Accounts Payable
Accounts Payable (AP) processes payments to vendors, faculty, staff and students in a courteous, timely and professional manner. AP provides excellent customer service and ensures compliance with the policies and procedures of the university.
Electronic payments are processed weekly for suppliers, business and travel expense reports, non-qualified scholarship and other payments per the designated day for each CMU location:
- Monday: Australia and Rwanda
- Tuesday: Qatar
- Thursday: U.S.
Frequently Asked Questions
Policies and Guidelines
Form Submissions
PayDocs
PayDocs are payment forms required to be completed and submitted to Accounts Payable to generate a payment without a purchase order (PO) and should be submitted to ap-payform@andrew.cmu.edu.
Supplier Onboarding and Maintenance
Supplemental Supplier Forms should be submitted to ap-supplier-doc@andrew.cmu.edu. Do not submit supplier payments to this address.
New and existing university vendors/suppliers are required to register and
create/maintain a profile in PaymentWorks. See the Vendor/Supplier
Onboarding page for more information.
Invoices
All invoices with a purchase order (PO) number should be submitted to ap-cmu-poinv@andrew.cmu.edu.Expected Processing Times and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
PayDoc Forms and Non-Employee Expense Reports
- Domestic payees: 5 business days
- International payees: Up to 14 business days
Supplier Forms/PaymentWorks Onboarding and Maintenance Platform
3 weeks
Purchase Order Invoice
7 business days
AP Help Inbox
Accounts Payable Location
Mailing Address
Accounts Payable, DMC110
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3815