For hotels
Your guests want to say thanks. Most of them don’t carry cash.
tippos lets a guest tip your housekeeping, valet or bell staff by card. Stripe pays the tip to your employee’s own bank, and your hotel never touches it.
A tip is a thank-you, not a front-desk task
Today a guest who wants to thank the housekeeper has three options: find small bills, leave an envelope at the desk, or leave nothing. tippos adds a fourth, the card they already carry.
No cash to handle.
No envelopes at the front desk and no “please give this to room 412’s housekeeper.”
No tips to hand out.
The tip never touches your folio, safe or tip-out process.
The right person gets it.
Each tip is a code only the person who receives it can claim.
Why it works
Your hotel never handles the money
The guest pays by card. Stripe pays the tip to your employee’s own Stripe account and on to their bank. Your hotel doesn’t collect, hold or pay out anything.
Your staff keep the full tip
The guest pays a platform fee, shown before they add a card. Your employee receives the tip amount the guest chose. There’s nothing for your hotel or your staff to pay.
Guests do it from their phone, no app needed
The guest scans, picks an amount, adds an optional note and gets a claim code. Everything happens in the phone’s browser, with no account and no app.
How to set it up
- 1
Put a QR printout where guests say thanks
On the nightstand, at the valet stand, at the bell desk. The QR opens tippos.app/give. Nothing connects to your systems.
- 2
The guest leaves a code
They choose an amount and get a claim code, which they can leave on the card or hand to the staff member. Their card isn’t charged yet.
- 3
Your employee claims it
They scan the code or enter it at tippos.app/claim within 7 days and sign in with their email. The first time, they set up payouts with Stripe. The card is charged once the tip is claimed, and Stripe pays it to their bank.
An unclaimed tip is never charged, so nothing is left to refund or reconcile.
Do your staff qualify?
Each employee who receives tips needs:
- 18 or older
- Lives and works in a U.S. state where tippos is available
- A bank account in their own name, for Stripe to pay tips into
- A Social Security number, for Stripe’s identity check
- Claims tips only for work they did themselves
Tip pad
Prefer a pad? Request a free tear-off tip pad.
A free, phone-sized pad of tip sheets for the nightstand, valet stand or bell desk. A guest scans, writes a thank-you and the claim code, and tears off a sheet for the person they’re thanking.
Request a free tip padTell us your hotel and how many pads you need, and we’ll get back to you.
Questions managers ask
What does it cost my hotel?
Nothing. The guest pays the platform fee on top of the tip, and your staff receive the full tip.
Do I need to integrate it with our systems?
No. There’s no hardware, point of sale or property-management integration. A QR printout is the whole setup.
How long does staff onboarding take?
There’s nothing to roll out. Each employee sets up payouts with Stripe the first time they claim a tip, and later tips skip that step. They need to be 18 or older, in the U.S., and claim tips for work they did themselves.
Can tips be pooled or split across a team?
Not yet. Each code is claimed by one person, so the tip goes to whoever the guest gave it to.
Do employees still report tips they get through tippos?
Yes. Tips of $20 or more in a month from one job are reported to the employer by the 10th of the next month, on paper or electronically, the same as cash tips.
IRS Publication 531: reporting tip incomeDo these tips run through our payroll?
The money doesn’t: Stripe pays the employee’s own bank. Tips your employees report to you are handled in payroll the same way as the cash tips they report today.
What about taxes and No Tax on Tips?
Tips are income, whether cash or card. Many tipped jobs can deduct up to $25,000 of qualified tips a year from federal income tax for 2025 through 2028. Not tax advice; check with your accountant.
Tips and taxes, in plain EnglishCan guests see my employee’s contact details?
No. tippos never shows email or phone numbers to the other person.
Give your guests a way to say thanks
Print it, put it in the room, and let guests decide what feels right.
Or request a free tear-off tip padQuestions: contact@tippos.app