Cumbria Card

All students will be issued with a card when they register with the University. Your card will be provided to you either through the accommodation office or your lecturer. If you have not received your card within a few days of starting lectures on site then please contact the library at your site.

All cards will be registered within 24-28 hours of printing. You do not need to register the card yourself. Students taking a pre-paid catering plan will have their pre-payment added to their catering balance in advance and the balance of the package will be added when the invoice is raised. If you are not a resident student, you can use your card to identify yourself as a student to receive VAT free purchases in the catering outlets or for cashless purchasing if you load credit to your card 

Of course. You or a family member will be able to top up your account at any time via an online account.

Whilst the initial pre-paid catering money is non-refundable and must be spent during your first two academic years at the University any additional credits above the initial prepaid amount will remain on the card for as long as you are a student at the University.

Top-up my card

You will be able to check your balance for the catering purse online at any time or at a till whenever you use your card.

No, your card is free when first issued to you. However, there is a replacement fee of up to £10 to replace a lost card.

Your Cumbria Card is your ID card while you are at university. It has your photograph on it and your unique student number. This will be checked at the till during each use. You must produce your ID card if requested to do so by a member of university staff.

You must report the loss to the Library who will contact catering to block your account to prevent unauthorised usage.

As long as your card is activated, when you show the card at a catering outlet you will receive purchases free of VAT. You then just pay for your food with cash or card at the reduced amount.

If you have chosen to live in a catered hall, a proportion of the total fee is allocated to a prepaid meal plan purse on your Cumbria card. Funds will be credited to your account on registration, in October and the final balance will appear in December.

Funds will be credited to your Cumbria Card account electronically; then simply use the card as your payment at the till in any of the catering outlets on the Lancaster, Ambleside, or Carlisle campuses. The card cannot be used to purchase alcohol.

If you are on the Pre-Paid Catering Plan, the money will be credited to your Cumbria Card account electronically at pre-determined intervals. The card cannot be used to purchase alcohol. Postgraduate students will receive the full £200 allowance at registration.

You will be able to check your balance for the catering purse online at any time or at a till whenever you use your card.

You will be able to check your balance online at any time or at a till whenever you use your card.

For the first time only - you will need to ‘associate’ your card with your computer account details.

• At your nearest printer/copier machine, place your card close to the card reader until it beeps.
• Register with your username and password

You will only have to do this once. The next time you use the printer, you will only need to present your card to the reader and it will recognise you.

You can use any printer/copier with a Cumbria Card.

Go to payments.cumbria.ac.uk/print/ and top up your account with a debit or credit card. The minimum top-up amount is £5.

You can see your balance when you are logged in to a printer/copier, or by hovering over the £ sign when you are logged on to a university computer.

You can see your balance when you are logged in to a printer/copier, or by hovering over the £ sign when you are logged on to a university computer.

You will be able to apply for a refund of the balance on your printing account at the end of your course. Please email your completed refund application form to print.unit@cumbria.ac.uk

Print Credit Refund Application Form

Money cannot be transferred between your PrintCopy purse and the Catering purse.