eTip Partners with Flywire to Expand Digital Tipping Across the Global Hospitality Industry

Partnership brings eTip’s leading digital tipping and employee payments platform to Flywire’s hospitality ecosystem of more than 20,000 hotel locations worldwide.

Collaboration extends eTip’s reach to thousands of new properties through a payments platform hotels already trust for their most critical workflows.

San Francisco, CA — June 18, 2026 — Today at the Hospitality Industry Technology Exhibition and Conference (HITEC®), eTip, the leading employee earnings, gratuity management, and financial wellness platform for hospitality, announced a strategic partnership with Flywire Corporation (Nasdaq: FLYW), a global payments enablement and software company. Through the partnership, Flywire’s hospitality clients will gain access to eTip’s full suite of cashless tipping, gratuity management, and employee payout solutions, helping hotels extend digital tipping across the entire guest journey, from reservations and deposits to employee gratuities and earnings distribution.

Expanding Digital Tipping Across the Global Hospitality Industry

eTip is the leading employee earnings, gratuity management, and financial wellness platform for hospitality, helping operators attract, retain, and reward frontline staff while delivering exceptional guest experiences. Trusted by thousands of hotel properties across the world’s leading brands, including Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Wyndham, Accor, Radisson, and Waldorf Astoria, eTip is also a designated digital tipping partner of Visa and American Express. 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.

Bringing eTip to 20,000+ Hotel Locations Worldwide

By embedding gratuity payments alongside deposits, authorizations, contracts, and reconciliation on a single platform, the partnership puts cashless tipping within reach of high-frequency daily transactions in housekeeping, valet, food and beverage, and other guest service touchpoints. Through Flywire’s hospitality ecosystem of more than 20,000 hotel locations worldwide, eTip will expand its reach to thousands of additional properties, enabling hotels to:

• Increase employee earnings through frictionless digital tipping via QR codes and NFC
• Automate tip pooling, distribution, reconciliation, and payroll synchronization
• Gain real-time visibility through reporting, compliance records, and integrations
• Provide instant access to earnings via debit card, ACH, PayPal, Venmo, or eTip-issued cards

“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 hospitality employees receive the gratuities they earn quickly, securely, and transparently.”

What This Means for Hotel Operators

“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, giving them a more complete, deeply embedded solution that covers every touchpoint of the guest journey.”

About eTip

eTip is the leading employee earnings, gratuity management, and financial wellness platform for hospitality and service industries, helping organizations attract, retain, and reward frontline employees while delivering exceptional guest experiences. Headquartered in San Francisco, eTip empowers thousands of hotels, resorts, restaurants, residential communities, and service businesses with solutions that increase employee earnings, improve retention, and strengthen workforce engagement.

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 streamline operations while ensuring employees receive the earnings they have earned quickly, securely, and transparently.

Today, eTip supports many of the world’s most recognized hospitality brands and service organizations, helping millions of guests seamlessly recognize and reward exceptional service while enabling employers to improve employee satisfaction, retention, and financial well-being. For more information, visit eTip.com.

About Flywire

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company. Flywire combines its proprietary global payments network, next-gen payments platform, and vertical-specific software to deliver the most important and complex payments for its clients and their customers. 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.