digital tipping
Cash in Hand: Examining the Role Hotel PMS Plays in Digital Tipping and Employee Rewards
Warren Dehan | August 27, 2024
Hotel companies must consider the impact of digital tipping trends on employee satisfaction as we trend toward a cashless society By Warren Dehan Tipping is an integral part of North American service culture, but it has always had challenges in hospitality. Travelers today carry fewer cash bills than ever, with a recent study showing that just 16 percent of all transactions today are handled using cash. More businesses are turning to digital tipping solutions to adapt to this shift in consumer behavior, but common barriers exist in the hotel tech stack that prevent some independent hoteliers from quickly offering digital tipping. Tipping is...
Grazzy’s Digital Tipping and Instant Earnings Disbursement Solution Now Integrates With Oracle Hospitality OPERA Cloud
Oracle Partner Network | May 31, 2023
Available through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, new integration enhances digital tipping enablement with charge to room functionality, automated employee tip distribution, and robust reporting AUSTIN, Texas, May 31, 2023 -- Grazzy, a leading payments and rewards platform for hospitality and a member of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN), today announced its digital tipping enablement and instant tip disbursement solution is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and can be integrated with Oracle Hospitality OPERA Cloud. Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a centralized repository of enterprise applications offered by Oracle and Oracle partners. ...
youtip to Host ‘Catch Cash for a Cause’ to Support HFTP Foundation at HITEC Orlando
youtip | June 21, 2022
2nd Annual Digital Donation Drive to feature Cash Grab Money Booth; Proceeds donated to the HFTP Foundation via the youtip digital tipping platform Chicago — June 21, 2022 — Next week at HITEC Orlando in youtip Booth 2007, attendees will have the opportunity to “Catch Cash for a Cause” with all proceeds donated to the HFTP® Foundation (the philanthropic arm of Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals that helps secure nonprofit funding for hospitality and travel industry-related research, educational projects, and scholarships). As part of its 2nd Annual Digital Donation Drive, youtip will enable participants to catc...
youtip and Hospitality.FM Podcasters Partner to Broadcast LIVE at HITEC Orlando
youtip | June 16, 2022
Hospitality’s award-winning digital tipping platform to host timely discussions in Booth 2007 on hot topics surrounding hotel technology and the challenges they solve Chicago — June 16, 2022 — This month at HITEC Orlando, six personalities from the biggest hospitality podcast network, Hospitality.FM, will broadcast LIVE from the youtip Booth #2007 to discuss trending topics – including the rise of digital tipping in today’s cashless economy. The podcasters will lead conversations with some of the industry’s biggest and brightest leaders as they share their stories and report the news related to how hotel/travel technology is e...
youtip Presenting on “The Power of Tipping: Going Beyond the Money” at HITEC Orlando
youtip | June 9, 2022
Learn how a digital tipping solution can offset the labor crisis … give employees daily accessible income … measure guest, employee, and operator satisfaction … capture feedback … boost online reviews … provide financial wellness to employees and more; Exhibitor Tutorial 03B to be held Tuesday, June 28 at 12:00 p.m. Stage B in the Exhibit Hall at the Orange County Convention Center Chicago — June 09, 2022 — youtip, hospitality’s leading cashless, contactless, and app free digital tipping service, will host an Exhibitor Tutorial at HITEC Orlando titled: “The Power of Tipping: Going Beyond the Money.” The session will...
youtip Celebrates Inaugural Year With a Pop-Up Bar at HITEC Dallas and Digital Donation Drive for HFTP Foundation
youtip | September 27, 2021
The Pop-up Bar runs for three days during HITEC Dallas in Booth 3422 with tips donated to HFTP Foundation; HFTP to leverage youtip to process all donations during the event Dallas, TX — September 27, 2021 — This week at HITEC Dallas, hoteliers will experience the simplest, fastest digital tipping platform for hotel guests for the fledgling cashless economy. Called youtip, the enterprise gratuity solution with full reporting capabilities will be featured in Booth 3422 September 28 to 30 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Attendees can experience digital tipping firsthand at the youtip Pop Up Bar in Booth 3422, with all gra...
Digital Tipping: Meet the Need for Speed by Avoiding the App Store
Doug Miles | February 16, 2021
Downloading an app to tip hotel staff is too inconvenient for guests on the go By Doug Miles Did you know “if people pay with a credit card, (workers) will be tipped more?” That’s what tipping expert Michael Lynn said in a recent article titled: “Tipping do’s and don’ts: When and how much to tip in every situation.” Lynn is a Burton M. Sack Professor in Food & Beverage Management at the Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, and he is a nationally recognized expert on tipping with 70+ research publications written on the topic. Did you also know that 25% of users abandon apps after a single use? Whi...
Enthusiasm Is Building for Digital Tipping
Sarah Taveprungsenukul | February 2, 2021
Hospitality business owners say they are eager to begin rewarding frontline workers with new cashless, contactless, ‘appless’ gratuity solution By Sarah Taveprungsenukul Do you need a good laugh? Take just two minutes to watch comedian Larry David in this Curb Your Enthusiasm video clip as he deals with tipping missteps while at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Funny, right? We have all been there. No cash — or wrong dominations — to tip the valet … the bellman … the housekeeper. But today’s frontline hotel workers are not laughing. Throughout this pandemic, frontline staff at hotels across the globe have it rough. Man...
