Book Vouchers

The Business Office issues all Book Vouchers.

How to Request a Voucher:

• Email the Business Office at businessoffice@nichols.edu or call the Business Office at 508-213-2288.
  • If using email, please be sure to include your name, student ID number, and and requested voucher amount.
• After requesting the voucher, you may go to the bookstore to request your books or you may order your books online.
  • In person at the bookstore: 
    • Please tell the bookstore cashier that you will be paying with a voucher.
    • Please have your ID card ready. the ID card will be swiped through the cash register as the means of payment.
  • Online Order:
    • Goto the Bookstore webpage. 
    • Select financial aid as the means of payment.
    • You may choose to have the books held at the bookstore for you or may choose to have the books shipped to you (additional shipping charges will apply.)

Book Voucher Terms:

• Will be issued only for the amount of credit or estimated credit (due to pending financial aid) showing on the student account.
• Are normally limited to $700  a semester
• Will NOT be issued for credit balances due to TMS, Tuition Management Systems, anticipated payments.
• May only be used at the college bookstore which is operated by Barnes & Noble.
• May only be used to purchase books and supplies. Food, clothing, etc. can not be purchased on a voucher.

Note: The book voucher system is not a system that allows student's to charge books to their student account and then pay for them at a later date. It only allows students to access the "extra" financial aid credit that is on the student account.

How Book Vouchers are Processed:

• Student requests a voucher.
• Business Office enters the voucher amount electronically onto the Student ID card.
• Business Office places a charge on the student account for the amount of the voucher.
• Student makes purchases at the bookstore.
• Approximately 30 to 45 days after the beginning of the term and then periodically throughout the term, the vouchers are "closed out."
  • This means that the Business Office is electronically transferred the amount of total purchases made at the bookstore.
  • Any balance remaining on the voucher is credited to the student account.
  • Example: A student is issued a $500 book voucher and is charged $500 on the student account. The student then makes purchases totaling $300 at the bookstore. When the voucher is closed the $200 difference will be credited back to the student account.