Paying at the School Office

When card payment isn't how you're paying

Not every applicant pays online. Institutes can record a fee paid another way:

• Cash
• Cheque
• Bank transfer
• Other, for anything the school arranges outside those

You don't record these yourself. You pay the school, and an admissions officer records it against your application.

What to give the office

Ask them to note a reference — a receipt number, or the bank transfer reference. The record keeps a reference and notes alongside who recorded it, so a payment that's later queried can be traced back to the person who entered it and the paperwork behind it.

Keep your own copy of that reference until your application is submitted.

What changes once it's recorded

Recording the payment does two things at once:

• Your fee status becomes paid.
• Your application becomes a draft you can fill in.

So the point of paying is to open the form. If you've paid at the office and the application still won't let you proceed, the payment hasn't been recorded yet — that's a call to the office, not something to retry in the portal.

If the fee isn't set up

The office may find they can't record a payment because the institute's admission fee hasn't been configured. That's a setup task on the school's side, and nothing you can resolve from your end.

Related

• Paying Your Application Fee
• Applying to a School
• Signing In to Apply