The announcement and where it sits
Flywire Corporation (Nasdaq: FLYW) announced a deepened partnership with Davidson Hospitality Group on 9 September 2026. The release is a GlobeNewswire distribution by Flywire with a Boston dateline of 9 September 2026. It rolls advanced payment and transaction management across the management company's portfolio.
The copy on the Adventure Travel Trade Association's member-news section carries the same body text, both quotes and both named executives. That page carries its own date line of 16 September 2026 and no byline.
The workflow the deployment starts with
Davidson adopted Flywire's payments and digital signature products first, and the pair compressed guest deposit collection and contract execution into one mobile-first workflow. The expanded agreement takes the platform across the portfolio. Payment acceptance runs through ACH transfers alongside credit and debit cards, and payment matching is automated between property management systems and accounting platforms.
The release lists four results for the properties already live and four capabilities for the wider rollout. The results cover the processing fee savings, the signature turnaround time, the reconciliation workload and the guest-facing change. The capabilities cover lower per-transaction cost through ACH, chargeback mitigation through simultaneous capture of signed authorization and payment intent, automated reconciliation, and flexible payment options with faster confirmations.
The figures with one origin
The release states that signature turnaround times fell by roughly 75 percent. Flywire supplies the figure, and the trade association copy repeats it word for word. The release carries no audit of the measure.
Two further numbers appear only in this release. Flywire's chargeback response achieves win or no-contest rates above 70 percent, and the company maintains chargeback ratios below 0.03 percent.
The two sides of the counterparty
The release's own boilerplate describes Davidson as a full-service hospitality management company with 88 existing 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. It lists four operating verticals and names Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Kimpton, Margaritaville and Nobu.
The same boilerplate gives Flywire's scale: more than 5,300 clients, more than 140 currencies, 240 countries and territories, and integration with enterprise resource planning systems including NetSuite.
Where ACH replaces a card transaction
The cost claims describe mechanism. Accepting ACH transfers alongside cards moves volume to lower-cost rails and cuts per-transaction expense. Guests gain free local payment options such as ACH and EFT transfers, and the release words the saving itself as substantial annual savings with no number behind it.
The executive title with one source
Tim Debruin is quoted as Senior Corporate Director, Event Sales & Planning at Davidson Hospitality. Colin Smyth is quoted as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Travel at Flywire. Both titles appear in the release and in its reproductions.
What the record establishes
A management company moving 88 properties onto one payments platform is a procurement decision. The record establishes the scope, the platform functions and the counterparty's size. It carries no independently measured saving, no deployment timetable and no per-property cost.
The one dated anchor is 9 September 2026, when Flywire announced the expansion.