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Thursday, July 19, 2018

System Student Finance Council (SSFC) updates (July 2018)

Nelnet Release 2018.1 delayed
Nelnet had a new release ready to deploy in June and the SSFC group wanted to get this in production prior to the busy fall activity for payments. However, the early adopter schools testing the release have encountered issues (based on past experience we chose not accept an early adopter role). The go-live date is now delayed and we will be working on a new plan for later in the fall once Nelnet can provide a more stable test environment updated with the new release. Upgrade changes include:

  • Regulatory changes related to credit cards 
  • Changes for payment reports 
  • Added usability such as, more pages used by institutional users have been made responsive (meaning they should react to the device being used to view them.)
  • Bug fixes - in particular there are two that relate to payment report bugs that are now said to be corrected

Update on credit card payments and Nelnet
We are still awaiting the returned “redlined” version of the terms and conditions from Nelnet. There is no indication that the current stop-gap measure Nelnet employed will be retired so credit cards still remain a viable option for paying tuition and fees. We remain optimistic that this issue will get resolved prior to the start of fall term.

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