The SU is currently transitioning to a new banking system with the needs of student activities as the centre of the launch. The system is called SGF or ‘Finance Requests’. The SU team is working to address all the needs of all our student clubs and societies and is constantly reviewing processes and support materials to help ensure we are addressing the needs of each club and society. For more general information and the reason for the move, please click here.
We still have many things we are continuing to introduce and improve. This area of the website provides you with the latest news and updates.
| Function |
Update |
| Last membership transfer |
Feb 2026
Please product search for your income since April. More information in the FAQ |
| Last payment run made |
Thursday 2/04/26 |
| Next payment run deadline |
Wednesday 4pm 8/04/26 |
| Next payment run scheduled for |
Thursday 9/04/26 |
| Balances last updated |
26/02/26*
*Not including Native income or MSL (membership/product sales).
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Unable to submit or approve payment/money requests?
If you have no option to access the SGF system for your activity at all (head to help to see where to access) in almost every case, you will not have purchased your membership for said activity. Every paid member should be able to create requests - only specific committee members will be able to approve requests.
If you cannot approve requests, you either: are trying to approve a request you created yourself (not possible); you have not been set up with the roles President, Secretary, or Treasurer. For 'Presidents' we can set you up on the site if you contact activities@abdn.ac.uk. All other roles, the president of the club should be able to set you up with the access required by adding you under the role you should have on ausa website (head to admin tools and 'Groups'). Additional roles can be given access but these three should work automatically - in cases where the president is a co-president or called a different name and you access has not been resolved, please reach out to us ASAP.
PAYMENT DEADLINES - Please to ensure that your request is processed, submitted and approved before 4pm on Wednesdays. Payment runs are done Thursday mornings. Try avoid any late-night Wednesday requests in hope of next day payment as staff are not expected to work and approve these late-night requests. They will be processed the following week for payment instead.
Don't know how to use SGF or want to keep in loop with updates?
Head over to SGF page to see some updates on SGF including when the last payments have been completed, when most recent comms for it were shared etc. For FAQs use the help button which will redirect you to some frequently asked questions!
Read through the above and still not sure what to do? Please contact us at activities@abdn.ac.uk or stop in during one of our drop-in sessions at the Student Union building. These take place on Mondays from 330 to 430pm and Thursdays from 11-12 pm.