Every student has a OneCard account set up on their card as soon as they receive it. Once you've deposited funds into your OneCard account, you can use it for pay for purchases all over campus:
- Bookstore and Textbook Center: Pay for your course materials and purchase Bowdoin apparel
- Dining: Accepted at all cash operations and dining halls on campus
- Laundry: OneCard is the only way to pay, accepted at all campus laundry facilities
- Printing and Copying: Supplement your free printing allocation with OneCard funds
- Vending machines: Select beverage and snack machines on campus accept OneCard
- Smith Union Info Desk: Purchase tickets and pay activities fees
- Senior class gift
Bowdoin OneCard Account balances roll over semester to semester, year to year. Any remaining balance when a student graduates is credited back to the student bill (or refunded if there is no outstanding bill).
Students can check their OneCard account balance and view recent transaction history at any time by using the Online account viewer, available on the OneCard website.
Depositing Funds to Your Bowdoin OneCard Account
Students can add funds to their Bowdoin OneCard Accounts online using the Deposit funds to OneCard link on the OneCard website. Online deposits can be made via eCheck or Credit Card (Visa, MasterCard, and American Express).
Students may create an Authorised Payer account for parents to make deposits online. Authorized Payers should click on the Deposit funds to OneCard link, and from that page click the Authorized Payer link on the left-hand side of the page. Instructions for students and authorized payers are available for viewing and download by following the links on the right.
Individuals may also go in as a "Guest Payer" to make a payment without a login ID and password. Guest Payers should click on the Deposit funds to OneCard link, and from that page click the Guest Payer link on the left-hand side of the page. To make a deposit as a guest, you will need to know the student's First Name, Last Name, and Bowdoin ID number.
Cash can be deposited at any of the three automated cash deposit machines (CSVTs) on campus: Coles Tower, Hatch Science Library, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. The CSVTs accept American twenty, ten, five and one dollar bills. Students with larger bills can bring them to the OneCard office during business hours to have them deposited onto the card. The OneCard office can take deposits via check. Checks can be dropped off in person or mailed to Bowdoin College, OneCard Office, 6075 College Station, Brunswick ME 04011-8451. Please specify the student's name and ID number on all mailed checks so that we credit the correct OneCard account.
Students or other individuals who would like to deposit to a student's OneCard Account may also call the OneCard Office at (207) 721-5199 to make a payment over the phone using a U.S. check or savings account, or credit card (Visa, American Exress, or MasterCard).
