Shopify Due Diligence
Receive a 21-point analysis of your Shopify business acquisition. Our goal is to minimize risks so you get the best deal. View a sample report.
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Our Due Diligence Service Eliminates Risks
Our team has performed due diligence on over 1,000 Shopify, e-commerce, and Amazon FBA businesses. We’ve scaled several businesses to over 7 figures.
We know how to perform due diligence. We find the pros and cons of each acquisition to save you from making a mistake.
What’s Covered?
We perform a rigorous 21-point analysis of your potential Shopify acquisition to give you the reassurance you need to proceed. We are practitioners running our portfolio of Shopify businesses. We catch red flags that others miss because we are in the trenches.
The report breaks down into the following sections:
Market
Most Shopify brands are based around a specific niche. We’ve analyzed Shopify businesses for sale in multiple different categories and understand the ins and outs when it comes to dealing with individual categories and market nuances. We look at:
Overall market size and trends
Positioning in the market
Main competitors
Product
Marketing can’t help you if you have a bad product. The more your product helps a specific pain point the more likely you’ll succeed. We look at:
Unit margins (gross profit margins)
USPs (unique selling points)
Suppliers
Shopify Operations
Even though people are at the heart of every company, systems allow it to scale and not break even if a staff member leaves. We analyze:
Shopify setup
Registered trademarks
Business model
Marketing
Your customer doesn’t care if you sell via SEO, PPC, email, or other channels. They care that they can purchase your products from where they like to shop. We analyze and put into context:
Revenue distribution
Sales channel performance
Growth opportunities
Fulfillment
To keep the customers happy they will be wanting to be kept in the loop throughout the shipping process, as well as speedy delivery. We look at:
In-house or via 3PL?
Couriers and rates
Return rates
Valuation
Valuation of Shopify businesses is based on a multiple of Seller’s Discretionary Earnings (SDE). Determining the valuation multiple is a critical factor that depends on the niche, market trends, trends, metrics, and more. We look for:
Evaluate asking price and multiple against market trends
Expert suggestions on what the business is worth
Ideal valuation structure of the deal (e.g., seller financing, performance payouts, SBA)
Finance
Once you’ve run an eCommerce business you know that cash flow is hard to keep control of and is one of the keys to success. We analyze:
Inventory value
P&L (Profit & Loss) review
Team
You can go faster alone but further together and as such you’ll need a team to help you achieve your goals. We analyze:
Team members and roles
Understaffing or overstaffing issues
The Due Diligence Team
Mushfiq Sarker, Lead Analyst
Mushfiq is the Lead Analyst overseeing due diligence reviews. He has been buying, growing, and selling online websites since 2008. He currently manages multiple 7-figure Shopify and e-commerce businesses.
He has performed due diligence on well over 1,000 businesses to date. He has kept up-to-date with the current industry as an operator running his own companies.
David Holmes, Ecommerce Advisor
David has acquired, grown, and successfully exited 2 Amazon-based businesses. He now consults for multiple 7-figure Amazon FBA brands.
David acquired a declining Amazon FBA business in January 2020. By revitalizing the listing, the Amazon ad strategy, and the supply chain, he grew revenue 500% in the next 12 months while reducing the cost of goods sold. He ultimately sold that brand in September 2022 to a private buyer.
David has deep expertise in Amazon FBA’s ecosystem.
Elliott Davidson, Ecommerce Advisor
Elliott is an award-winning eCommerce consultant and entrepreneur. He is the owner and operator of several 7-figure online stores and the founder of his own eCommerce digital marketing agency, Contrast.
With over 8 years of experience in digital marketing both in-house and agency-side, he’s helped deliver successful website migrations and implement scalable PPC sales funnels for local and global eCommerce businesses, all the way to generating multi-millions in organic revenue.
One of his main growth strategies is to leverage M&A. Over the last several years he has used this method and bought several businesses from IP, stock, and LTD purchases.
Testimonials
We hired Mushfiq’s team to perform due diligence on various content sites. Their reports were extremely thorough and pointed out insights that helped us make an acquisition decision.
The Wisdom Group
The WebAcquisition team helped us perform due diligence reviews on multiple Amazon FBA businesses. We received an actionable report with many insights. I highly recommend Mushfiq and his team!
Venturr.io
WebAcquisitions was fast, responsive, and most competitively priced. Turning around my report in only 5 days, they are one of the few firms that do a thorough SEO assessment as well as validating revenues. Mushfiq’s experience allowed us to catch things that weren’t on our radar.
Jasmine Grainger
I hired the WebAcquistion team to perform due diligence on a few content, Shopify, and newsletter businesses. Their deep expertise in operating such businesses definitely shows in the reports. Recommended!
Indexsy
WebAcquisition team performed a due diligence review of a content website we wanted to acquire from Empire Flipper’s brokerage. They reviewed everything related to the website and provided insights that have helped us make a decision. Recommended!
My consultation with WebAcquisition was very valuable and insightful. I was seeking feedback on potentially merging two sites into one and the conversation helped determine the best path forward, but also covered some other things like better monetization techniques. Extremely knowledgeable and experienced
Bryan May
Mushfiq and the team are experts and are always great to work with. Not only do they have a very quick turnaround on Due Diligence reports themselves (I’ve used them twice now for two successful purchases), Mushfiq is always available for follow-up questions. He is also extremely quick to respond. Would recommend.
Paragraph Capital
I was very happy with the [Amazon KDP] report as it opened my eyes and without question prevented me from making a big mistake.
The report covers everything and makes your decision a lot easier, the money is well spent.
I highly recommend WebAcquisition.
Henrik H.
The DD report was very informative, detailed, and expertly put together.
It was a valuable tool to help inform my decision on the [YouTube channel] business I was looking to acquire. It was money well spent considering the cost of the business I was looking to buy. I highly recommend their services.
Brian Alper
Pricing & Next Steps
Due Diligence Report: $2,900+
Our advisors will perform a 21-point analysis of your potential eCommerce acquisition. You will receive an in-depth PDF report. View a sample report.
Final pricing is dependent on the number of SKUs, brands, and complexity.
We deliver the results within 7 business days.
Fill out the contact form with basic details of the business you would like to acquire. We will follow up in less than 24 hours if we can perform the due diligence review.
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