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With demand for hotel rooms forecasted to pick up this year and next in the United States, hospitality point-of-sale specialist Mews is adding multicurrency processing for hotel operators in the United States and Canada.
Already made available 14 months ago to European hotels, the multicurrency service enables international travelers to pay in their home currencies and see the transaction in their credit card statements in that currency. It’s live now for online payments and is expected soon for in-person transactions, Amsterdam-based Mews says.
It works like this. The customer chooses to pay in her home currency. The total payment, including a fee for the conversion, is added to the balance. Part of that conversion fee is retained by Mews and the payments provider. The hotel operator keeps the rest of the payment and a portion of the conversion fee. A Mews blog post from a year ago showed the multicurrency fee of 3% for online transactions and 4% for in-person transactions, with the property retaining 1% of that fee.
Mews says the 5,000 European hotels offering the multicurrency option generate enough revenue to offset part of their Mews subscription costs, with median offsets ranging from 2% to 10%. Mews does not release its pricing publicly.
This could be good news for hotel operators given that one forecast, from CoStar, a real-estate data company, and Tourism Economics, a data analytics firm, shows 2026 U.S. hotel demand could increase 1.3% in 2026 over 2025 and by 1% in 2027 over 2026.
Mews also released recurring payments and accounts receivable capabilities.
The recurring payments component could help properties offering extended stays, co-working spaces, or membership-based services avoid missed or delayed payments because of a disruption to the payment method. Mews says once a hotel has set a payment plan with the user, Mews automates the collection without manual triggers. Already, more than 100 properties have used the service and created more than 16,000 payment plans, Mews says.
The accounts receivable feature can expedite the collection process for stays that are invoiced, Mews says. The service—now available only for hotels in Euro-based markets, though additional currencies are planned in 2027—automates invoice issuance, payment reminders, collection, and reconciliation within the Mews platform.
