Payments platform Sniip links app to Qantas Frequent Flyers

A Brisbane-based bill paying app has just announced a new frequent flyer partnership where users will score 5000 points just by making three bill payments.

Earn Qantas frequent flyer points just by using Sniip to pay bills.

A financial technology company that allows consumers to pay bills via an app has secured a new partnership with the Qantas Frequent Flyer program.

Since 2014 payments platform Sniip has helped over 140,000 customers to seamlessly pay over 1 million bills and will now reward Qantas Frequent Flyers when they use the software company’s app to pay their bills.

From April, new customers who sign up to Sniip are eligible to receive 5000 bonus Qantas points when they complete three bill payments, to a total value of $1000 within 60 days.

Both new and existing customers will be able to earn one Qantas point for every $10 transacted on eligible payments in the Sniip app, further expanding the range of ways that frequent flyers can earn on financial products and services.

The company is based in South Brisbane and was founded by chief executive Damien Vasta.

Sniip initially worked with Queensland Urban Utilities and the Brisbane City Council, to help customers to pay bills using Sniip by scanning a QR code.

The company has since expanded.

Vasta says they have always believed that paying bills shouldn’t feel like a chore.

“By partnering with Qantas Frequent Flyer, we’re turning everyday expenses into rewards, offering our customers more value for doing something they already have to do,” he says.

Sniip chief executive Damien Vasta.

Travel job

The new chief executive of Brisbane-headquartered Corporate Travel Management will be clocking up the corporate miles.

CTM Australia & New Zealand chief executive Greg McCarthy will leave the job he has held for seven years on June 30.

He will be replaced by former AMEX Global Business Travel general manager and regional vice president Asia-Pacific Jo Sully who joins the ASX-listed company on May 5.

McCarthy will remain in the business until June 30 to ensure a smooth transition.

According to LinkedIn Sully – who has been with AMEX for more than two decades – lives in Sydney so there’s bound to be a bit of Zooming and plenty of commuter flights up to Brisbane.

Jo Sully who will take over from Greg McCarthy as Corporate Travel Management's new CEO Australia & New Zealand on June 30.

Charity cheer

A group of renowned Queenslanders recently helped one of Brisbane’s oldest homeless support charities mark 50 years of service to the community.

Author Trent Dalton joined hair king Stefan, World Champion boxer Jeff Horn and politico Sam O’Connor in support of 3rd Space.

The guests heard the charity has helped hundreds of thousands of people across the homeless community in its 50 years in operation.

Dalton, who brought 1980s Brisbane to life with Boy Swallows Universe and charted the plight of the homeless in Lola In The Mirror – told the dinner guests that 3rd Space had been part of the Brisbane landscape for even longer.

“The fact is that 50 years since 3rd Space hosted the first conversation and cuppa with a person experiencing homeless, there is a greater than ever need for their services and that is why I am proud to be here tonight,” he says.

3rd Space Brisbane is a daytime drop-in centre for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, providing conversations, hot showers and a cafe-style meal to thousands of people every year.

The organisation also provides access to support workers, medical, mental health, law, tenancy, employment, financial support and other services.

Originally published as Payments platform Sniip links app to Qantas Frequent Flyers