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.
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.
Exchange & Go Global: Single semester (15 or 22 week contract)
Students staying in accommodation for only one semester (semester 1 or semester 2) are required to pay in full after arrival.
Paying by monthly instalments (recurring card)
Undergraduates (40 week contract)
Your advance rent payment will be used to pay your first four weeks rent. Your first instalment will be taken on the 25 October. This will be followed by seven instalments on the 15th of each month in, November, December, January, February, March, April, and May.
Postgraduates (50 week contract)
Your advance rent payment will be used to pay your first four weeks rent. Your first instalment will be taken on the 25 October. This will be followed by nine further instalments payable on the 15th of each month in, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June and July.
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.
Key information
On-campus Accommodation Office (Edinburgh Campus)
- Job title
- Opening Hours: 10:00 - 16:00
- Phone
- In person appointments: MyHWU
- halls@hw.ac.uk
Disability Service
- disability@hw.ac.uk