Black Forest · Postscript · prepared for counsel

What Postscript cost us in 2026

Eight statement months, itemised as Postscript itemises them. Figures are taken from the Postscript billing portal, captured 2026-08-31, and reconcile to the billing-record memo already in the file. Amounts are USD.

$147,463.32 billed in 2026, of which $35,542.75 is unpaid. Separately Postscript has demanded $201,538.56, which includes the unpaid June invoice but not the $4,100.25 July statement. Total exposure on the current record is $205,638.81.
Billed, 2026 to date
$147,463
8 statement months
Paid
$111,921
through the May 2026 statement
Unpaid
$35,543
June and July statements
Demanded
$201,539
ETF $170,096 plus the June invoice

The 2026 statements

Statement monthMessagingCarrier Carrier ÷ messaging2.9% feeSales taxStatement total Status
Jan 2026$14,805.62$7,713.700.521$653.01$1,694.43$24,865.32paid
Feb 2026$12,026.80$6,066.840.504$524.71$837.83$19,456.18paid
Mar 2026$12,409.39$6,288.860.507$542.23$868.46$20,108.34paid
Apr 2026$11,577.40$7,723.520.667$559.72$1,066.61$20,927.25paid
May 2026$14,857.72$9,643.400.649$710.53$1,331.75$26,543.40paid
Jun 2026$18,216.87$10,879.400.597$843.79$1,502.44$31,442.50unpaid, invoice 485152-2026-07-01-1
Jul 2026$1,318.12$1,376.211.044$110.20$190.05$4,100.25overdue, minimum-spend reconciliation
Aug 2026$12.78$7.300.571——$20.08partial month at capture
2026 to date $85,224.70$49,699.23 $3,944.19$7,491.57 $147,463.32

Three things the 2026 statements show

1. July is the anomaly, and it is the undelivered-traffic point. Carrier charges run at 0.504 to 0.667 of the messaging line in every ordinary month, averaging 0.574. In July 2026, after sending had moved off the platform, the ratio was 1.044: carrier $1,376.21 against messaging $1,318.12. Outbound volume collapsed and carrier charges did not follow it down. The Usage Activity export itemised by traffic type, July first, is what tests this.

2. The 2.9% convenience fee cost $3,944.19 in 2026 alone ($4,897.34 lifetime). It first appears on the November 2025 statement; April to October 2025 show neither it nor sales tax. It reconciles to the cent as 2.9% of the usage subtotal. The executed Service Order does not contain it, and it does say the customer "will set up and maintain ACH billing".

3. Sales tax added $7,491.57 in 2026 ($8,550.00 lifetime), also first appearing in November 2025 and absent from December.

One line of argument that does not survive the numbers. Carrier fees themselves are not overcharged. Calibrated against the fixed-rate messaging line, implied carrier cost runs 0.75 to 1.04 times Postscript's published toll-free rates, and the contract permits carrier rates to vary. An earlier reading that January 2026 was a 1.75x outlier was an artefact of under-counted flow volume; calibrated, January is 0.78x and in line with every other month. The undelivered-traffic point in July stands on its own and does not depend on it.

Against the replacement

Sending moved to Klaviyo during June and July 2026. For scale, this is what the two platforms cost in the same months. Klaviyo billed no SMS line before July 2026; the June amount is a mid-cycle proration.

MonthPostscriptKlaviyo, SMS line Klaviyo, platform lineKlaviyo total
Mar 2026$20,108.34$0.00$3,655.00$3,655.00
Apr 2026$20,927.25$0.00$3,785.00$3,785.00
May 2026$26,543.40$0.00$3,900.00$3,900.00
Jun 2026$31,442.50$10,710.00$4,610.00$15,320.00
Jul 2026$4,100.25$31,420.00$4,030.00$35,450.00
Aug 2026$20.08$22,360.00$4,290.00$26,650.00
Six months $103,141.82 $64,490.00$24,270.00 $88,760.00
Read that comparison carefully. The two columns are not like for like on volume, and Postscript bills message parts while Klaviyo bills credits, so a per message rate cannot be derived from these totals. What the table does establish is the order of magnitude: Postscript was running $31,442 in its last full sending month, and Klaviyo now runs $25,770 a month for SMS and all email and profile storage combined.

Where these figures come from

Source. Postscript billing portal, captured by screenshot 2026-08-31 while logged in. The portal at app.postscript.io/billing/overview is session-gated and returns 404 unauthenticated, and the Postscript API key returns 401, so the billing history cannot be pulled programmatically.

Reconciliation. Every row here matches the billing-record memo already in the file. The 2.9% fee column reconciles to 2.9% of each usage subtotal within one cent in all eight months.

Not included. Invoices are addressed to the company's accounts-payable mailbox, not the sender's. Any statement not visible in the captured portal view is not represented here.