Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)
Instalment services like Afterpay, Laybuy and Zip that split a purchase into interest-free payments — committed spending that quietly stacks up.
Buy Now, Pay Later services let you take a purchase home today and pay it off in instalments — usually four payments over six weeks, interest-free. Afterpay, Laybuy and Zip are the big three in New Zealand.
The catch is not interest; it is memory. Each plan is small, but three or four running at once means a steady drain of committed money that your bank balance never warns you about. Miss a payment and late fees apply — and from 2 December 2025, BNPL providers in NZ fall under the CCCFA’s affordability rules, a sign of how mainstream this borrowing has become.
Owdyn tracks Afterpay, Laybuy and Zip plans natively — every upcoming instalment is subtracted from Safe to Spend automatically.
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