E-PAYMENT OPTIONS

Online Payments Are Now Required For Almost All Fees

For brand new applications, duplicates, and name changes:

1. You may use credit cards only – no checks of any kind or money orders will be accepted.
2. As before, continue to mail in a copy of your application / payment confirmation page with your transcripts and oath when you complete your online application. The confirmation page will attest to your payment.

Limited exceptions for which we will accept checks:

1. Emergency certificates and emergency certificate renewals – applications and payments are handled through county offices.
2. Renewals of provisional certificates. – applications and payments are handled through county offices.
3. Non-citizen certificates and renewals – paper applications are available through county offices.
4. Other certificates/endorsements that do not yet appear in the Online Application, including some endorsements in career and technical education, family and consumer science, driver’s education, etc. For these transactions you will have to use a paper application and pay by check for now. Paper applications are available through your county office.

“Pay Balance Owed” option: For all other payments, use this new function, which appears in the left column menu of the online application. Instructions are here.

“No Payment Needed” option: This option is intended for persons who applied on or after January 1, 2004 for their initial instructional or administrator certificates and who must now apply for their standard certificates. These applicants already paid for their standard certificates when they made their initial applications and so do not need to pay again now. After using the ‘No Payment Needed’ option to successfully apply for their standard certificates, most of these applicants will still have to pay training program completion fees using the ‘Pay Balance Owed’ function. Instructions are here.

Further Explanation of the “Pay Balance Owed” Option.

Use this option to pay for:

1. Completed applications for which you still owe a full or partial fee.
2. Additional fees for a previous application. For example, use this payment option if a previous certificate application was denied and you have now satisfied the application deficiency and need to make a partial payment.
3. A provisional teacher program / alternate route completion fee of $100. Pay only after you have created an application for your standard certificate through the “No Payment Needed” option.
4. An administrator training program completion fee of $200 – Pay only after you have created an application for your standard certificate through the “No Payment Needed” option.
5. A standard instructional certificate only if you paid for your certificate of eligibility or certificate of eligibility with advanced standing prior to January 1, 2004.

DO NOT use the Pay Balance option to pay for:

1. Substitute credentials.
2. A non-citizen standard certificate or renewal.
3. Brand new applications that have not yet been completed in the Online Application.
4. Other certificates/endorsements that do not yet appear in the Online Application, including some endorsements in career and technical education, family and consumer science, etc. For these transactions you will have to use a paper application and a check for now.