University Housing and Dining will discontinue Bevo Pay in the 2026-27 school year, according to a residence hall contract renewal email sent on Sept. 22.
The $100 balance included in housing and dining costs semesterly allocated to Bevo Pay, a form of payment connected to students’ UT IDs, will be added to Dine In Dollars. Students will receive $400 worth of Dine In Dollars per semester instead of $300.
Dine In Dollars can be used at UHD-affiliated coffee shops, convenience stores and restaurants, but Bevo Pay can be used at the Co-op, campus printers and other businesses near the University, such as CAVA and In-N-Out. Cailin Rosborough, associate director of marketing communications for University Housing and Dining, said businesses that take Bevo Pay have been informed of the decommission.
Rosborough said UHD no longer felt Bevo Pay was the best way to meet students’ needs as digital payment options became more common.
Bevo Pay “was created at a time when there weren’t debit cards and credit cards as prevalent as they are now, so this just has evolved with the need,” Rosborough said.
Design freshman Lauren Heyde did not see the need for the program because of how similar it was to a debit card.
“I would have to restock it whenever it runs out with my own money,” Heyde said. “I didn’t really see the point of it in the first place, so I never used it.”
However, some students already find the Dine In Dollars amount excessive and struggle to spend all of it in one semester. Heyde said she knew an upperclassman who still had a balance at the end of the semester.
“She had to, for the last couple weeks of school, just strictly eat at places that took Dine In Dollars so she wouldn’t be losing the money,” Heyde said.
Dine In Dollars, unlike Bevo Pay, are not refundable.
“A whole extra $100 a semester is probably not going to help for the majority of students,” said Luke Bayer, a statistics and data science freshman. ”That’s just going to be wasted money.”
Rosborough said University Housing and Dining is open to working on other solutions if needed.
“We absolutely want to serve our students best,” Rosborough said. “So if serving our students best is pivoting or finding other solutions, we are absolutely always open to and exploring that.”
