Vaquero Bucks
Vaquero Bucks, also known as VBucks, is a prepaid expense plan in which your V OneCard can be used for purchases at retail locations throughout campus. Like Dining Dollars, they can be used to purchase meals. Unlike Dining Dollars, they can be used for retail goods and services on campus.
When you make a minimum deposit of $20 via the GET Portal, your V OneCard becomes your VBucks card as well. Your daily deposit limit cannot exceed $500. VBucks may not be used to purchase gift cards.
Simple
When you buy VBucks, they are credited to your V OneCard. Making a purchase is easy, too—just swipe your V OneCard at the register to pay.
Convenient
There’s no need to carry cash. Just use your V OneCard at any campus register that accepts VBucks. See below for participating retail locations.
Refundable
Regular VBucks are refundable, never expire, and automatically roll over from year to year as long as you’re a student or an employee of the University. For a VBucks refund, complete the VBucks Refund Request Form.
GET VBucks
- Students may add funds to their V OneCard using credit card or by billing their student account via Bill Me through the GET Portal. (If you elect Bill Me, payment to your student online bill will be due within 30 days of your request. Outstanding balances may result in suspesion of your VBucks, and/or a hold on your student account. You may log on to ASSIST or visit the Bursars Office to make payment.)
- Parents, family and friends can deposit funds into a student's account through the GET Portal Guest Login.
- Full-Time Faculty and Staff may add funds to their V OneCard using credit card through the GET Portal.
For more information about loading VBucks on your V OneCard, email us at cardservices@utrgv.edu or call our offices at (956) 665-7276. You can also stop by our office during regular service hours located on the Edinburg campus, ESTUN 2.310.
Add Financial Aid VBucks
Do you receive Financial Aid? Don’t wait for your funds, use them when you need them. Financial Aid students can transfer funds to their Vaquero OneCard and make purchases wherever VBucks are accepted. To transfer your funds go to ASSIST and click on the My Finances icon and then on the “Vaquero OneCard - Transfer Funds” link. Your funds will be ready to use immediately!
VBucks can be used at the following locations throughout the Brownsville and Edinburg campuses.
Brownsville
- Campus Store
- Pizza Hut Express at El Comedor
- La Messa at El Comedor
- Absurd Bird at El Comedor
- Market at University Library
- All Pepsi and Snack Vending Machines
Edinburg Campus
- Campus Store (Library Bookstore)
- Vaquero Dining Hall (Unlimited Dining)
- Student Union Game Room
- Student Union Market
- Student Union Food Court
- Community Corner
- Chick-fil-A
- Tea Co.
- Revolution Noodle
- Pizza Hut Express
- Rio Bravo Cafe
- Vaquero Subs at Market
- Reserva Coffee (School of Medicine TBLC)
- Heritage Coffee (Library)
- Valley Harvest (Science Building)
- Market (Engineering Building)
- All Pepsi and Snack Vending Machines