Billing Information

Scenario 2 – The school is billed for a portion of the program fees, and the student is billed for the remainder

Many of our partner institutions will cover the Comprehensive Tuition fee for academic year programs but request the student be invoiced directly for the Comprehensive Housing Fee and/or the Summer Program Fees. If you received an invoice for one or both of these fees, then it is most likely a result of the billing arrangement with your school. If you still have questions, please contact your school’s international programs office or SiPN’s Billing Coordinator at +351 21-393-5800 or via e-mail payments@studyinportugalnetwork.com

The two most common arrangements are:

1. Only tuition is billed through your school, and all other fees are billed to you directly; 
2. The students will pay SiPN the Program Deposit fee, but all other fees are billed through your school. These two scenarios are the most common, however, there are a number of different “split bill” configurations.

Waiting on Financial Aid?

If you are unable to pay your fees by the payment due date listed on your bill because you are waiting on financial aid from your home school, we will wait until those funds are disbursed. However, you MUST complete a SiPN Financial Aid Deferral Form (insert link here). You may submit the deferral request at any time, but it should be received at SiPN no later than the payment due date listed on your bill. This form does require certification from your home school financial aid office, so please be sure to allow enough time for them to complete their portion of the form. The form can then be scanned and sent to us by email at payments@studyinportugalnetwork.com  or faxed to 001 +351 21 392-8772

If you receive a bill and believe that your school should be paying the fee, please contact your school’s study abroad office to verify their billing arrangements for your program. If they tell you that they should be receiving the bill, please have them contact SiPN Billing/Payments Coordinator at payments@studyinportugalnetwork.com, in order to clarify the situation—this contact/explanation must come directly from your school in order for any changes to be made, and you will be held responsible for any fees for which you are billed directly unless your school notifies SiPN otherwise. SiPN is willing to sign consortium or partnership agreements to facilitate whatever billing arrangements your school requires.

Scenario 3 – The school is billed by SiPN for all program fees

In this instance, you will be billed for all fees related to your program by your home school because SiPN has a pre-arranged billing agreement with them. In this case, you will not receive a bill for program fees from SiPN.

If you receive a bill and believe that your school should be paying the fee, please contact your school’s study abroad office to verify their billing arrangements for your program. If they tell you that they should be receiving the bill, please have them contact SiPN´s Payments Coordinator at payments@studyinportugalnetwork.com, in order to clarify the situation—this contact/explanation must come directly from your school in order for any changes to be made, and you will be held responsible for any fees for which you are billed directly unless your school notifies SiPN otherwise. SiPN is willing to sign consortium or partnership agreements to facilitate whatever billing arrangements your school requires.