How Long Is the Transition Period After Selling a Store?
Written by Christopher Krassnig - Founder - Kairos Exchange and ZenoX Media. Last reviewed 19 July 2026.
Most online-store deals include 30 to 90 days of seller support after closing: handover calls, introductions to suppliers, and help while the buyer learns the store. The scope should be written into the purchase agreement, with hours and channels agreed, so support ends by design instead of by burnout.
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What Good Support Covers
The knowledge that never made it into documentation: why the winning ad works, which supplier contact actually answers, what the December rhythm looks like, where the bodies are buried in the returns process. A seller who documents these before closing shortens their own transition and earns a cleaner exit.
Where the Edges Sit
Transition support is teaching, not employment. The seller does not run the store, own its results, or absorb its new-owner mistakes, and the purchase agreement should say so in those words. Open-ended availability sours both sides; a defined window with defined hours keeps the relationship worth having.
How Kairos Handles It
Post-close support on Kairos is a named person, not a ticket queue, and it stays until the handover is actually done rather than until a clock runs out. The transition terms both sides agreed sit in the deal record, so what was promised is never a memory contest.
Buying a Store Somewhere Else?
Kairos Due Diligence works on any deal - Flippa, a broker, a private sale. A person reads the store's raw numbers and writes you a report. If the deal is bad, the report says walk away. From EUR 1.5K, no account needed.
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