What Documents Do I Need to Sell My Ecommerce Store?
Written by Christopher Krassnig - Founder - Kairos Exchange and ZenoX Media. Last reviewed 19 July 2026.
Selling an ecommerce store takes fewer documents than generic checklists suggest. You need twelve months of profit and loss, order and refund history, ad account exports, supplier agreements, and a list of every asset that transfers. Direct read-only access to Shopify and the ad accounts replaces most of the paper stack. Buyers trust source systems over spreadsheets.
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The Core Pack
Monthly profit and loss for at least a year with add-backs stated, order and refund exports straight from the platform, ad spend by month per account, supplier agreements with transferability noted, and the asset schedule: store, domain, ad accounts, email list, content, social. A buyer who gets this on day one moves twice as fast.
What Access Replaces
Generic M&A checklists run to dozens of documents because offline businesses have no source systems a buyer can read. An ecommerce store does. Read-only access to orders and ad accounts, or a verification memo built from them, replaces the binder: the buyer stops auditing your spreadsheets and starts confirming reality.
The Deal Documents Themselves
Beyond your records, the transaction runs on three documents: the NDA before numbers move, the letter of intent that records the proposed price and structure, and the asset purchase agreement that closes it. Kairos LOIs do not grant exclusivity, so the seller may keep taking backup offers until the binding agreement replaces the proposal.
Answered. Now Get Your Numbers Proven
Sellers on the list go through verification first when we open. Reading up is step one. Having your revenue proven from your own orders is step two.