Tipper sells into hospitality venues where cash tipping has faded, principally hotels and parking garages whose frontline workers still depend on gratuities as a large share of take-home pay.
Operators adopt cashless tipping to speed payouts and improve retention among service staff, a pressure that grows as guests carry less cash and expect digital payment options everywhere.
Tipper is a New York cashless-tipping company whose QR-code product routes guest gratuities directly to hospitality staff without cash or an app download.
The company was started by co-founders Jonathan Buckelew, its chief executive, Alan Scarpa, its chief technology officer, and Michael Shapiro, with Buckelew and Scarpa in their roles since April 2021.
Tipper provides cashless tipping through QR codes placed at the point of service, letting guests send gratuities directly to staff without carrying cash or installing an app.
The product serves hospitality teams such as hotel housekeeping and parking attendants, routing each tip to the worker who earned it and giving operators a digital record of gratuity flow.
