Utiliser votre Carte uOttawa

Using your card

In addition to being used as your student identification, your uOttawa card can be used for quick and convenient payment at over a hundred locations on campus. Simply present your uOttawa card at any of the locations below. New locations are being added regularly, so keep checking the uOttawa card website for updates. Your uOttawa card cannot be used to purchase alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, prepaid gift cards or for cash back.

Where you can use your uOttawa card

Food Services

The uOttawa card is accepted at the following locations. Consult the campus map for the location of all Food Services facilities on campus.

Petit Café

Arts - 70 Laurier Ave

Café +

Tabaret - 550 Cumberland

L'Alibi

Fauteux - 57 Louis-Pasteur

Escalupe

Roger Guindon Hall - 451 Smyth

Le Snack

Marion - 140 Louis-Pasteur

Rez Café

Residential Complex - 90 University

Café Écolo

Lamoureux - 145 Jean-Jacques Lussier

Second Cup

Morisset - 85 University

Starbucks

Desmarais - 55 Laurier East

Première Moisson

Faculty of Social Sciences - 120 University

Tim Hortons

Jock-Turcot University Centre - 85 University

Bento Sushi

Jock-Turcot University Centre - 85 University

Quiznos

Jock-Turcot University Centre - 85 University

Food Court

Jock-Turcot University Centre - 85 University

Jazzy

Jock-Turcot University Centre - 85 University

Café Lees

Lees Campus - 200 Lees

 

Printers and photocopiers

You can use your uOttawa card at any of these printing and photocopying locations.

Note: You are charged for full number of pages you print, so be sure to check your work carefully before you print it.

Bookstore

You can use your uOttawa card for University Bookstore purchases. As an added bonus, during peak periods of September and January, students who use their uOttawa card will have access to an express payment lane.

docUcentre

Flex funds on your uOttawa card can be used to make any type of purchase at the docUcentre. Your uOttawa card is accepted at the University Centre, room 0024, MacDonald Hall room 004 and at Roger-Guindon Hall, room 2010. If you need to print an essay, buy a course pack or have speciality prints created, you can use your uOttawa card to pay for your purchase.

As an added bonus, during peak periods of September and January, students who use their uOttawa card will have access to an express payment lane (University centre location only).

Pivik, 1848 & Café Alt - SFUO

Your uOttawa card is now accepted at three student-run businesses on campus. Both meal plans and flex funds can now be used at the Pivik1848 and Café Alt

Buying with your meal plan: 
Meal plans are meant to be used for purchasing meals that have been prepared on campus. Any pre-packaged ready-to-eat food product, such as chips or TV dinners can be combined with a meal plan as long as it’s combined with one food product that has been prepared/made on campus. Please note that when combining a pre-packaged food item, the taxes on that item will be charged and the combined total will be deducted from your meal plan account. Any product purchased that is not edible must be purchased from your flex account. 

Buying with your flex funds: 
All items except those in the excluded products below can be purchased with your flex funds. 

Excluded products 
The following items cannot be purchased with your uOttawa card: 

- Alcohol products; 
-Tobacco products; 
- Lottery products; 
- Gift or pre-paid cards;
- Cash back.

Community Life Service

You can use your uOttawa card to purchase event tickets, reserve space on campus or pay poster fees at Community Life Service. Basically, you can pay for anything you can purchase at the Community Life Service with your uOttawa card. As an added bonus, you can buy advance tickets to many popular events if you pay with a uOttawa card.

Draft Pub

You can use your uOttawa card at the Draft Pub for most purchases. Both Meal plans and Flex dollars are accepted.
Note : You can't purchase alcohol with your uOttawa card.

Bac à frites

Your uOttawa card can be used at the Bac à frites (chip stand) located at the entrance of lot K (near Simard Hall). Both Meal plans and Flex dollars are accepted.

Café Nostalgica - GSAÉD

Your uOttawa card is now accepted at the Café Nostalgica, both meal plans and flex dollars are accepted.
Note : You can't purchase alcohol with your uOttawa card.

Relish (food truck)

Your uOttawa card can be used at Relish, a bright blue mobile food truck located at the corner of Louis Pasteur and University (near the Leblanc Residence). Both meal plans and flex dollars are accepted.

Stone Soup Foodworks (food truck)

Your uOttawa card can be used at Stone Soup Foodworks, a bright neon green mobile food truck located on Jean-Jacques Lussier near the Campus Transitway Station. Both meal plans and flex dollars are accepted.

Vending machine

Vending machines at the locations listed below accept the uOttawa card. Just tap your uOttawa card on the reader as indicated on the vending machines, and select your product.
Locations of vending machines that accept your uOttawa card:

  • 90 University -1st floor
  • Marchand Residence - 1st floor
  • Thompson Residence - 1st floor
  • Morisset Hall - second floor

Student Academic Success Service (SASS)

When using the Services at SASS, students are required to use their uOttawa card to register when they arrive.

Library

You can pay library late fees at Morisset, Fauteux and Roger Guindon with your uOttawa card. Additionally, your uOttawa card is your official library card and you can use it at affiliated libraries (Saint-Paul University and Carleton University, etc.).

Access after hours
You will need your uOttawa card to gain access to the Morisset Library after hours. To gain access, gently tap your uOttawa card to the reader and the gate will open.  Note:  if you have outstanding fees at the library you will not be able to gain access until all fees are paid in full.

Science Store

Your uOttawa card flex dollars are the only payment method that can be used for purchases at the Marion third floor lab Science Store.

Sports Services

Your uOttawa card is your official access card for all Sport Services facilities at the University.

Exam rooms and halls

You MUST have with you your uOttawa card during mid-term and final exams. Your uOttawa card is your official University of Ottawa identification card.

Where you can use your Discover uOttawa card (visitors)

Your Discover uOttawa card can be used for quick and convenient payment at over a hundred locations on campus. Simply present it at any of the locations below. New locations are being added regularly, so keep checking this webpage for updates.

Food Services

The Discover uOttawa card is accepted at the following locations. Consult the campus map for the location of all Food Services facilities on campus.

Petit Café

Arts - 70 Laurier Ave

Café +

Tabaret - 550 Cumberland

L'Alibi

Fauteux - 57 Louis-Pasteur

Escalupe

Roger Guindon Hall - 451 Smyth Road

Le Snack

Marion - 140 Louis-Pasteur

Rez Café

Residential Complex - 90 University

Café Écolo

Lamoureux - 145 Jean-Jacques Lussier

Second Cup

Morisset - 85 University

Starbucks

Desmarais - 55 Laurier East

Première Moisson

Faculty of Social Sciences - 120 University

Tim Hortons

Jock-Turcot University Centre - 85 University

Bento Sushi

Jock-Turcot University Centre - 85 University

Quiznos

Jock-Turcot University Centre - 85 University

Food Court

Jock-Turcot University Centre - 85 University

Jazzy

Jock-Turcot University Centre - 85 University

Café Lees

Lees Campus - 200 Lees

 

Printers and photocopiers

You can use your Discover uOttawa card at any of these printing and photocopying locations

Note: You are charged for full number of pages you print, so be sure to check your work carefully before you print it.

Bookstore

You can use your Discover uOttawa card for University Bookstore purchases.

As an added bonus, during peak periods of September and January, clients who use their Discover uOttawa card will have access to an express payment lane.

docUcentre

Your Discover uOttawa card can be used to make any type of purchase at the docUcentre located in the University Centre, room 0024, MacDonald Hall room 004 and at Roger Guindon Hall, room 2010. If you need to print an essay, buy a course pack or have speciality prints created, you can use your Discover uOttawa card to pay for your purchase.

As an added bonus, during peak periods of September and January, clients who use their Discover uOttawa card will have access to an express payment lane (University centre location only).

Pivik, 1848 & Café - SFUO

Your Discover uOttawa card is now accepted at three student-run businesses on campus. Flex funds can now be used at the Pivik1848 and Café Alt

Excluded products 
The following items cannot be purchased with your Discover uOttawa card: 

- Alcohol products; 
- Tobacco products; 
- Lottery products; 
- Gift or pre-paid cards;
- Cash back. 


Café Nostalgica - GSAÉD

Your Discover uOttawa card is now accepted at the Café Nostalgica.
Note : You can't purchase alcohol with your Discover uOttawa card.

Relish (food truck)

Your Discover uOttawa card can be used at Relish, a bright blue mobile food truck located at the corner of Louis Pasteur and University (near the Leblanc Residence). Both meal plans and flex dollars are accepted.

Stone Soup Foodworks (food truck)

Your Discover uOttawa card can be used at Stone Soup Foodworks, a bright neon green mobile food truck located on Jean-Jacques Lussier near the Campus Transitway Station. Both meal plans and flex dollars are accepted.

Community Life Service

You can use your Discover uOttawa card to purchase event tickets, reserve space on campus or pay poster fees at Community Life Service. Basically, you can pay for anything you can purchase at the Community Life Service with your Discover uOttawa card. As an added bonus, you can buy advance tickets to many popular events if you pay with a Discover uOttawa card.

Draft Pub

You can use your Discover uOttawa card at the Draft Pub for most purchases. 

Note : You can't purchase alcohol with your Discover uOttawa card.

Bac à frites

Your Discover uOttawa card can be used at the Bac à frites (chip stand) located at the entrance of lot K (near Simard Hall).

Vending machine

Vending machines at the locations listed below accept the Discover uOttawa card. Just tap your Discover uOttawa card on the reader as indicated on the vending machines, and select your product.
Locations of vending machines that accept your uOttawa card:

  • 90 University - 1st floor
  • Marchand Residence - 1st floor
  • Thompson Residence - 1st floor
  • Morisset Hall - second floor

Library

You can pay library late fees at Morisset, Fauteux and Roger Guindon with your Discover uOttawa card. 

Science Store

Your Discover uOttawa card flex dollars are the only payment method that can be used for purchases at the Marion third floor lab Science Store.