Standard
Free
- Listed on the marketplace
- Transparency score from your own connections
- Anonymized public profile
- 8% at closing (5% founding), nothing before
Fees
One 8% fee, seller side, everything included. Buyers pay nothing.
Listing is free. At closing there is one 8% fee paid by the seller, all-in: the Escrow.com fee is included and buyers never pay us anything. $800 minimum. Founding offer: the first 50 listings close at 5% flat, locked for the life of the listing.
Founding offer: 42 of 50 listings still close at 5% flat, locked for life.
What the seller pays
8% at closing, all-in, $800 minimum
- 8% of the sale price, taken inside escrow at closing. Nothing upfront, nothing if it does not sell.
- Escrow.com fee included, we pay it. No markup, no extra line for either party.
- Launch offer: on the first 50 API-verified listings, we cover your half of the escrow fee.
You sell for $20,000: our fee is $1,600 (8%) and you walk away with $18,400, escrow included. As a founding listing the fee drops to $1,000 (5%). The same sale on Flippa costs $2,000 plus a $49 listing and escrow on top. Featured stays a one-time $99 option.
- Your fee, 8% all-in
- -$1,600
- You walk away with
- $18,400
- Buyer pays TrustExits
- $0, always
- Escrow fee
- Included, we pay it
That is $449 more in your pocket than the same sale on Flippa (10% plus a $49 listing).
Founding offer: the first 50 listings close at 5% flat instead of 8%, locked for the life of the listing.
Escrow fees
Escrow.com's fee: included in our commission, we pay it. No extra line for the buyer or the seller, no hidden fee.
What the 8% covers
One number, everything in it. No listing pack, no subscription, no buyer fee, no separate escrow bill. The seller pays 8% only when the deal closes, and here is what that single fee pays for:
Escrow.com closing, included
Every deal settles through Escrow.com, a licensed third party. Its fee is inside our 8%, we pay it. Funds release only after the assets transfer.
Numbers read from the source
Revenue and traffic are pulled read-only from Shopify payouts, Stripe, Search Console and GA4, not screenshots. Both sides negotiate on facts.
The legal paperwork, generated
LOI and an asset purchase agreement are built in the deal room. No $1,500 to $3,000 lawyer round just to paper a $25k sale.
A qualified counterparty
Sellers meet buyers who signed an NDA and are serious; buyers meet sellers whose numbers are verified. No tyre-kickers, no fake traffic.
Transfer support and inspection
A structured checklist of assets, a 7-day inspection window, and help moving domain, store, accounts and supplier contracts across.
Dispute rails
If something goes wrong, the money stays held at Escrow.com under its dispute process until it is resolved. Nobody can pull it out alone.
Listing tiers
Featured
$99one-time
- Everything in Standard
- Featured slot on the homepage and marketplace
- Manual buyer matching from our buyer list
- Priority review and transfer support
Standard is free while we fill the catalog: your API verification is the entry filter, not a fee. Featured is a one-time option. The closing fee is the same regardless of tier.
How we compare
Competitor fees verified 6 July 2026 (their own pricing pages). Sources in our research notes.
| Platform | Seller fee | Buyer | Escrow | Listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TrustExits | 8% all-in (min $800), founding 5% | $0, always | Included, we pay it | Free at launch, Featured $99 |
| Flippa | 10% success fee | $0, Premium $49/mo | Paid by parties (from 1.2%) | $49 for $10-50k, +$199 NDA |
| Empire Flippers | 15% under $700k, min $10,000 | $0 | Included | Free, exclusivity required |
| Acquire.com | 6% to 8% | $390 to $780/yr | Included | $25 to $100/mo |
| dotmarket.eu | 6% (12% to 6% M&A) | 288-792 EUR/yr sub + 10% | External lawyers (CARPA) | Free, 91% rejected |
| VenteSiteInternet.com | No success fee | $0 | None, parties deal directly | 0 EUR (delayed 10-15d, URL public), 29-39 EUR |
Total friction on a $30k deal: TrustExits is $2,400 all-in for the seller ($1,500 as a founding listing) and $0 for the buyer, Escrow.com fee included. Flippa is 10% plus a $49 listing, a $199 NDA option and escrow on top. dotmarket adds a buyer subscription and services billed separately.
Anonymity is not a paid option here. Some classifieds sites show your URL publicly on the free tier and charge 39 EUR to mask it. On TrustExits the URL is hidden by default and revealed under NDA, at no cost.
Fee questions, answered straight
Why 8%, and not less?
Because 8% is all-in and honest. Flippa charges 10% plus a listing pack, an NDA option and the Escrow.com fee on top; Empire Flippers charges 15% and refuses deals under $30k. At 8% with escrow included and buyers paying nothing, you are already paying less real money than anywhere serious, for verified numbers instead of screenshots. The first 50 listings even close at 5%.
Is the Escrow.com fee really included, or is there a surprise at checkout?
Really included. We are the broker on the Escrow.com transaction and its fee is billed to us, not to you. The deal room shows the exact numbers before anyone funds anything: the buyer sends the sale price, the seller receives the price minus 8%, and no third line appears at the Escrow.com step.
Why do buyers pay nothing?
Because taxing buyers taxes offers, and offers are what a marketplace needs most. Buyers pay the sale price and run their own diligence on numbers read from the source; the single fee sits on the seller side, taken at closing. It is the standard of the serious e-commerce corridor (Flippa, Empire Flippers, Motion Invest all charge the seller, not the buyer).
What if my store does not sell?
You pay nothing. Listing is free, the fee only exists at closing. No upfront pack, no monthly cost, no risk to trying.
We found each other here. Can we just close privately to skip the fee?
You can try, but look at the real trade. Off-platform means a private APA from a lawyer ($1,500 to $3,000), setting up escrow yourselves, and the buyer carrying the full fraud risk while the seller carries the full non-payment risk, on a deal where you only met because we verified and introduced you. The 8% already includes escrow, the APA, verified numbers, qualification and transfer support. On most deals that is cheaper AND safer than doing it alone, for both sides. Deals started here are meant to close here (see our terms).
Is the 5% founding rate a trick that expires?
No. If your listing is among the first 50, it closes at 5% for the life of that listing, even if it sells months later. It is a real, dated launch advantage, not a countdown gimmick. Once the 50 spots are gone the standard 8% applies to new listings only.
Why is there an $800 minimum fee?
Because $800 is simply 8% of $10,000, the smallest sale we list. Inside our range the minimum never applies: you always just pay 8%. It exists so that the work every secure sale requires (source verification, contracts, Escrow.com closing, transfer support, 7-day inspection) is never done at a loss on a tiny deal. Below $10,000 we usually suggest bundling several stores into one sale. The first 50 founding listings pay 5% with a $500 minimum.
Why not deal direct
You could close off-platform to save the fee, but look at the real trade. Doing it alone means a private asset purchase agreement from a lawyer ($1,500 to $3,000), setting up escrow yourselves, the buyer carrying the full fraud risk and the seller the full non-payment risk, on a deal where you only found each other because we verified the numbers and introduced you. Our 8% already includes the Escrow.com closing, the APA generator, source-verified numbers, counterparty qualification and transfer support. On a $25,000 deal that is usually cheaper AND safer than going alone, for both sides.
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