Follow the instructions below to take and submit your photo that will be used as your photo ID and printed on your PointCard. ​To prevent your uploaded photo from being rejected as unusable, make sure to carefully follow the criteria below for taking your photo.

​How to Take Your PointCard Photo

Important Criteria For Taking Your PointCard Photo

• THIS IS A LEGAL ID, PLEASE BE SERIOUS
• Choose a solid, light color like a white wall as a background for your photo.
• Take the photo of just you. DO NOT include friends, pets, etc. 
• REMOVE hats, sunglasses, headphones and other accessories. Head coverings are allowed only if worn daily for religious purposes. 
• Directly face the camera and take a centered head shot from the shoulders up. 
• Check your photo to make sure that your full face is visible. 
• Crop and size your photo to display a clear, front head shot.
• DO NOT use camera filters.

​​​​​Your photo should look like the Accepted photo below:

CHECK YOUR PHOTO BEFORE UPLOADING! If your photo does not follow these criteria it will be rejected. You must then retake and resubmit your photo​.

1. Down​lo​ad the Transact eAccounts app from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
2. ​​​Open the app.
3. Press next until it says Get Started.
4. From the list of locations select "University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point".​
5. ​​Sign in with your UWSP user name and password.

Take and Upload Your PointCard Photo Using the eAccounts App

After you have installed and signed into the eAccounts app:

1. At the top-right corner of the app tap the Gear.
2. Tap Submit ID Photo.
3. Tap Get Started.
4. Select Tap to upload your photo.
5. Allow Camera if needed.
6. Take your photo following the above criteria for taking your photo.
7. Select Use Photo.
8. If the photo is perfectly matching requirements it should be approved, however if it is not meeting requirements, it will be sent to the service desk for approval

You will receive an email from the Point Card Office within one business day letting you know whether your photo was approved for use as your Point Card photo or not approved and to resubmit following the criteria for taking your photo. Watch this email!