SaaS Acquisition Checklist: Securing Digital Business Transfers

The Complexity of SaaS Transfers

Acquiring a Software as a Service (SaaS) business involves moving multiple complex pieces: codebases, domain names, hosting environments, and user databases. Without strict boundaries, these transfers can lead to disputes.

QaziLink offers a structured mediation platform designed to reduce common transaction risks by ensuring that eligible transactions are governed by defined transaction conditions.

Phase 1: Defining Digital Deliverables

A secure transaction must be based on exactly what is being handed over. Potentially verifiable digital deliverables for a SaaS acquisition include:

• Domain Name Transfer: Initiated and confirmed through the applicable registrar.
• Authorized Ownership Access: Authorized administrator or ownership access transferred according to the applicable platform's rules and transaction conditions.
• Source-Code Repositories: Transfer of GitHub/GitLab repository ownership.
• Codebase and Database Exports: Documented codebase exports and database exports where legally and technically appropriate.
• Documentation: Deployment and configuration documentation, along with any other agreed digital files.

Note: Do not include generic passwords or credentials as deliverables. Always utilize authorized role transfers and follow the relevant platform's security and Terms of Service requirements.

Phase 2: Verifying Business Metrics

When evaluating a SaaS business, buyers look at MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue), ARR, profit, churn, LTV, traffic, and customer counts.

Important: These are measurable business metrics, but QaziLink does not independently audit or verify their financial accuracy. Buyers should independently verify financial and business claims before defining transaction conditions.

QaziLink's mediation must remain focused on defined digital deliverables, not financial performance claims or guaranteeing future business success.

Phase 3: Legal Entity vs. Digital Assets

Users must clearly distinguish the transfer of digital assets from corporate legal matters. QaziLink does not provide legal advice, corporate-transfer services, or manage the transfer of:

• LLC or corporation ownership.
• Employee contracts or contractor agreements.
• Debt or business liabilities.
• Taxes.
• Intellectual property ownership disputes or trademark filings.

Phase 4: Structured Mediation

By using defined transaction conditions, QaziLink provides a clear path for the transfer. Funds are secured while the defined digital deliverables are verified. We do not independently validate the business quality, security, revenue, customers, code quality, or future performance of the SaaS business.

For highly complex transfers, or if you are unsure whether the deliverables can be objectively verified, request a Support Review before proceeding.