Pay for accommodation

All students need to pay a four week advance rent payment within 48 hours of accepting their accommodation offer to secure their accommodation. You must accept your offer of accommodation online before making the advance rent payment. Please log into the accommodation portal in order to do so. If you are having trouble paying online, please email halls@hw.ac.uk. If we don't receive your advance rent payment within 48 hours of you accepting your offer, then your offer will be invalid and may be cancelled.

Please note that by accepting accommodation, you are agreeing to pay the required rent either in full or in instalments as detailed in the contract. Not paying your rent is a breach of the terms and conditions. 

Once you have enrolled you can download the MyHWU app. Here you can find guidance about your student finance account and log enquiries via the AskHWU tile. 

Payment options

Once you have arrived and are fully enrolled, you can pay any outstanding balance of your accommodation fees either in full or by monthly instalments (recurring card) in the same way that tuition is paid.  

Please note that only your Advance Rent Payment is payable through the accommodation portal, further payments are made through the online payment service.

Paying in full

Please sign in to our online payments service if you wish to settle your outstanding balance after your arrival on campus. 

15 Week contract - Students staying in accommodation for semester 1 only are required to pay in full. 

Paying by monthly instalments (recurring card)

Instalment amount

The instalment value is the total accommodation contract value minus your advance rent payment, divided by the remaining number of instalments. You can set up your recurring card plans via the MyHWU app.

For more information about how to pay your accommodation and instalments please visit our online payments pages.

For information on budgeting please visit our managing your money pages. 

Parent/other third party payer

If you have a parent/other third party payer who wishes to pay by recurring card on your behalf this requires specific permission by yourself for them to see and pay your account.

The below instructions should be followed:-

Log on to the online payment site

To add a parent or other third party payer enter the parent/other parties' email address and create a password that meets University guidelines. You must also select what type of transactions you want that payer to see which include tuition or accommodation. Once you have entered this, select the Add button.

They will then appear under the Current Authorised Parent/Third Party Accounts.

The system will then send access details to the parent/third party by email. They will be able to log into the online payment system through the parent/third party option, using your HWU Person ID, their own email address and password.

You can log in and change the access at any time for that parent/third party, as well as being able to reset the password by selecting the remove button.