Software business brokers: what they charge to sell a business

Firms in this segment

A firm appears here when its own live page says it sells businesses of this kind, and the fee beside it is what that page said on the date shown.

Choosing a firm to sell a software business

Match the firm to the size. The published rates fall as the price rises, Acquire.com goes from 8% to 7% to 6% across its bands, and above a few million dollars the buyer is usually a fund and the process stops looking like a marketplace at all.

Ask what the advisory tier costs. Acquire.com's advisory service for SaaS founders is a different engagement from a self-service listing, and the published band rates are for the latter.

Retention and churn are diligenced before anything else, so have twelve months of cohort data and payment-processor access ready. Buyers who cannot verify revenue quickly discount it rather than asking twice.

Website Closers publishes the shape and not the number: a 100% success-based model with no upfront fees or retainers. That is a real term and it is not a price, so it has to be asked for.