Correspondence 0001213900-24-080790 from Toppoint Holdings Inc. (TOPP)
Toppoint Holdings Inc.
Date: Sept. 23, 2024 · CIK: 0001960847 · Accession: 0001213900-24-080790
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File numbers found in text: 333-281474
Referenced dates: August 29, 2024
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Lou@bevilacquapllc.com
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202.869.0888
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bevilacquapllc.com
September
23, 2024
VIA
EDGAR
U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
100
F Street, NE
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Attn:
Michael Purcell, Laura Nicholson, Brian McAllister and Shannon Buskirk
Re:
Toppoint
Holdings Inc.
Registration
Statement on Form S-1
Filed
August 12, 2024
File
No. 333-281474
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
We
hereby submit the responses of Toppoint Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) to the comments of the staff (the “Staff”)
of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission set forth in the Staff’s letter, dated August 29, 2024, providing the Staff’s
comments with respect to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1. Concurrently with the submission of this letter, the
Company is filing the Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Registration Statement”) via EDGAR
with the Commission.
For
the convenience of the Staff, each of the Staff’s comments is included followed by the corresponding response of the Company. Unless
the context indicates otherwise, references in this letter to “we,” “us” and “our” refer to the Company
on a consolidated basis.
Registration
Statement on Form S-1
Note
2: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Revenue
Recognition, page F-8
1.
We
note your response to comment two states that your transit time is typically within a 24 hour period. Please note that ASC 606 does
not provide a practical expedient for contracts with a short duration and therefore, requires an assessment of the criteria of ASC
606-10-25-27 to determine whether the performance obligation is satisfied over time, regardless of transit duration period. Tell
us supplementally the revenue amounts recognized in the financial reporting periods presented, for transit periods within 24 hours
and in excess of 24 hours. For transit periods in excess of 24 hours, identify the length of transit time. To the extent
you believe that the impacts of your current recognition of revenue at a point in time is not materially different than recognition
over time, please provide an analysis that supports this view. Refer to SAB Topic 1:M.
Response:
In response to the Staff’s comment, we respectfully advise the Staff that we believe our revenue should be recognized at a point
in time. We do not believe any of the three criteria under ASC 606-10-25-27 is met for our revenue to recognize over time. More specifically,
we do not believe that our customers simultaneously receive and consume the benefits provided by our performance. Additionally, ASC 606-10-55-6
states that when an entity may not be able to readily identify whether a customer simultaneously receives and consumes the benefits,
a performance obligation is satisfied over time if an entity determines that another entity would not need to substantially reperform
the work that the entity has completed to date if that other entity were to fulfill the remaining performance obligation to the customer.
It also states to presume that another entity fulfilling the remainder of the performance obligation would not have the benefit of any
asset that is presently controlled by the entity and that would remain controlled by the entity if the performance obligation were to
transfer to another entity.
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Our
conclusion that our customers do not simultaneously receive and consume the benefits is based upon the following. Our end customers
are brokers and recycling producers who trade recycled commodities. Both, broker and trade the commodities in the export loads we deliver
locally within a 100 mile radius or closer to the port of call. We are loaded at a specific production site, and then have the specific
delivery task to deliver the load to an exact port and terminal. Additionally, each load has a deadline date known as a “dock cut”.
The dock cut is the deadline the ship is receiving containers and will be set for sea to its next port. The loads are extremely time
sensitive and high throughput due to the volatility of the price of the commodity in transport. If a container misses the dock cut, the
value can be immediately reduced based on the market rate and margins are quite low on these commodities, so our customers require a
high volume to produce sustainable profits.
While
in transit, our customer is not receiving any benefit, because if that load is not delivered to the port, the customer cannot be paid
by the buyer without producing port delivery documents and scale tickets for their buying party. Therefore, all of the risk lies with
us. Our obligation is the delivery, not the transit. The specific delivery task is documented by a “booking number” and “container
number” from the container to be loaded. The booking number and container number from the empty container we pick up from the port
are specific to our company, and our truckers. In the case of reperformance, another entity would have to completely reperform any work
done to complete the original performance obligation. Additionally, the booking number and container cannot simply be reused due to homeland
security and customs restrictions. Most of our orders have an intraday to 2-3 day cycle time to deliver a large quantity of containers,
so a reorder to another trucking company is not possible while deliveries are in transit. Should we face a situation where a truck or
trailer is incapacitated, we would dispatch another truck from our company to attach and continue the delivery obligation and or, deploy
an onsite repair depending on the time sensitivity of the dock cut. The port and terminal where we deliver the loads would only recognize
and allow the entry of our company with our specific booking number and the container that was pulled to be loaded, and therefore another
entity could not simply finish the performance obligation. Additionally, because of the nature of our loads, it would be considered highly
unlikely that another company could pick up the load from our trucks during transit as they would be stopped at the port and not allowed
to complete the delivery to the ship. This adds to the conclusion that our customers do not simultaneously receive and consume the benefits
of our services over time.
2.
We
note that you are adopting a policy that provides customers a right of refund within two years beginning when transportation services
are provided or monies are received by you. In consideration of this supplementary information, please tell us how you considered
the guidance for sales with rights of return at ASC 606-10-55-22 to 55-29 in applying the core principles of revenue recognition
outlined in ASC 606-10-05-4. Specifically tell us how you determined the amount of the transaction price allocated to the performance
obligation and the amount of consideration to which you are entitled in exchange for providing transit services and how you also
considered guidance on constraining estimates of variable consideration and accounting for a significant financing component over
the two-year refund period. We refer you to ASC 606-10-32-2 to 32-27.
Response:
In response to the Staff’s comment, we adjusted our disclosures to reflect the following. The current amount of deferred revenue
results from advances received during 2022 from specific customers. These customers paid the Company, but due to less sophisticated processes
at the time, the Company could not produce any documentation showing that the performance obligations with those customers were complete.
The Company is adopting a right of return, only on these advances from prior years. Since 2023, the Company has not experienced any other
instances where monies were received, without proper documentation. Upon reaching the two-year mark, on each advance, the Company will
recognize other income for the release of such liability. We do not believe such transactions fall under the scope of ASC 606, primarily
due to the fact that there is no conclusion that both parties are committed to perform their respective obligations, and as a result
there is no contract under ASC 606.
3.
Expand
your policy disclosure to include the information about performance obligations with respect to the policy for a customer’s
two-year refund rights, as applicable. See ASC 606-10-50-12 to 50-15.
Response:
In response to the Staff’s comment, we have adjusted our disclosures in the notes to our
financial statements.
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If
you would like to discuss any of the responses to the Staff’s comments or if you would like to discuss any other matters, please
contact Louis A. Bevilacqua of Bevilacqua PLLC at (202) 869-0888 (ext. 100) or Hok C Chan, Chief Executive Officer of Toppoint Holdings
Inc. at (551) 866-1320.
Sincerely,
/s/
Louis A. Bevilacqua, Esq.
Louis A. Bevilacqua, Esq.
Bevilacqua PLLC
cc:
Hok C Chan, Toppoint Holdings Inc.