Free extension for business-for-sale listings · Chrome and Edge

What the listing leaves out can cost you the deposit.
Get it on paper before you call the seller.

Open a business-for-sale listing and press “Download PDF”. You get a report on the 12 things a check of the business needs: what the listing says about each, and which ones it does not say. Save the ones you are serious about, from different sites, into one list that you open on your computer and on your phone.

On a phone? The extension works in Chrome or Edge on a computer. Send this page to yourself and open it there.

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No sign-up for the report. It is built in your browser: nothing is sent to make it.

Part of the PDF report on a restaurant listing in Canada: price 295,000 CAD; rent, lease, revenue, profit, the papers behind the figures, staff and licences not stated; for sale: the premises and the equipment
A saved copy of a real restaurant listing in Canada, and the PDF report the free extension made from it. Not a mock-up.

What it is for

Listings are written to sell.

A listing leads with the price and the photos. The rent, the lease, the papers behind the revenue and who is selling decide whether those figures hold, and the listing may leave them out. The extension lists what is missing before you spend an evening on calls, a trip to see the business, or a deposit — and keeps the listings you are weighing, from different sites, in one list.

What’s in it

1

A box on the listing.

When the extension spots a business for sale, a small box appears in the corner of the page. It tells you how many of the 12 things the listing answers — “The rest is what you ask the seller.” One button: “Download PDF”. The box opens in your browser’s language when the extension has it, and in English when it does not. Close it with ×, and it stays closed on that listing. No box? Press the extension icon, and the extension reads the page.

2

The report.

A PDF you keep, print or forward. At the top: the listing’s name, a link back to it and the date. Then twelve lines:

  1. legal name and tax number
  2. the premises address
  3. who is selling, the owner or an agent
  4. price
  5. rent
  6. how long the lease runs and whether it passes to you
  7. revenue, and for what period
  8. profit, and for what period
  9. the papers behind the figures
  10. staff
  11. licences
  12. what exactly is for sale: the premises and equipment, or the company itself.

Each line shows what the listing says, with amounts in the listing’s own currency. The extension does not guess: when the page is not clear, the line says “not stated”.

Then the lines the page does not say, as one list: what to ask the seller about. The report says plainly that it reads only the listing page and no official records, so every figure in it comes from the listing page. The last line shows what our €550 check would look up, with a link to order it. The file is named after the site and the date, so your reports sort themselves.

The end of the same report: “What stays unknown. The listing page does not say:” and nine lines, from legal name and tax number to licences and permits
3

The extension panel.

Press the round logo button on the listing, or the extension icon, and a panel opens at the side of the page. It shows the listing’s name and price when it has them, and gives you two buttons: a save button (“Save to my list” once your account is linked) and the link to our €550 check, with the listing already filled in. When the site’s page says a listing has been taken down, the panel tells you so before you call. Not read as a listing? You can save the page anyway: its link and title go on your list.

4

My list.

Every listing you are weighing, in one place. Found one business on one site and another on a second? Save each with one press on your computer, and they sit side by side in one account. Sign in to it on your phone, and the same list is there. No open tabs to keep track of, no bookmarks scattered across sites.

A check of what a saved listing says and leaves out, part of the free extension. When you save a listing the extension has read, its 12 points are saved with it. Its row in My list then carries a “Report (PDF)” button: the same report, built in the browser you are using, whenever you need it. On your phone too: sign in, and the extension is not needed. No button on the row of a listing on sale? Open the listing, and the box on the page gives you the report.

Saved listings. Each saved listing shows what the extension read on the page: the price, the city, the type of business and the site, with the day it recorded the listing. A page the extension did not read as a listing shows its title. From a site where My list keeps only the link, it shows the link. Each saved listing on sale also opens our €550 check with the listing filled in. Remove any of them with one press.

Sites where My list keeps the link only. A few sites do not allow us to keep copies of their pages. For those, My list keeps the link only, and the box on the page gives you the report as usual.

Other computers and your checks. On another computer, add the extension and sign in: the same list is there. The checks you order with the same email sit in the same account, under My requests, with where each one stands.

What it gives you

A button, not an evening
No copying listings into a spreadsheet or a chat. The report is ready when you press the button.
Know what to ask before the call
You see which of the 12 lines the listing does not say, so you ask the seller about those — not about what it already says.
The same 12 lines in every report
Put two businesses side by side and see at once which one leaves out the rent or the revenue.
What the listing said, on paper
The report keeps what the listing said, with its date and a link back. If the price or the revenue changes later, you have what was written.
A free check that stays in your account, on your phone too
Where the site allows it, each listing on sale that the extension has read keeps its 12 points in My list. Sign in and download the report again whenever you need it, without the extension.
Every listing in one place
Listings from the sites you found them on, in one account: open it on your computer, or sign in on your phone. No bookmarks scattered across sites.
No time on listings that are gone
The panel tells you when the site’s page says a listing has been taken down. You stop chasing a business that is no longer for sale.
Your language, or English
The box and the report open in your browser’s language when the extension has it, and in English when it does not.
We see only what you save or order
The report is built in your browser: nothing is sent to make it. We see only the listings you save, and a listing when you order a check on it.

What you get

The extension and its PDF report on a business-for-sale listing you open are free. Saving a listing takes a My list account. In it, the listings you save from different sites sit in one place. And when one is worth a deposit, our €550 check is one click away from the report, the panel or My list, with the listing already filled in.

Start in three steps

1

Add it to Chrome or Edge from the official store.

2

Open a business-for-sale listing.

3

Press “Download PDF” in the box on the page. No box? Press the extension icon, and the extension reads the page.

To keep a listing, press the round logo button or the extension icon. The first time, the panel asks you to link your My list account: your browser asks for access to our address, and a tab opens where you sign in or sign up and confirm the link. After that, press “Save to my list”. The report needs no account.

What it reads, and what it keeps

The report is built in your browser: nothing from the page is sent to make it.

On other sites, the extension looks at the title, web address and text of the page you open, on your computer, to spot a business for sale. That look sends nothing and saves nothing.

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. What else the extension sends us, and when, is in the privacy policy.

Whether or not you link it, we see a listing when you press the link to order a check on it. We never see the pages you merely open.

Remove the extension any time, and what it kept in your browser goes with it. Removing the extension does not delete your account: what we hold there stays until you delete the account. Removing a listing takes it off your list; its link stays in your account until you delete the account.

Permissions and full terms
Storage in your browser (storage)
Your saved listings, your settings, a count of the listings you opened, the boxes you closed, and the key that links the extension to My list. All of it stays in your browser.
The side panel (sidePanel)
The panel beside the listing, with its buttons: save, and order our €550 check.
The address and state of your tabs (tabs)
So the extension knows which listing you are on, and removes the panel when you leave it. It does not read what is in your other tabs.
A timer in the background (alarms)
Every six hours the extension checks whether a saved listing is due to be looked at again. It asks My list for your list at most once a day.
The tab where you press the icon (activeTab)
Pressing the extension icon asks it to read that page.
Adding the reader to a page (scripting)
So the extension can read a listing on a site it does not know yet.
All websites
When you add the extension, your browser says it can “read and change all your data on all websites”. On each page, a small script looks for words that say a business is for sale. It sends nothing out: only a message with no content, to the extension itself.
Optional: our address, my.provenancediligence.com
Asked only when you link My list. After that, what you save can go to My list.
Optional: one site at a time
Asked for one site at a time. Then the extension can look again at a listing you saved there; without your yes, it does not. Five sites whose terms do not allow it are never checked.
Messages from My list (externally_connectable)
Only the My list page can ask the extension to look at your saved listings now. Other sites get no answer.

Privacy · Terms

The report shows what the listing leaves out.
Our €550 check finds out the rest.

From the public records: which debts can follow the business under the rules where it is, and what decides whether the permit and the lease pass to you. Report in 24 hours on working days. We do not contact the seller. You pay only if we take it on.