Flywire Partners with eTip to Expand Digital Tipping Capabilities Across Hospitality Clients

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 touchpoints. 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 NFC
• Automate tip pooling, distribution, reconciliation, and payroll synchronization
• Gain real-time visibility with reporting, compliance records, and 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.”

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