Payments to Vendors

Payments for goods and services must be processed by Accounts Payable.

An invoice must reference a correct and valid purchase order number. This number must be clearly marked on the invoice, and on all related documentation and correspondence. Invoices without purchase order numbers received in Accounts Payable will be returned to the vendor, without being paid.

Vendors are currently paid by the following methods of payment that are in order by preference.

  1. Commercial Card Payment – in the Banner System, the “check” reference number begins with a “9.”
  2. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) – in the Banner System, the “check” reference number begins with a “!.”
  3. Check – in the Banner System, the “check” reference number begins with a “3.”

All vendor payments to a foreign location must be completed via a wire transfer. Full instructions for processing a wire transfer are housed on the Disbursement Operations website and can be located at Processing Domestic and Foreign Wires.