{"id":74086,"date":"2014-01-21T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=74086"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:16:15","slug":"student-accounts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/admin\/student-systems\/student-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Accounts &amp; Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\" bu-callout alignright\"><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"tw icon-mapmarker\"><\/span> Quick Start<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Available to:<\/strong> Students, Staff, Departments, New\/Incoming Students, Guests<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost: <\/strong>No charge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See <a href=\"#GettingStarted\">Getting Started<\/a>, below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>The Student Accounts &amp; Collections service provides account status information to students, as well as tools for students, parents, and third parties to keep these accounts current.<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits<\/h2>\n<p>By providing all clients appropriate and convenient access to real-time student account charges and payments as well as financial assistance, this service provides relevant and accurate information to students, student-approved parents and third parties, and administrators. It provides the basis for timely response to change in student circumstance and ensures compliance with all University and government regulations.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Displays the current status of a student\u2019s account, provides \u201camount due\u201d summary information, and shows the most recent payment made by the student<\/li>\n<li>Allows a student to make a payment or request a refund<\/li>\n<li>Allows delegated access to parents and third parties to view and access the account information of a student<\/li>\n<li>Uses email notification to alert students of important student account related news and information<\/li>\n<li>Delivers information and transactional functionality through a variety of targeted portals<\/li>\n<li>Provides distributed management tools to administrators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What to Expect<\/h2>\n<p>This service normally will be available 24 by 7 except for standard change windows, as described in <a href=\"\/tech\/about\/service\/change\/\">IS&amp;T\u2019s standard policies, procedures, and schedules for making changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To Request Staff Access:\n<ul>\n<li>Contact your Unit\u2019s Data Security Administrator (DSA) to request permissions for access to functions and data.<\/li>\n<li>Based on the functionality requested, the individual will be contacted if training is required to use the service provided.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Delegates (someone authorized by the student to access their student records) need to be approved through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/academics\/ferpa\/delegated-access\/\">delegated access<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a id=\"GettingStarted\"><\/a>Getting Started<\/h2>\n<p>To get started with Student Accounts &amp; Collections use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mybu\/\">MyBU Student<\/a><\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Student Accounts &amp; Collections service provides self-service access to student account information, as well as tools for students, parents, and third parties to keep these accounts current&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1356,"featured_media":0,"parent":12350,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"service.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74086"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161072,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74086\/revisions\/161072"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}