Buyer's EDGE Acquisition Center
The Buyer's EDGE Acquisition Center is EDGE Business Advisors' portal for buyers. Every business EDGE is bringing to market, the NDA signed online, the confidential information opened to you when the listing's advisor approves, the Business Target Manager to run your search on, the Acquisition Academy and the Growth Center, all at no charge. Two paid tiers inside it, Acquisition Center Pro and Guided Acquisition Search, add the tools EDGE's own advisors work from and, if you want one, an advisor in the portal.
Buyers pay nothing on an EDGE listing. Buyer Line: 404.940.5748
Four Ways to Buy With EDGE
$0, no term
$475 for 12 months; $475 to renew
$4,750 for 12 months; $3,750 to renew
$12,000 at signing, Guided included
On an EDGE listing, every buyer pays nothing: EDGE represents the seller. Single Transaction, on a business EDGE does not list: $500 (waived for Guided members), $2,500 if the seller accepts your LOI, and a commission of 4% of the first $1,000,000, 3% to $2,000,000, 2% above, $15,000 minimum.
Free for Every Buyer
Described without identifying the seller, with the figures the seller provided, the listing agent's name, photo and email, and the EDGE Buyer Line.
Three short questions about you, the agreement, your typed name. The listing's advisor approves, usually the same business day. A copy is emailed to you.
The CIM in the portal: the business, its financials, highlights, FAQ and more, with a PDF to download. Questions to the advisor beside it; your terms of interest on the listing.
Your search on one board: every business you are evaluating, from any source, grouped by stage, with your notes and your interest level. Free. Open a target to work it, and that is where the Center begins.
How a business is bought, in twenty steps, from the search thesis to the first year as the owner. Free to read, with the Business Credit course free inside it.
Open to every member: the shelf of tools for the business you will own, bought one at a time. The Marketing Blueprint is $275, yours for good.
The Case for Acquisition Center Pro
None of the four is a character flaw. All of them are expensive, and all of them happen before an attorney is involved. Here is each one, and the tool in the Analyst Toolkit that stops it.
The asking price is where the seller started. Buyers without an independent number treat it as the value, and the gap between the two is the most expensive thing in the deal.
The lender's view as a range, and the full method from EDGE's own presentation: normalise the earnings, choose the basis, apply the multiple, compare.
An add-back is a claim that an expense will not recur. Accept one that does and you pay a multiple on earnings that do not exist. On a three-times deal, a $10,000 add-back is $30,000 of price.
The statements in one standard format, the add-backs line by line, and the CIM read for its claims, gaps, risks and the questions to ask.
Terms sent before the structure exists are terms the buyer cannot take back. The bank's coverage test, not the price, decides what can close.
The capital stack with debt coverage, and a branded Bank Package for the lender: a business plan and a five year projection with year one by month.
The two things that most often change a price after acceptance: a lease that cannot be assigned on the lender's term, and one customer who is a third of revenue.
The lease reduced to the terms that matter; the revenue by customer and by channel, with the exposure shown.
On a business bought at three times earnings, one add-back of $10,000 that should not have been accepted is $30,000 of price.
A buyer who catches one pays for Acquisition Center Pro sixty times over. Acquisition Center Pro exists to catch the first one.
What Is Inside
The Business Target Manager is free; Acquisition Center Pro opens the full page behind each target: the analysis, the fit check, the request to an advisor.
On each business: value it with an SBA lender style range, structure it with a capital stack and debt coverage, build the Bank Package, and share terms of interest with an EDGE advisor.
Calculators, statement spreading, CIM review, valuation tools, lease abstracts, customer concentration, a business plan builder, a financial pro forma and more.
Businesses EDGE advisors flag for buyers, with one click to add to your board. Guided Acquisition Search adds an advisor sourcing against your own Roadmap.
Side by Side
| Free membership | Acquisition Center Pro | Guided Acquisition Search | Full Buyer Representation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $475 a year | $4,750 a year; $3,750 to renew | $12,000 at signing |
| Refund | n/a | 7 days | None | Per the agreement |
| Listings, the NDA, the confidential information, questions and terms | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Business Target Manager, your own board | Yes | Yes | Yes, attached to your engagement | Yes, your advisor's board |
| Work this deal on each target, the Analyst Toolkit | Locked | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Notable Deals | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| An EDGE advisor | The listing advisor, on EDGE listings | No | In the portal: Roadmap, sourcing, screening, replies within two business days | In person; EDGE runs the search |
| When a target is real | Single Transaction: $500 and $2,500 | Single Transaction: $500 and $2,500 | Single Transaction: $500 waived, $2,500 | Included |
| Commission at closing | 4% of the first $1,000,000, 3% to $2,000,000, 2% above, $15,000 minimum | Same | Same | 5% of the first $1,000,000, 4% to $2,000,000, 3% to $3,000,000, 2% above, $15,000 minimum |
| On an EDGE listing | Nothing | Nothing | Nothing | Nothing; EDGE represents the seller |
What buyers pay and do not pay, in plain language, is on our Fees page.
Your First Seven Days
Industries, geography, size, capital, on your board. Ten minutes; everything keys off it.
Add a business you have looked at, from any source.
The SBA Valuation Estimator and the Acquisition Calculator on that target.
The capital stack, the coverage, what is left over each year.
Build it once; send it to a lender when the business is real.
See what EDGE advisors have flagged against briefs like yours.
If it has not changed how you see that business, ask for the refund.
Before You Decide
Create your account, read the listings, sign an NDA, put your first target on the board. Acquisition Center Pro is one click on any locked page; Guided is one click more.
Buyer Line: 404.940.5748 | buyer.buyselledge.com