsoft Windows OS 2000 or above


Need an expert? For questions about SBS please contact Financial Services IT, OIT (Office of Information Technology).

Notice: University policies, procedures and applicable collective bargaining agreements shall supersede information in this document or elsewhere on this site.


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