What Is the Best Acquire.com Alternative?

Written by Christopher Krassnig - Founder - Kairos Exchange and ZenoX Media.

Published 5 September 2026

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The strongest Acquire.com alternatives for an ecommerce or Shopify store are Empire Flippers and Website Closers for six- and seven-figure brands, Flippa for lower-priced listings, and Kairos for Shopify sellers. Acquire.com lists mostly SaaS and startup deals with a 6 to 8 percent closing fee, so it rarely fits an ecommerce seller. Which one fits depends on your store's size and how much vetting you want already done.

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What Acquire.com Actually Charges

Acquire.com's own seller pricing publishes a monthly listing fee of 25, 50, or 100 dollars depending on your asking-price band, plus a closing fee of 8 percent under 250,000 dollars, 7 percent up to a million, and 6 percent above that. Buyer access is paid too: premium buyer plans run 390 to 1,990 dollars a year. The homepage advertises thousands of vetted businesses and more than 2 billion dollars in verified buyer funds, without linking to a page that names what either check actually covers. None of that is dishonest. It just means a Shopify seller comparing venues is reading a SaaS-first marketplace's own numbers, not an ecommerce-native one.

Where Empire Flippers and Website Closers Fit

Empire Flippers charges no listing fee and takes a flat 10,000 dollar commission on sales up to 66,666.66 dollars, then 15 percent up to 700,000 dollars, 8 percent up to 5,000,000 dollars, and 2.5 percent above that. Their own worked example prices a 1,000,000 dollar sale at a 129,000 dollar commission. That schedule and their curated catalog fit an established, already-profitable ecommerce brand well. Website Closers works the other end of the same segment: its own fee page names an industry range of 4 to 10 percent for a business broker but never states its own commission, deals are broker-negotiated, and the firm positions itself from around 1 million dollars up, success-based only. Both are real alternatives to Acquire.com for ecommerce, just not for a smaller or newer store.

Where Flippa and Motion Invest Fit

Flippa is the widest catalog and the lowest barrier to list: packages run 29 to 699 dollars by price tier, non-refundable, plus a flat 10 percent success fee on every tier. It covers ecommerce stores at any price point, so it is a genuine Acquire.com alternative for a smaller Shopify seller. Motion Invest looks similar on paper, free to list with a success fee that slides from 20 percent under 20,000 dollars down to 5 percent past 500,000 dollars, but it only takes content and affiliate sites. An ecommerce store with real inventory and ad spend does not belong there, whatever the fee schedule says.

Where Kairos Fits for a Shopify Store

Kairos is the option built around Shopify from the start rather than adapted to it. Listing is free, and a store's revenue gets reconciled against its own read-only Shopify order data before the listing ever goes live, so the checking happens up front instead of landing on the buyer later. The self-serve fee is 5% at close, with a EUR 500 minimum, so a store that never sells costs nothing. It is not the biggest catalog, and it has no track record of closed sales to point to yet. What it offers instead is a verification step built from the store's own order data rather than a person's read of a P&L or an account-access review, done before a buyer ever sees the numbers.

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Closing is the point in an online-store sale where the deal legally completes: the asset purchase agreement is signed, every asset has moved, and escrow releases the price to the seller.

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