Mizzou centralizes eCommerce and improves customer experience TouchNet’s uPay and uStore solutions — already popular among campus groups — yielded unexpected benefits during the pandemic and helped keep good programs up and running. Photo courtesy of the University of Missouri. Each of the University of Missouri’s four campuses followed separate policies and procedures for years. […]

According to foodservicedirector.com, 85 percent of returning college students are wary of ordering food on campus amid COVID-19. With 29 percent of those students reporting they would avoid eateries without contactless ordering and payments and just under 50 percent reporting they’d be more likely to patronize eating establishments that do, offering some form of contactless dining […]

Most, if not all, colleges and universities would choose any type of electronic transaction over paper checks in a heartbeat since check payments cost more and take longer to process. While consumers agree, the majority of them prefer the fastest refund delivery method. ACH vs OCT Between the two electronic refund methods — Automated Clearing […]

Nearly half of college students and their families choose paper checks for refunds and other payments, which costs more and takes longer for institutions to process as opposed to electronic methods. The number of check disbursements continues to rise as additional students request refunds and work to manage their finances as a result of COVID-19. […]