Boston, MA and San Antonio, TX - June 18, 2026 – Today, at the Hospitality Industry Technology Exhibition and Conference (HITEC®), Flywire Corporation (Flywire) (Nasdaq: FLYW), a global payments enablement and software company, announced a new partnership with eTip, the #1 digital tipping and gratuity management platform in the hospitality industry. Through the partnership, Flywire's hospitality clients will gain access to eTip's full suite of cashless tipping, tip management, and employee payout solutions, extending Flywire's payment platform across the entire guest payment journey - from initial deposits and reservations through to staff gratuities.
eTip is the leading employee earnings, gratuity management, and financial wellness platform for hospitality, trusted by more than 1,000 hotel properties across the world's leading brands - including Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Wyndham, Accor, Radisson, and Waldorf Astoria - and designated as a digital tipping partner by both Visa and American Express. By embedding gratuity payments alongside deposits, authorizations, contracts, and reconciliation on a single platform, Flywire deepens its integration within hotel operations and captures an incremental source of recurring payment volume across high-frequency daily transactions in housekeeping, valet, food and beverage, and other guest service touch points. Hotels using eTip have reported up to a 35% increase in employee earnings and meaningful improvements in retention and engagement - addressing some of the hospitality industry's most pressing workforce challenges.
Through the partnership, Flywire's hospitality client base - which spans more than 20,000 hotel locations globally - will gain access to eTip's comprehensive employee earnings, gratuity management, and workforce engagement platform comprehensive end-to-end solution, including:
- Increase employee earnings through frictionless digital tipping via QR code and NFCCashless digital tipping via QR code and NFC, requiring no app download for guests
- Automate tip pooling, distribution, reconciliation, and payroll synchronization
- Gain real-time visibility with reporting, compliance records, and integrations Real-time reporting and compliance-grade downloadable records with direct POS and HR system integrations
- Provide instant access to earnings through debit card, ACH, PayPal, Venmo, or eTip-issued cards
“The hospitality industry increasingly expects its technology partners to manage the full spectrum of financial transactions across the guest experience,” said Colin Smyth, SVP and GM of Travel at Flywire. “By partnering with eTip - the clear market leader in digital tipping, trusted by the world's most recognized hotel brands - we are expanding the scope of what Flywire's platform delivers for our hospitality clients. This partnership is expected to add a new source of payment volume while giving our clients a more complete, deeply embedded solution that covers every touchpoint of the guest journey.”
“Partnering with Flywire allows us to bring digital tipping to thousands of additional hotel properties through a payments platform they already rely on for their most critical workflows,” said Nicolas Cassis, Co-Founder and CEO of eTip. “Flywire's deep presence across hospitality and its sophisticated approach to payments make it the ideal partner to accelerate the adoption of cashless tipping and ensure that more service employees receive the gratuities they have earned.”
About Flywire
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company. We combine our proprietary global payments network, next-gen payments platform and vertical-specific software to deliver the most important and complex payments for our clients and their customers. Flywire leverages its vertical-specific software and payments technology to deeply embed within the existing A/R workflows for its clients across the education, healthcare and travel vertical markets, as well as in key B2B industries. Flywire also integrates with leading ERP systems, such as NetSuite, so organizations can optimize the payment experience for their customers while eliminating operational challenges.
Flywire supports more than 5,100** clients with diverse payment methods in more than 140 currencies across 240 countries and territories around the world. Flywire is headquartered in Boston, MA, USA with global offices. For more information, visit www.flywire.com. Follow Flywire on X (formerly known as Twitter), LinkedIn, and Facebook.
**Not including Flywire’s Invoiced and Sertifi acquisitions.
About eTip
eTip is the leading employee earnings, gratuity management, and financial wellness platform for hospitality and service industries. Headquartered in San Francisco, eTip empowers thousands of hotels, resorts, restaurants, residential communities, and service businesses to attract, retain, and reward frontline employees while delivering exceptional guest experiences.
The company's end-to-end platform powers the entire gratuity ecosystem—from guest-facing digital tipping and reputation management to automated tip pooling, distribution, compliance, payroll synchronization, and real-time employee payouts. Through its innovative technology and workforce-focused solutions, eTip helps organizations increase employee earnings, improve retention, streamline operations, and strengthen workforce engagement.
Today, eTip supports some of the world's most recognized hospitality brands and service organizations, helping millions of guests seamlessly recognize and reward exceptional service while enabling organizations to strengthen employee satisfaction, retention, and financial well-being.
For more information, visitwww.eTip.com
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