PostPilot
postpilot.com
What it is
PostPilot is a direct mail platform for ecommerce brands using postcards and catalogs to acquire, retarget, and retain customers. Campaigns cover prospecting, retargeting, abandoned carts, loyalty, subscriptions, winback, and retail. MailMatch links email addresses with physical mailing addresses. AcquisitionAI helps find lookalike prospects, while SiteMatch retargets anonymous site browsers. Reporting includes real-time dashboards, holdout-tested iROAS measurement, and cross-channel attribution. Listed integrations include Shopify, Klaviyo, Yotpo, Attentive, Omnisend, Recharge, Loyalty Lion, and Loop Subscriptions; an open API can connect other systems to campaigns. PostPilot automatically tracks Shopify customers who receive a postcard or handwritten card for 60 days. There is no sending minimum. The free plan has no platform cost, but postcards and postage are paid separately. Growth costs $82.50 a month with annual billing; monthly billing is 99 USD per month. Its AI prospecting data fee is $0.07. Pro costs $419 a month with annual billing, and Enterprise pricing is custom.
Spec sheet
- What it does
- PostPilot is a direct-mail marketing platform for ecommerce brands that sends personalized postcards, catalogs and handwritten cards across acquisition, retargeting and retention.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Product
- PostPilot provides a direct mail platform for ecommerce brands to acquire, retarget, and retain customers with postcard and catalog campaigns.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- API
- PostPilot says it offers an open API to connect data from other systems to direct mail campaigns.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Integrations
- The integration directory lists 14 integrations and highlights Shopify, Klaviyo, Attentive, Postscript, Yotpo, Orita, Swym, StayAI, Skio, Smile and Digioh.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Support
- The site lists [email protected] as its support contact.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Acquisition targeting
- AcquisitionAI uses large third-party attribute and intent datasets to find prospects resembling a brand’s best customers, with audience creation described as taking hours.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- AI
- AcquisitionAI is described as a lookalike engine for finding prospects, and SiteMatch retargets anonymous site browsers.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- AI data use
- PostPilot says aggregated and anonymized transactional data is used to train its AI products and that customers cannot access or specifically benefit from another customer's data.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- AI usage fee
- The AI FAQ lists an AcquisitionAI Prospecting data fee of $0.07 per recipient.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Analytics
- The service provides real-time campaign dashboards, holdout-tested incremental ROAS measurement and cross-channel attribution.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- API documentation depth
- Help articles include endpoint paths, JSON examples, segment setup instructions, custom-field use, troubleshooting guidance and flow-versus-segment differences.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.postpilot.com
- API limitation
- Flows are being deprecated for new API campaigns, while Recharge, Omnisend, Loyalty Lion and LifeMatch birthday campaigns still require flows.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.postpilot.com
- API security controls
- API connection URLs contain bearer-like connection tokens; users can disable or regenerate URLs, which invalidates previous URLs, and inspect the last 48 hours of calls.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.postpilot.com
- Campaigns
- The platform supports prospecting, retargeting, abandoned cart, loyalty, subscription, winback, and retail campaigns.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Capterra-listed capabilities
- Capterra lists campaign management, event-triggered actions, import/export, delivery tracking, analytics, printing-services integration, design management and mailer templates.Read 15 Oct 2026 · capterra.com
- CartMatch
- CartMatch targets abandoned-cart customers, including people whose postal address is not known.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com
- Category benchmarks
- Category Insights uses anonymized data from other stores and requires at least 10 brands in a category before reporting is shown.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the legal name as PostPilot, Inc. and operating status as active.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com
- Company size and headquarters
- LinkedIn lists PostPilot as privately held, headquartered in New York, with 51–200 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com
- Customer insights
- Customer Insights uses aggregated third-party datasets with thousands of attributes to describe characteristics of a brand’s customers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Data-use requirement
- PostPilot AI requires opt-in to use aggregated and anonymized transactional data for model training; customers can opt out and continue ordinary campaigns, but AI features then become unavailable.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Design tools
- Users can choose customizable templates, use a drag-and-drop editor, personalize fields or upload finished artwork; monthly plans include professional design services.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Founded-year discrepancy
- LinkedIn lists 2015 as the founding year, while Inc.’s company profile lists 2018.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com
- Funding
- A June 5, 2024 announcement says PostPilot received its first major equity transaction from Summit Partners with participation by Klaviyo founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen; the amount was not disclosed.Read 15 Oct 2026 · prweb.com
- Handwritten cards
- PostPilot says its handwritten cards use robotic real-pen writing with variable letter spacing and indentation so cards differ from one another.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Independent company profile
- Inc. describes PostPilot as creating and sending personalized automated direct mail and handwritten notes, with 2018 founding, New York location and 51–200 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · inc.com
- LifeMatch
- LifeMatch currently supports birthday campaigns and the company says additional milestones such as marriage and having children are planned.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Limit: ROI variability
- The sole G2 reviewer reported that several warm-lead test campaigns did not produce enough return to justify continuing.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
- MailMatch
- MailMatch can resolve an email address to a physical address so a postcard can be sent without the merchant already holding a mailing address.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.postpilot.com
- Measurement limit
- PostPilot automatically tracks each Shopify customer who receives a postcard or handwritten card for 60 days.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Non-Shopify connectivity
- Magento, WooCommerce and custom ecommerce platforms can connect through PostPilot’s API, and Zapier is supported for connecting other apps.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Notable news
- The June 5, 2024 funding announcement said PostPilot had opened new U.S. and U.K. production facilities, launched SiteMatch and ShopDrops, and recorded more than 200% revenue growth in 2023.Read 15 Oct 2026 · prweb.com
- Personalized campaigns
- The platform supports one-off and lifecycle campaigns with customer names and other dynamic fields inserted into designs.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.postpilot.com
- Praise: creative and support
- The sole G2 reviewer said the team was helpful and professional, designs were eye-catching and communication was consistent.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
- Praise: service and usability
- Shopify reviewers repeatedly praise strong ROI, intuitive reporting, fast creative turnaround, deep integrations and responsive white-glove account support.Read 15 Oct 2026 · apps.shopify.com
- Privacy claim
- The company says one participant cannot access another participant’s data or target another brand’s customers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Production footprint
- PostPilot says it operates printing facilities in South Carolina, Arizona and London, and that its paper comes from FSC-certified mills with tree-offsetting for paper use.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Public API
- The API exposes endpoints for email-only MailMatch contacts, full-address contacts and Shopify customer events; payloads support three custom fields.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.postpilot.com
- Rating on Capterra
- 0.0 out of 5 from 0 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · capterra.com
- Rating on G2
- 2.5 out of 5 from 1 reviewRead 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
- Rating on Shopify App Store
- 4.9 out of 5 from 177 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · apps.shopify.com
- Reporting
- PostPilot offers real-time campaign dashboards, holdout-tested iROAS measurement, and cross-channel attribution.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- RetentionAI
- RetentionAI dynamically times mailings using individual customer behavior and attributes rather than applying one fixed schedule.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Sending minimum
- The pricing FAQ says there is no minimum and customers can send one card or one million.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- SiteMatch
- SiteMatch is offered as a website-retargeting feature for reaching anonymous site visitors.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- Target customer
- The pricing page describes Growth as built for brands doing $1m–$3m/year in sales, Pro for up to 50,000 mailpieces monthly, and Enterprise for more than 50,000 monthly.Read 3 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
- UK limitation
- For UK customers, the current postcard format is A5 and existing-customer campaigns are supported; prospecting campaigns are described as planned rather than currently available.Read 15 Oct 2026 · postpilot.com
Plans and prices
Strong points and limits
Strong points
- No minimum sending quantity
- Open API connects other systems
- Includes campaign dashboards and cross-channel attribution
- Free plan includes the full platform
Limits
- Postcards and postage cost extra on the free plan
- AI prospecting data costs $0.07
- Enterprise price is custom
Who it suits
PostPilot suits ecommerce teams using direct mail to find prospects, retarget visitors, or retain customers. The listed plan descriptions distinguish brands by sales and monthly mailpiece volume.
Verdict
PostPilot combines direct-mail campaign types with address matching, audience tools, and reporting. The free plan has no platform cost, but Growth starts at $82.50 a month with annual billing, and AI prospecting carries a per-recipient fee.
Where Specifiction places it
- Direct Mail Automation Software#5 of 288.6
- Direct Mail Marketing Software#2 of 98.5