<p>Just a quick question: when I pay my e-bill and I select my checking account as payment method and account information, the money to pay the registration fees will come out of my cars account... right? I don't want to go to the bank and find out i'm $5k in debt because it took the money out of my checking account.</p>
<p>no, if you select checking account, you are entering an amount to be transferred from your checking account to CARS. e-bill is the bill to pay CARS.</p>
<p>You don’t want to confuse e-bill, which is how you pay some or all of the bill yourself, with the refund of excess financial aid to you. You set up your checking account to have excess money come to you, once financial aid is applied to your balance in CARS. You also set up the checking account to be able to pay your e-bill, to send money to CARS. </p>
<p>CARS will show the amount you owe, the credit from financial aid (when they finally get around to processing it), and any remainder that is your responsibility to pay. If you have a remainder to pay yourself, you use e-bill to send money from your checking account to CARS. You DONT use e-bill to send financial aid to CARS.</p>
<p>so in order to pay the bill, do i just leave the checking and saving account options unselected? basically just enter the amount i want to pay and then hit submit?</p>
<p>ignore that^^, what i really am confused about is how to pay this ebill with the money in my CARS account, thats where my loans are</p>
<p>Gilbasaurus - the money you owe is to CARS and the money from your loans are in CARS. You do nothing. They apply the loans to the amount owed. You don’t do anything. The money is already right in the account that you pay into - you are done unless the loans are less than the payment needed for Aug 15th. </p>
<p>No hitting submit. That is only to add your own money from your own checking/savings account to the total in CARS. </p>
<p>The e-bill does not change to reflect your payment - one of the confusing things in the CARS system which is indeed kind of an IQ test for the minds they admit to Cal. it is as clear as mud. </p>
<p>The quick statement should show that your obligation for the month is down to zero. That usually updates the day after a payment, whether from finaid or sending money through the payment button. The e-bill will remain static. It is a one time snapshot of what they prepare for that month and doesn’t update with payments or other changes.</p>
<p>There are tutorials and explanations here [Billing</a> and Payment Services for Students](<a href=“http://billing.berkeley.edu/StudentServices/StudentServicesIndex.htm]Billing”>http://billing.berkeley.edu/StudentServices/StudentServicesIndex.htm)</p>
<p>Here is the FAQ telling you that you need do nothing to apply finaid to CARS <a href=“http://billing.berkeley.edu/StudentServices/howToInfoStudents.htm#finAidPayCARS[/url]”>http://billing.berkeley.edu/StudentServices/howToInfoStudents.htm#finAidPayCARS</a></p>
<p>ty rider- you rock</p>