Heaps! Personal Finance Blog

• Free emergency office space at heaps! HQ February 24, 2011
  Spread the word! We’re offering free emergency office space at our heaps! headquarters for displaced Christchurch small businesses and freelancers. We’re based in a shared office space in Central Wellington and currently have heaps of office space we’re happy to share. We can also supply desks, WiFi, access to scanners and printers… whatever you need […]
• Heaps! cleans up at the prestigious Onya Awards February 23, 2011
  Fantastic news! heaps! cleaned up at the prestigious Onya Awards, held in Wellington on Saturday night. Kiwibank and Social Capital won awards for Most Innovative site and Best Web Application against strong competition from some of New Zealand’s most cutting-edge websites. Head of Online Channels Peter Fletcher-Dobson said “To win both the categories we wer […]
• Starting the year without financial stress February 10, 2011
  Starting the year without financial stress After a fun-filled summer of vacations, festivals, and tonnes of alcohol, it’s time for students to return home – and university calenders to kick off. Looking for ways to stay away from financial stress? Watch your spending during O Week! O Week is the most fun-filled week on most […]
• New and Improved Budgeting February 4, 2011
  Hope you’re all enjoying using heaps! – both Kiwibank and non-Kiwibank customers! In this upgrade, we’ve made some great improvements based on feedback, mostly around making budgeting and categorisation clearer and easier to use. Have a read below to find out what has changed, and then log into heaps! and check it out for yourself! […]
• Romance on a Budget January 25, 2011
  New love is exciting. There is nothing quite like the first few months of a budding relationship – you think about each other constantly, you chat during all hours of the day and night via every available form of communication technology, you go on magical dates and there is mind blowing chemistry between you. Almost […]
• How to get back on track with your debt repayment plan once you have fallen off the horse? January 20, 2011
  Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could all have the will power or support and motivation to stay on track with repaying debt perfectly without falling off the horse sometime? It would be, we ‘should’ never fall of the horse, but in reality we’re likely to, so the important thing is to not feel like […]