Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security

Heartland accelerates campus aid distribution

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Heartland Payment Systems revealed its newest campus solution, an electronic financial aid distribution platform that utilizes a single financial account for easy integration with campus card systems.

The Acceluraid (accelerate-your-aid) program enables students fast and easy access to financial aid refunds through a single account that can be linked to a prepaid campus ID card or a school-branded debit card that meets Title IV, Regulation E and PCI requirements.


North Central Missouri College is one of the first to use the Acceluraid program, in distributing $2 million in financial aid to its 1,700 students. Students can access funds through online bill pay, free withdrawals from the Heartland provided ATMs, as well as cash back options from participating merchants.

Acceluraid eliminates the need to issue paper checks, thus reducing the costs, delays and other challenges associated with aid disbursement.

Acceluraid expands students’ off-campus purchasing power by providing them with a debit card from a major card brand that is accepted at millions of locations. [end] 

Tennessee’s Board of Regents has chosen Heartland Payment Systems’ Campus Solutions division to handle financial aid disbursement and refund management through Heartland’s Acceluraid financial aid disbursement product. The contract covers six universities, 13 community colleges and 27 technology centers.

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Heartland Payment Systems Campus Solutions division has recruited 12 higher education districts and campuses totaling 20 different colleges to manage the schools’ financial aid disbursement services utilizing Heartland’s Acceluraid electronic disbursement product.

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Students at Park Hills, Mo.-based Mineral Area College will be receiving their financial aid refunds faster this year through a prepaid card issued by Central National Bank in Oklahoma.

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Heartland Payment Systems Campus Solutions division, in partnership with Bridgeway Solutions, an identification and security solutions provider, has been chosen as one of South Carolina’s preferred system providers for electronic disbursement of financial aid refunds and payments to students.

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Florida students have more payment options thanks to wireless WaveRiders

A new laundry payment and management system at the University of Florida accepts the GatorOne campus ID card as well as credit and debit cards.

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Fox News Business has taken a look at university IDs that also double as prepaid cards. Fox dubs the prepaid aspect as “the latest twist on a long tradition of college campus ID cards serving a dual financial purpose.”

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