How EcomFlips works
Buying or selling a small ecommerce store shouldn't require blind trust in a stranger. Every EcomFlips deal follows the same five escrow-secured steps.
1. Introduction
Buyer opens an anonymous deal room on a vetted listing. Ask anything — metrics, ad accounts, suppliers. Identities stay hidden; all chat stays on-platform.
2. Agreement
Agree a price with the offer widget, then both parties click-accept the Transaction Agreement. Version, timestamp and IP are recorded for both signatures.
3. Secure payment
We create the escrow transaction as broker. The buyer pays the agreed price plus Escrow.com's fee (shown separately) into escrow — EcomFlips never touches the money.
4. Asset transfer
Only after funds are secured does the transfer checklist unlock: store, domain, ad accounts, socials, suppliers, email list. Every item is confirmed by both parties.
5. Release
The buyer gets an inspection window (48h under €5,000, 5 days above) to verify everything. Then funds release to the seller — minus our success fee — or a dispute freezes them for mediation.
Money never moves early
Assets stay put until the buyer's funds are secured in escrow. Sellers can't be scammed by fake payments; buyers can't lose money to ghosts.
Everything is on the record
Offers, agreement signatures, checklist confirmations and state changes are timestamped into an append-only audit log.
Disputes have a referee
Problems during inspection? The deal freezes, EcomFlips mediates with the full record, and the outcome executes through Escrow.com's dispute process.
Anonymous until it matters
Sellers list without telling the world. Buyers browse without revealing their hand. Identities surface inside the escrow transaction.
Fees, in one sentence
Sellers pay max(15% of the sale price, €500) on success only; buyers pay Escrow.com's secure payment fee, always shown as a separate line item before committing.