Support TipWisely
TipWisely is free to use and funded by readers and the Global Tipping Pocket Guide. A small donation helps us keep researching and re-verifying tipping norms every year, country by country.
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What a donation concretely funds
Every country page on TipWisely carries a dated sources block, and that date isn't decorative — it's a commitment to go back and re-check that page's norms at least once a year. Across roughly ninety country pages alone, that's a recurring workload: re-confirming whether a service charge is still legally required in a given country, whether a minimum-wage change has shifted how necessary tipping actually is there, and whether card-reader tip prompts have newly taken hold somewhere they weren't common before. A donation goes directly toward keeping that annual pass funded, rather than letting a page's "last checked" date quietly drift two or three years out of accuracy the way most tipping advice online does.
Why donations instead of heavier ads
A site answering "how much do I tip this person right now" gets read in a hurry, often mid-transaction — that's a bad moment to interrupt with intrusive ad units competing for the same screen space as the answer someone actually needs. Running more ad inventory would fund the site too, but at the cost of exactly the readability the site is built around. Donations, plus the modest revenue from the Global Tipping Pocket Guide, let the directory stay light and fast without trading away that focus.
What a supporter gets — and doesn’t
There's no supporter tier that unlocks extra pages, no removal of content from non-supporters, and no paywall hiding any country, situation, or gift-occasion page behind a donation. A donation doesn't buy influence over what a country page says either — the sourcing standard on the methodology page applies the same way regardless of who's funding the site that month. What it buys is straightforward: the research time it takes to keep the directory accurate stays funded.
Free ways to help just as much
If a donation isn't something you're able to make, there are ways to help that cost nothing. Sharing a specific country or situation page with someone who's about to travel is genuinely useful — it's how most new readers find the site in the first place. Buying the Pocket Guide funds the same research even though it's framed as a purchase rather than a gift. And if you've been somewhere recently and noticed a norm that's changed or a page that's simply wrong, sending that correction through the contact form directly improves the site's accuracy in a way a donation alone can't — it's the one contribution that actually requires firsthand knowledge instead of money.
No obligation, no pressure
If you're here because you needed to know how much to tip a hotel porter or a hairdresser and that's all you needed, that's genuinely fine — the site exists to answer that question for free, donation or not. This page exists for the smaller number of readers who want to give something back, not to pressure anyone who doesn't.