The announcement
Flywire Corporation announced a deepened partnership with Davidson Hospitality Group on 9 September 2026, datelined Boston. Flywire is a payments enablement and software company listed on Nasdaq as FLYW. The release states that Flywire will roll out payment and transaction management across the Davidson portfolio.
The release describes Davidson as a full-service hospitality management company with 88 hotels and resorts, more than 240 restaurants, bars and lounges, and 1.4 million square feet of meeting space across the United States, Europe and the Caribbean.
What the deployment party reports
The release states that Davidson properties demonstrated processing fee savings within months of deploying the platform. It reports a fall of roughly 75 percent in signature turnaround times. It reports a significant drop in back-office reconciliation work with no figure attached.
Two further numbers appear in the release. Flywire states that its chargeback response achieves over 70 percent win or no-contest rates, and that chargeback ratios stay below 0.03 percent. Both figures belong to the vendor. The release carries no sample, no measurement period and no audit, and neither figure appears on Flywire’s public travel or hospitality pages.
Tim Debruin, senior corporate director for event sales and planning at Davidson Hospitality, is quoted in the release. His title traces to the release alone. Colin Smyth, senior vice president and general manager of travel at Flywire, is confirmed on Flywire’s own leadership page.
Where a day-room ticket lands
A day-use sale is its own transaction at a ticket below the overnight rate. A fixed per-transaction fee therefore takes a larger share of a day-room ticket than of an overnight rate at the same property. That arithmetic follows the fee structure, and neither party publishes a per-transaction price to check it against.
The release names the mechanisms that move the total. Accepting ACH transfers alongside credit and debit cards shifts volume to a lower-cost rail. Automated payment matching removes manual entry between the property management system and the accounting platform. Capturing a signed authorisation and the payment intent at the same moment builds an audit trail and reduces disputes.
The day-use shelf publishes its own price basis. hotelSlots lists 103,857 hotels in its network across 46 states, states that day-use prices run 30 to 75 percent below nightly rates, and charges no fee to the property. Its booking flow takes a morning, afternoon, evening or overnight slot. Dayuse publishes an average day-room price of $87.43 in Indianapolis on its Indianapolis page, read on 24 September 2026, against Engine’s $128 par-rate average night in the same city.
What the release leaves out
The release states that the capabilities go across the portfolio. It does not state how many of the 88 properties run the platform and how many are still to come. It carries no implementation fee, no per-transaction price and no date for finishing the rollout. It names no individual property and no count of live sites.
Neither Davidson nor Flywire publishes a reconciliation cost, a chargeback rate or a payment fee it paid. An operator cannot price the change from the announcement, and the measured savings sit where the platform already runs.
The signature and the integrations
The release credits an e-signature platform without naming it. Flywire’s travel page fills that in. Flywire acquired Sertifi in February 2025, adding hospitality workflow software for digital contract signing, payment detail exchange and group event payments. That business serves more than 20,000 hotel locations.
The same page names three integration paths. Pay-by-Link is a payment portal that needs no development work. A checkout embed drops the payment flow into an existing booking or invoicing workflow. A full API or property-management-system integration connects payment collection to systems including Oracle OPERA Cloud, Amadeus Delphi, Mews and Salesforce. Flywire states that it holds PCI DSS Level 1 certification with annual third-party audits and reports SOC II Type II compliance reviewed each year.