How recommendations, calculations and research are produced

We use each provider's official pages, help articles and terms, and written confirmation from the provider when we have it. Every fact points to a source record with its address, publisher, what it supports, the date we checked it and any conflict with another source. The check date appears beside the fact wherever it is shown.

We do not use third-party reviews, forum posts or competitors' comparison pages as evidence of a provider's fees or rules. When one provider describes another, we treat that as a claim. When a provider's own sources disagree, we show both and do not quietly pick one.

A provider's claim

What a provider says about itself, such as a fee or a screening step. We report it with its source and date. It is not independent verification.

An inspected document

A record someone has actually examined, such as a profit and loss statement or a payout report. We do not inspect documents for readers.

Your assumption

A number you enter or choose, such as a sale price. Anything calculated from it is a scenario.

An observed outcome

Something that actually happened, such as a completed sale at a known price. We have no observed outcomes for the providers here, and we never present an asking price as a sale price.

The same five steps sit behind every comparison and, later, every tool on the site. Each finding gets one of five plain statuses, so you can see why an option fits or does not, and what would change the answer.

• Providers are listed alphabetically.
• Fit is judged only against published evidence: the services offered, the business types supported, eligibility screens and what you still have to do yourself.
• Whether a provider pays us is not an input. A provider that pays nothing stays visible when it fits.
• Unknown facts are shown as unknown. They never make an option look cheaper or simpler.

Which providers may pay us, and our current status with each, is on the affiliate disclosure.

The fee example uses Empire Flippers' standard published schedule: the greater of $10,000 or 15% of the first $700,000, plus 8% of the next $4,300,000, plus 2.5% above $5,000,000. It applies to the business sale price, excluding separately priced inventory.

• All arithmetic is done in whole cents. Each band's share is added up exactly, then rounded half up to the cent once.
• Rates are stored as basis points (1% is 100 basis points), so no rounding error creeps in.
• The result assumes an all-cash sale that completes, with no separately priced inventory, and comes before debt, tax and other transaction costs.
• A quoted or signed agreement with the provider overrides the published schedule.
• The calculation runs in your browser. The price you enter is never sent to us or to analytics.

Automated tests check the engine against the published examples ($50,000 → $10,000; $100,000 → $15,000; $1,000,000 → $129,000), the band boundaries, the $10,000 minimum, and zero or invalid prices.

Other providers' fee rules are recorded below. A rule is calculated only once it is fully published and covered by tests; until then the result is reported as unknown.

Provider data version

2026-10-24.1

Fee rules version

2026-10-24.1

Sources

23

Most recent source check

October 24, 2026

Oldest source check

October 24, 2026

• Listing figures. We do not check any seller's revenue, profit or traffic.
• How sales turn out. We have not bought or sold a business through these providers.
• Fees that are not fully published: Flippa's seller packages, FE International's advisory fees, and what buyers pay to access Empire Flippers and FE International listings.
• Which Acquire.com tier a price of exactly $250,000 falls in, since its own pages word the boundary differently.
• Whether Acquire.com pays any referral reward for buyers.

If a fact, date or calculation looks wrong, send it through the contact form with the reason Correction, and a link to the source if you have one. We recheck the source, fix confirmed errors, update the check date and record the change in the corrections log.