Paid only when a deal closes
Every Fee, up Front
No listing fee. Checking your numbers is free and always will be. If a deal never closes, you never owe us a success fee - full stop.
Two Lanes, Your Call
Two lanes, and you pick. Each lane has its own price.
Self-serve
Success fee5%
of the sale price, at close. Minimum EUR 500.
You run the sale yourself. We check the numbers, host the deal room, and put the money through escrow. Open at every price, with no floor.
Full-service
Success fee12%
on the first EUR 500,000, then 9% above. Minimum EUR 10,000.
We run the sale for you: buyer outreach, negotiation, and the paperwork. You can choose it from EUR 100,000 up. Nobody gets put in this lane.
You pay a success fee when a deal closes and money moves. Never before that. No listing fee, ever, and checking your numbers against real orders is free. The one thing you can buy up front is Kairos Verified, where a person does the due diligence by hand - and its price comes off your success fee at close.
What You'd Actually Keep
Type your own price. Fee, effective rate, and what lands in your account, for every lane it qualifies for - the same arithmetic a real deal runs on.
Self-serve
- Success fee
- - EUR 25,000
- Effective rate on your price
- 5%
- Escrow provider fee (your 50% share, demo estimate)
- - EUR 1,750
- You keep
- EUR 473,250
Full-service
- Success fee
- - EUR 60,000
- Effective rate on your price
- 12%
- Escrow provider fee (your 50% share, demo estimate)
- - EUR 1,750
- You keep
- EUR 438,250
Escrow.com charges its own small fee, about 0.7% of the sale. Buyer and seller split it 50/50 on either lane, and it never runs through Kairos.
The One Thing We Charge for Before a Deal Closes
Checking your numbers against real orders is free, forever. Putting a person on your store for days is not. So that part is a service you buy, and it is the only thing on this page you pay for up front.
Under EUR 100K
- Seller: Kairos Verifiedcredited back at close
- Not sold - Data Verified is free
- Buyer: Kairos Due Diligenceany store, anywhere
- EUR 1.5K
- Who does it
- Accountant-led
EUR 100K up to EUR 500K
- Seller: Kairos Verifiedcredited back at close
- EUR 2.5K
- Buyer: Kairos Due Diligenceany store, anywhere
- EUR 2.5K
- Who does it
- Accountant-led
EUR 500K up to EUR 2M
- Seller: Kairos Verifiedcredited back at close
- EUR 5K
- Buyer: Kairos Due Diligenceany store, anywhere
- EUR 5K
- Who does it
- M&A analyst-led
Above EUR 2M
- Seller: Kairos Verifiedcredited back at close
- We'll quote it
- Buyer: Kairos Due Diligenceany store, anywhere
- We'll quote it
- Who does it
- M&A analyst-led
Sellers: it comes back at close
Kairos Verified is paid up front and taken off your success fee when the store sells. Sell it, and the badge cost you nothing. It is available on stores priced at EUR 100,000 or more - below that, Data Verified is free and it is enough.
Buyers: it never comes back, and it shouldn't
A report on someone else's store is not credited against anything, because we take no fee on that deal - we are working for you and nobody else. If we tell you to walk away, that is the report doing its job. How it works
Free to Look. The Deposit Comes with the Offer
Browse + NDA
Free. Sign one global NDA and you can browse every listing on the marketplace.
Verify your funds
Free, and it is what opens the full financials. Verify once and every listing you unlock after that opens at no charge.
Back an offer
EUR 250 refundable deposit, held when you submit an offer. It comes back if the offer is withdrawn, declined, or loses, and it comes off the price at close.
What the Fee Buys, and What Leaving It Costs
The fee is paid once, at close. This is what it buys - and what walking off the platform gives up.
What the fee buys
- Numbers verified from real order data, not a seller's word.
- A deal room with a shared, time-stamped record both sides can trust.
- Licensed third-party escrow - the money is protected until the transfer is done.
- A step-by-step transfer playbook so nothing critical gets missed.
- Someone to call if the deal hits a problem.
What closing off-platform costs
- No escrow - you wire money on trust alone.
- No verified numbers - you are back to screenshots.
- No transfer playbook - you improvise the handover.
- No recourse - if it goes wrong, you are on your own.
Where Your Money Goes
The purchase price sits with Escrow.com, a licensed third-party escrow provider. Deposits and invoices go through Stripe. Kairos never holds the purchase price. Our fee is deducted automatically at closing, straight out of the escrow transaction, and only after the deal actually closes. Escrow.com charges its own small fee, about 0.7% of the sale. Buyer and seller split it 50/50 on either lane, and it never runs through Kairos.
No Fee Until a Deal Closes
Browsing is free and the math above is public. Join the seller waitlist and we will tell you the day listings open. You pay when your deal closes, not before.
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