What is ePayment?
A simple and secure web interface for University of Hawaii (UH) employees to easily input and keep their bank information
up-to-date. The end goal is to reimburse employees for various Âé¶¹´«Ã½expenses (such as travel) electronically via
direct deposit instead of by paper check.
The overall benefits:
- Employees will receive payments faster and will save a trip to the bank to deposit checks.
- Will reduce manual work involved with check printing, pick up, and distribution.
- Cost savings for the University with electronic processing and not having to mail checks to off-campus locations.
How does ePayment work?
- Employee logs in with Âé¶¹´«Ã½username/password.
- Upon first login, employee must set up their secret question & answer sets for an additional layer of security (more info on security and multi-level authentication). This is similar to what banking institutions and credit card companies implement to safeguard account information.
- Upon subsequent login, employee must correctly answer one of their secret questions.
- Employee enters bank account and routing number (see process flowchart).
- Bank information is fed to Bank of Hawaii for pre-noting (validation of account and routing number) which takes up to 3 business days to complete.
- If account is valid, i.e. doesn't reject within the 3 business days, employee's bank information is fed to KFS (Âé¶¹´«Ã½financial system) and stored on their vendor record. A vendor record is required for anyone to receive payment from UH/KFS. Subsequently, any payments that are processed for this employee is automatically deposited in the employee's bank account. The whole process will take up to 5 business days.
- If account is invalid, i.e. doesn't pass the pre-note process, the employee is notified of the error and must update their information.
Who should sign up?
Employees in Peoplesoft who normally receive payment in the form of a paper check from the Âé¶¹´«Ã½Disbursing Office for travel, mileage, stipends, etc. If you are uncertain whether these payments apply to you, please check with your department's fiscal office.ePayment DOES NOT apply to the following:
- Direct deposit for payroll. Go to for instructions on enrolling in the Hawaii Information Portal, the State's new modern payroll system.
- Âé¶¹´«Ã½students because a separate eRefund service is available through the MyÂé¶¹´«Ã½portal for students to enter their bank information online for direct deposit of refunds for tuition/scholarships.
- Any payments processed directly through RCUH, including RCÂé¶¹´«Ã½funded travel since they have their own financial system, separate from KFS. See these to sign up for direct deposit in RCUH's ePayment system.
- Any employee who intends to transfer all monies received from Âé¶¹´«Ã½to a foreign banking institution, per new NACHA guidelines effective 9/18/2009.
- Student fellowship stipends. After a vendor record is set up in KFS, these payments can be direct-deposited by submitting the .
Login page inaccessible?
• as one of the required components may be down.
• The site is down daily between 2:00 - 5:00am for database backups.
• Other downtimes:
Need Help? Contact:
uh-epayment@lists.hawaii.edu
