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The Bursar’s Office offers an enhanced e-Commerce System (with instructional videos) for paying your LIM extension (onsite) program tuition. This service is offered to students for viewing bills, making payments, and managing their student account. In addition, students may set up Loyola Administrative Liaisons and Facilitators, or other third party payers such as parish bookkeepers or other employers, as authorized users to access their student account. The student chooses the amount of access they allow their authorized user; they can limit access to only allow payments to be made, or viewing of the student bills.
Tuition payments may also be made via wire transfer for international payments or by mail (check or money order) with a copy of the student’s bill.
Tuition payment options through Loyola’s e-Commerce system include paying by Electronic Check (Free Service) and payment by all major credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. Tuition payments by credit card are only accepted online through the e-Commerce processor who will charge a 2.75% non-refundable convenience fee.
The e-Commerce system should be available every day except during daily scheduled maintenance which occurs from 3:45AM (CST) until 8:00AM (CST).
For Students
Access the e-Commerce System through your LORA account under the Tuition and Billing Section or through the e-Commerce login page. Accessing your account from either link requires your CWID and PIN. Please DO NOT use your Social Security Number as it may display incomplete account information. To view your account online at LORA, click on the "Login to Student Services" link and follow the prompts that will appear on the screen.
Create an Authorized User
To allow your liaison, facilitator, or parish bookkeeper to have access to your account in order to pay a portion of your tuition, you will need his or her email address. After logging into the e-Commerce System, do the following:
- Select the Authorized User tab within the e-Commerce System
- Select Add an Authorized User
- Enter the email address of the Authorized User
- Choose your preference regarding the Authorized User’s access to your account (view billing statement / view payment history)
- Select Add User
- Agree to the online terms and select Continue
- Confirmation appears that the Authorized User has been added and instructions are sent to the Authorized User’s email address
The Authorized User will receive an email notification that access was granted to your account.
Obtaining a Copy of Your Bill
Students requiring their billing statement to send to a third party may print these statements from LORA after their course registration is completed by the LIM Registration Coordinator at Loyola University. If your tuition charges do not appear in LORA, you may request a billing statement from Student Finance by emailing: stufinan@loyno.edu or by calling the office at (504) 865-3337.
Please keep in mind that the University's billing cycle follows the on-campus schedule, so there might be a period of time which your account may not reflect tuition charges for a particular semester. This most often occurs for Spring and Summer course registrations due to the flexible start dates of the extension program courses. The first billing date for the Fall semester is July 15th; the Spring is December 15th, and the Summer is May 15th.
For Liaisons and Facilitators
If you wish to pay a portion of a student’s tuition via the e-Commerce System, that student will need to follow the procedure above to make you an Authorized User. Once he or she does so, you will receive an email containing your temporary password. At that time, you can access the e-Commerce system by signing in under the Authorized Users section of the login page with your email address and temporary password. When you log in for the first time, you will be instructed to edit your profile and create your own password.
Make a Payment
- After logging in, click on the Select Student tab
- Click on the name of the student for whom you wish to may a payment
- Click on the Make a Payment tab
- Select the Pay icon
- Select your payment method with the drop down menu (Credit Card or e-Check)
- Enter all requested payment information; then click Go. (Note: You have the option to store your banking or credit card account information in the secured e-Commerce system for the ease of future payments.)
- Enter the amount you wish to pay and the date of the payment; then click Continue
- When the payment confirmation screen appears, you must click Submit or the payment will not be made.
- After you click Submit, you will see a screen confirming that payment was made; a confirmation email will also be sent.
- You may then click on the Select Student tab and repeat the process for another student, or you may click the Log Out on the top right-hand corner of the screen.
Features of the E-Commerce System
The e-Commerce System offers Important Information and Ask for Help links in the upper right-hand corner of the screen; these links will open in new window so as not to interrupt your session.
The My Profiles tab allows you to access your Personal Profile in order to change your preferred email address and password, while the Payment Profile allows you to edit or create a stored payment method.
For Additional Information
Please go to the Bursar's Frequently Asked Questions page to learn more about
- Viewing Current and Prior Billing Statements
- Paperless Billing
- Storing a Payment Method
- Adding an Authorized User
- Creating an e-Refund Profile
Liaisons may find more detailed information in the Administrative Handbook; students may find additional information in the Policy Manual. Both documents are available on the documents web page.