<p>Bonus bucks are extra money they “give” you based on meal plan and your year. Can be used if you go over your meal allotment or for extras. For freshmen, it’s $20. Plus with her plan she has $100 extra dollars to use as she wants. I thinks this is also counted as bonus bucks and does not carry over to new semester.</p>
<p>Be sure you go to dining page read up on how bonus bucks are used. For instance, if you want a snack in the afternoon in the dinner time frame and go get some chips and drink, if you don’t tell them any different, it will be a meal swipe and you really haven’t gotten the max for your money. You can tell them for stuff like that to use the bonus bucks or Carolina cash. You want to use bonus bucks up first since if you don’t use it during the semester it just goes away. Money put on Carolina card carries over.</p>
<p>Also note that the new week starts on Friday am…and you lose whatever you haven’t used that prior week in terms of swipes.</p>
<p>Not sure why she wasn’t able to use her meal swipe for purchase. Tell her to be sure and ask next time…maybe they just assumed it wasn’t intended as her “supper” or had something to do with it being the first weekend. You can always call. At the end of the semester they give students a way to use up bonus or flex money buy letting them buy cases of water, snacks etc. We did that and they took it off Carolina card instead. Hubby had to call and get them to change it so they can make mistakes!</p>