Hapi and Upgrade Partner to Help Hotels Deploy Modern Payment Options at Scale with Flex Pay
Why this matters
Hospitality has separated by chain scale and demand segment, with luxury and resort outperforming and select-service holding pricing power on a leaner cost base. New construction starts remain at multi-decade lows, which has supported in-place RevPAR and made conversions of soft-branded flags an increasingly active part of transaction velocity. For sponsors with operational expertise, the sector continues to offer one of the more compelling income-plus-appreciation profiles available across CRE.
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- Disclosed hospitality deal value tracked in September 2026: $5B across 15 reported transactions. All Hospitality coverage →
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Hapi and Upgrade's Flex Pay integration automates BNPL payment processing across reservation systems and PMS platforms, already live across thousands of hotels and billed as the first above-property payment automation…
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