Benefits
Why should your business should consider accepting Husky Bucks as a form of payment? The benefits and opportunities for merchants that accept Husky Bucks are:
- Husky Bucks is a stored-value account associated with the UConn ID.
- The Husky Bucks account is available to all students, faculty and staff cardholders.
- There are no purchases allowed on credit, funds must be on deposit.
- Husky Bucks Merchant Network includes on-campus at Storrs main campus and all regional campuses, as well as, off-campus merchants near campus locations.
- These merchants serve the 30,000 students and 4,500 employees eligible to participate in UConn’s Husky Bucks Program.
- Students, Faculty and Staff always carry their ID card for:
- Official University ID Card
- Printing/Copying
- Door Access
- Library Card
- UConn Bookstore
- Dining Meal Plan
- Recreation Services
- Athletic Events
- Husky Bucks
- Marketing opportunities – Husky Bucks provides a new outlet for your company’s marketing efforts. Some examples include: UConn websites, email, social media, UConn movie theater, and myUConn app among many others!
- Competitive edge – Husky Bucks may be spent only at participating locations.
- Security – The Husky One Card is used to process sales, which adds a measure of security over non-photo credit/debit card sales.
- Less cash handling – Merchants will recognize a decrease in the amount of cash they handle.
- Automated sales reporting – Husky Bucks offers merchants an electronic daily and weekly sales report, e-mailed the morning after every business day.
Cardholder Marketing
Husky Bucks is marketed to faculty, staff, and students in the following ways:
- One-on-one interactions with first-year students and parents during New Student Orientation sessions held throughout the summer months
- New Employee Orientation
- Advertising in the UConn Daily Digest email newsletter
- Parent newsletter
- One Card website
- Various printed brochures, posters, and other materials
- Promotional events and programs