How do I list my business for sale?

Getting a business listed on Deavo follows a defined sequence rather than one long form. Knowing the steps in advance makes it faster to put together a listing that actually represents the business well and gets found by the right buyers.

Step one: create an account and describe the business

Start by creating an account, then enter the business’s core details: its industry, general location, a description of what it does, and the financial picture a buyer needs to gauge basic fit. This information forms the full listing, most of which stays gated until a buyer clears the non-disclosure step.

Step two: build the public teaser

A short public teaser is drawn from the listing to give buyers enough to decide whether to inquire, without naming the business or revealing its exact address, since every listing is blind by default. The teaser, alongside the industry intelligence panel that populates automatically from the business’s category, is what most buyers see first.

Step three: choose what stays public versus gated

Decide which photos to leave public and which to mark hidden, following the same logic used across the platform: most images can stay visible, and only the ones that would genuinely identify the business need to be gated behind the non-disclosure step alongside other sensitive detail.

Step four: publish, at no cost

Publishing does not require paying anything, consistent with Deavo being free to use in its current version, with no listing fee and no charge to manage the listing afterward. The listing still goes through the platform’s own screening step before it becomes visible to buyers.

Step five: manage interest as it comes in

Once published, review buyer inquiries as they arrive, and respond to the ones that look genuine. Deeper access unlocks for a buyer only once they sign the non-disclosure agreement, so you retain control over who actually sees identifying detail, even after the listing is live and being viewed.