EZ Link

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EZ Link

• Provided to you by EAC

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EZ Link is a school management tool that is

• web based
• an open system
• CommonLine compliant
• free of charge

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The FAA home page can be accessed by clicking on
Financial Aid Administrator located at the top of
the EAC home page.
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The left side of the FAA home page allows for
navigation through EZ Link. The middle section
is reserved for New News where you can find
articles on whats new with EZ Link as well as
the student loan industry. On the right side you
will find information and links on items related
to the student loan industry and EAC. Log on by
clicking Log On located on the left navigation
bar.
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A customizable school page allows for a schools
preferred processing methods.
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Creating a Lender Exception allows schools to
make exceptions to their preferred processing
flows.
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An Event Notification allows individual users to
set up a notification to inform them whenever a
CommonLine file is received in EZ Link.
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Specific school users can be designated to

• Customize a users user access
• Control a users level of access

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• Applications can be added for Stafford, PLUS,
  Alternative, and Alternative PLUS loans.
• Required fields are noted with an asterisk ().
• Supplemental Tab provides additional
  certification fields such as Co-Signer and
  reference.
• Apply Template applies specific information that
  you create and customize.
• Copy ISIR and Certified Loan pulls up demographic
  information from uploaded ISIR files or
  previously certified loans.

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• Save as Incomplete allows you to save an
  incomplete application and finish it at a later
  date.
• Mark for Print MPN allows you to go back to these
  specific loans to print a MPN at a later date.
• Save will save the loan information without
  transmitting.
• Transmit Next Batch saves the loan and transmits
  in a batch transmit at a later time.
• Transmit Now transmits the loan immediately.
• Reset cancels any information that has been
  entered and resets the screen to a blank screen.

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The Select Borrower Criteria option allows users
to search for a borrower or list of borrowers
using any combination of provided fields.
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The results from the Select Borrower Criteria
option appear on the Borrower Meeting
Selection Criteria page. From this
page you are able to

• print MPNs
• transmit loans
• delete applications.

• view a borrowers loan or history
• make changes to a borrowers loan

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The Borrower Account Summary is broken into the
following sections

• Borrower Information
• Current Principal Balances
• Loans by Stages

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Many codes have fly over capabilities

• Loan Type
• Loan Status
• Guarantor Code

• Lender Code
• School Code

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The following loan changes can be made on the
Borrower Loan Detail

• Borrower demographic information
• Loan Period
• Grade Level
• Anticipated Graduation Date
• Disbursement and Disbursement Date Changes
• cont.

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The following loan changes can be made on the
Borrower Loan Detail

• Hold/Release Disbursements
• Pre Disbursement Cancels
• Post Disbursement Cancels, Refunds and Reissues
• Loan Increases
• Reinstatements
• Reallocations

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Hold/Release Disbursements allows schools to hold
or release individual or groups of disbursements.
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Upload CommonLine or ISIR Files allows users to
customize the import of files into EZ Link
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Download CommonLine Files allows user to export
CommonLine files out of EZ Link
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EZ Link offers a wide variety of standard,
customized, and archived reports. EAC/EASCI
Reports include

• Print Student Loan Summary This report provides
  a summary of a borrowers loans.
• EASCI Disbursement Report This report provides
  disbursement information for loans serviced by
  EASCI.
• EAC/EASCI Archived Report An Archived report is
  a specific, daily, weekly, or monthly
  predetermined EAC/EASCI report available for
  schools or lenders.
• EZ Link Customized Report A report the school
  can create and customize to meet their needs
  based on a set of criteria that describes a
  particular group of loan records from all records
  in the database.

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EZ Link Reports use loan data that has been
transmitted through EZ Link or uploaded into the
system.

• Application Status Report Reports the status of
  any loans that meet the selection criteria
  entered.
• Disbursement Roster Report A report that lists
  borrowers and loan amounts being disbursed on a
  specific date. This is based on EZ Link data and
  will include all guarantors.
• Disbursements Report Allows user to view any
  and all past, pending, or future disbursements
  based on EZ Link data.
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  cont.

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EZ Link Reports use loan data that has been
transmitted through EZ Link or uploaded into the
system.

• Disbursements by Roster Report Allows you to
  view any and all disbursement rosters that have
  been loaded into EZ Link by individual CommonLine
  disbursement roster.
• Disbursements Summary Report A report based on
  EZ Link data that allows the user to see which
  disbursing agent funds are coming from. This
  report can only be run after a Disbursement
  Roster has been received. The report can be run
  on a specific date or based on historical data.
• Loan Status Report Allows users to view loans
  by the status they are currently in based on EZ
  Link data.