Direct Deposit of Refunds

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The University at Buffalo is partnered with Nelnet Campus Commerce to provide direct deposit of your refunds. You may have your financial aid or overpayment refunds (excluding credit card overpayments) deposited directly into your U.S. bank account.

Advantages to Direct Deposit

  • There is no risk of your check being lost or stolen in the mail
  • You don’t have to go to the bank to cash or deposit it
  • Funds for direct deposit participants will be available sooner when a refund is generated

Funds should be available within 2 business days from the time the direct deposit refund is initiated, depending on your financial institution.

Establish Direct Deposit

  1. If you have not already done so, establish a U.S. checking or savings account at any financial institution that is a member of the Automated Clearing House and which chooses to participate in the direct deposit program.
  2. Sign up for direct deposit in your HUB Student Center.  Click on Billing / Payments and then click on Payment Options.  You will then be brought into QuikPAY where you can click on Manage Refunds in the menu.

Please refer to our Enroll in Direct Deposit training guide for step by step instructions.

Edit or Remove Direct Deposit

You can make any changes to your direct deposit by logging into your HUB Student Center.  Click on Billing / Payments and then click on Payment Options.  You will then be brought into QuikPAY where you can click on Manage Refunds in the menu.

Once you are logged in:

  1. Click the Edit Refund Method link to edit your direct deposit account information.
  2. You will be prompted to manage mobile alerts. You may check both boxes if you so choose, but you must check the Confirm Your Identity By Text box in order to proceed. Enter in your 10 digit mobile phone number and click Save. If you do not wish to confirm your identity by text, click Save and you will receive an email with your verification code instead.
  3. If you checked both boxes, you should receive two text messages: 1. “You are now enrolled to receive SMS notifications from Student Choice Refunds. To unenroll, reply SCRSTOP to this message.
    2. “To edit your refund method, enter the Authentication Code XXXXX on Authentication page in Student Choice Refunds or reply SCRSTOP to stop receiving text messages from SCR".  If you chose not to enroll in mobile alerts, you should receive an email stating the following: "You have requested to edit your refund method. In order to proceed, please enter this code on the Authentication page of Refunds: XXXX".  Enter the Authentication Code received via text or email in the blank box under Authorization Code and click Submit.
  4. Click the Remove Refund Method link to remove your direct deposit account information.