What My list does with the businesses you save
By Grig Kochedykov · . Product facts reviewed against our live My list, account, extension and pricing pages on 29 October 2026.
If you look for a business on more than one site, you soon lose track of which one was which. My list is one place to keep them: save a listing from different sites with one press, and it sits next to the others. From the list, you can also open the order form for a check, with the listing already filled in.
Below: what the list holds, a way to use it during a search, and what it does not do.
What My list holds
| What you need during a search | What My list does |
|---|---|
| Businesses from different sites | Keeps them side by side in one account |
| The basics of each business | Shows its link, the site it is on, the price and the town |
| A page that is not a standard listing | Keeps its link and title |
| The seller's page again | Reopens the listing in one click |
| Your list away from your desk | Sign in on your phone or on another computer, and the same list is there |
| The checks you order | With the same email, they sit in the same account, under My requests, with where each one stands |
| A check on one business | Opens the order form with the link, your name and your email filled in |
How to use it during a search
- Add our extension to Chrome or Edge on a computer. An extension is a small add-on to your browser; ours reads business-for-sale listings. Your list also opens on a phone, but saving happens on a computer.
- Open a listing. Press the round button with our logo on the page, or the extension icon in your browser's toolbar. The first time, a panel opens at the side of the page and asks you to link your My list account. After that, press “Save to my list”. Saving needs a sign-in, once on each computer.
- Save every business you might call about, whatever site it is on. Saving takes one press. Deciding comes later.
- Before each call, open your list and reopen the listing in one click. Press “Download PDF” on the page. You get a report on the 12 things a check of the business needs, with the ones the listing does not say. Those lines are your questions for that call.
- After the call, remove each business you have ruled out. One press takes it off your list. Its link stays in your account until you delete the account (see the last section). Your list then shows only the businesses you are weighing.
- For the business you would put a deposit on, open the order form from your list. The link, your name and your email are filled in. "No payment now: first we tell you whether we take it."
One listing, seven questions
In an earlier post we took apart a real restaurant listing in Canada. Seven of the nine lines of its report, from the price down, said "not stated": the rent, the lease, revenue, profit, the documents behind the figures, staff, and licences and permits. The listing gave only the price, 295,000 CAD, and what is for sale.
Saved in your list, that listing comes with seven questions before you dial. Save a second restaurant next to it. If its report states the rent and the revenue, you can compare the two on those lines before any call. For the first one, the same answers have to come from the seller, in writing.
What My list does not do
| It does not | What that means for you |
|---|---|
| Tell you whether the listing is true | It keeps what the seller's page said. The price in it is the seller's price. |
| Read public records | Who owns the business, which debts can follow it to you, and whether the lease and the permit pass to you are not in it. Public records and the rules of the place where the business is answer part of these questions: who is recorded as the owner, which debts are recorded, and which rules decide whether the lease and the permits pass. The rest, such as the terms of the lease, the landlord's consent and the seller's other contracts, is in the seller's papers or with the landlord. |
| Contact the seller | We do not contact the seller either. The €550 report works from the public records; the €950 report also reads the papers you send us. |
| Read every site in full | From a few sites, it keeps only the link. |
What we see, and what you can delete
- Until you link My list, the extension keeps no saved listings and cannot reach our server.
- After you link it, we see the listings you save, with what the page said on them.
- Linking takes a code and an explicit confirmation. One button unlinks every extension at once.
- A listing you remove leaves your list. Its link stays in your account until you delete the account.
- Deleting your account erases My list, what was recorded about your listings, the linked extensions and your sign-ins at once.
Your next three steps
- The extension. Add to Chrome — free or Add to Edge — free. More on our extension page.
- Your account. My list and the checks you order with the same email sit in one account. Create my account.
- The check. From our pricing page: "€550: from the public records, which debts can follow the business under the rules that apply where it is, and what decides whether the permit and lease pass to you". Start for €550. "€950: everything in the €550 report, plus the seller's figures checked against the seller's own papers — tax returns or the accounts the company filed." Start for €950. "You pay only if we take it on." Within 12 weeks of receiving the €550 report, pay the price difference for the €950 report: what you paid counts in full.
Sources
- Provenance Diligence, My list (retrieved 29 October 2026)
- Provenance Diligence, Free extension (retrieved 29 October 2026)
- Provenance Diligence, Your account (retrieved 29 October 2026)
- Provenance Diligence, Pricing (retrieved 29 October 2026)
- Provenance Diligence blog, Save a business listing before you call the seller (the restaurant listing in Canada) (retrieved 29 October 2026)