The Bursar’s Office bills for the Graduate, Undergraduate and Continuing Education students. The University of Massachusetts-Amherst campus has transitioned to electronic bills.

QuikPAY is the system for all students to view and or pay their bills online and it is the preferred method of payment.

QuikPAY

For Students: Bills are available online. Notification of electronic bills are sent to students to view and/or pay their bills online. QuikPAY is the preferred method of payment. To access QuikPAY students should go to their Student Center in SPIRE and then click on "View/Pay Bill" in the Finances section.

For Parents and Guardians. Students can set up parents and other
individuals as Authorized Payers in SPIRE. Students will input the payer’s email and assign a temporary password. Authorized Payers will receive an email with their login name, and after signing in with the password provided by the student they can select a new password for future use. Each billing cycle, the payers will receive an email notifying them that the bill is available through a link in the text of the message. Go to www.umass.edu/bursar for more details.

FERPA: (The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) is a federal law protecting the confidentiality of your student records. In compliance with FERPA, Umass Amherst must have the student’s written permission to release information from your records. You can provide permission by filling out a FERPA privacy waiver online. Completing the Waiver will allow whomever you designate to communicate with the university about your bill, financial aid, housing and UCard funds. You may also edit your FERPA Waiver at any time to change or eliminate your designees.

The FERPA Privacy waiver is limited to three categories of information: finance, housing and UCard. It does not allow your designees access to your academic information (such as your grades). Fill out the FERPA Privacy Waiver through SPIRE; navigate to the Student Menu-Holds & To do’s FERPA Privacy Waiver.

Please be aware that having the FERPA waiver access does not authorize you as a payer under QuikPAY; just like the QuikPAY access does not give you the FERPA access. These two categories have their own separate passwords.

Billing Tips

Always be in good standing with the University by meeting your financial obligations to the Bursar’s Office by all published deadlines. Failure to do so will result in any one or combination of the following sanctions depending on the specific time in the semester in which your financial account is in arrears.

*Meal privileges in the dining halls will be suspended.
*Registration will be cancelled and your classes will be dropped.
*Eviction from the residence halls.
*Registration holds for any future semesters.
*Administrative Withdrawal

The Bursar would also like to remind you of the following:

*Never disregard a University billing statement
*Check your University OIT account for emails and your Spire account as well for billing information.
*Carefully, read everything you receive from the Bursar’s Office
*Create a file for your University billing statements and any correspondence or notes regarding the statements. Also, include any information pertaining to your financial aid.
*Keep copies of all bills for tax reporting purposes.
*Be aware of all deadlines, Do Not wait until last minute to question your bill.