BizBuySell & BizQuest Monitor: Deal Alerts & Price Drops

What does BizBuySell & BizQuest Monitor do?

BizBuySell & BizQuest Monitor watches your saved business-for-sale searches on BizBuySell and BizQuest and alerts you to new listings, asking price drops or increases, and cash flow, revenue or EBITDA changes. Every alert is structured JSON with the previous and current values, the change, and the original listing link.

The first run creates a baseline and returns the matching listings. Later runs return only what changed, so you can schedule it daily or weekly and get deal alerts instead of re-reading the same listings. It works as a BizBuySell scraper and BizQuest scraper with change tracking built in.

Why use this business-for-sale monitor?

• 🔔 Change alerts, not just a list. Event types: new_listing, price_reduced, price_increased, financial_changed, entered_search, left_search.
• 💰 Deal financials. Asking price, cash flow (SDE), revenue and EBITDA as numbers, with unknown values left as null, never zero.
• 🔗 Source links. Every alert includes the original marketplace URL to verify the deal.
• 🎯 Buyer filters. Location, industry, asking price range and minimum cash flow, or paste exact marketplace search URLs.
• 🗓️ Built for schedules. A stable saved search keeps its history across runs, and unchanged runs produce no repeated alerts.

Use cases

• Search funds, independent sponsors and individual buyers tracking acquisition targets
• Business brokers and M&A advisors watching competing listings and price cuts
• Private equity and family offices monitoring small-business deal flow by region or industry
• Feeding deal alerts into a CRM, Google Sheets, Slack or an AI agent

How to monitor BizBuySell and BizQuest listings

1. Click Try for free or Start to open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Set your location, industry, price range and minimum cash flow. For a narrow search, paste the marketplace's search URLs into sourceUrls.
3. Keep a stable searchId and stateStoreName so later runs reuse the same baseline.
4. Start with three listings per source and detail enrichment on. Check the Run health and coverage output and the source links.
5. Save the input as an Apify Task and add a daily or weekly Schedule, leaving enough time for each scan to finish.

Input

Example buyer input:

{
  "searchId": "texas-restaurants",
  "stateStoreName": "buyer-deal-monitor-state",
  "sources": ["bizbuysell", "bizquest"],
  "location": "Texas",
  "industry": "Restaurants",
  "maxAskingPrice": 750000,
  "minCashFlow": 100000,
  "includeUnknownFinancials": false,
  "emitInitialListings": true,
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxListingsPerSource": 3,
  "bizbuysellCollector": "parseforge",
  "bizquestCollector": "memo23",
  "providerMaxChargeUsd": 1,
  "providerTimeoutSecs": 180
}

• A cash flow threshold excludes listings whose cash flow is unknown. Set includeUnknownFinancials: true to let those through (they stay null).
• Listing limits apply before local filtering, so a strict search can return fewer matches than the limit.
• Changing search criteria or source URLs creates a separate baseline.
• Supported category routes keep their scope separately from the listing's disclosed industry; categories are never guessed from promotional text. For other categories, paste the marketplace search URL and leave industry blank.
• providerMaxChargeUsd caps each source's collector run (default $1). providerTimeoutSecs bounds each collector run.

Output example

One real alert from run FTE6B7UJMdwmInhcX (Oct 13, 2026), trimmed to the main fields:

{
  "eventType": "new_listing",
  "searchId": "review-0401cf56",
  "observedAt": "2026-10-13T18:41:27.167Z",
  "listingId": "bizbuysell:2507134",
  "listing": {
    "source": "bizbuysell",
    "url": "https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/established-30-year-commercial-plumbing-and-hvac-company/2507134/",
    "title": "Established 30+ Year Commercial Plumbing & HVAC Company",
    "location": "Williamson County, TX",
    "askingPrice": 8500000,
    "cashFlow": 1178697,
    "revenue": 6500000,
    "ebitda": null
  },
  "previous": null,
  "current": {
    "askingPrice": 8500000,
    "cashFlow": 1178697,
    "revenue": 6500000,
    "ebitda": null
  },
  "changes": {}
}

Each alert also includes schemaVersion, a deterministic eventId, scopeKey, runId and observation timestamps. changes gives previous and current values, the delta and the percent change for each affected field. previous is null on a newly observed listing.

Output	What it contains
Deal change alerts	Default dataset: one event per changed matching listing, including all financial changes
Run health and coverage	Source status, collection limits, collector runs, and whether monitoring state was preserved
Observed listings	Normalized observations from this run, including nonmatching records
Saved search settings	Search criteria and original source URLs

Export alerts as JSON, CSV or Excel, read them through the Apify API, or use a run-succeeded webhook to notify your own system (add a failure notification too). Deduplicate by eventId, because interrupted delivery can be replayed. The Actor does not send email itself.

How much does it cost to monitor BizBuySell and BizQuest?

The monitor's pricing is $0.14 per delivered change alert ($140 per 1,000) plus $0.05 per monitoring run. A run with no changes costs only the run fee plus collection costs. For example, a run that delivers six alerts costs $0.89 in monitor fees.

Collector fees are additional. By default the monitor calls ParseForge's BizBuySell collector and Memo23's BizQuest collector on your account, and their own pricing applies. providerMaxChargeUsd defaults to $1 per source's collector run, so a scan of both sources allows up to $2 in collector charges. That is a cap, not a price quote. Scheduled runs use credits even when nothing changes, so choose an interval and listing caps that fit your budget. Check the Pricing tab for current monitor rates.

FAQ

How often should I run it?

Daily or weekly works for most buyers. Each scheduled run costs the run fee and collection costs even when nothing changes.

Does it cover every listing on the marketplace?

No. Scans capped at a few listings per source are a sample, not complete marketplace coverage. A listing that first appears in your sample is "newly observed" by your search; that is not its marketplace publication date.

Does it detect removed or sold listings?

Removal detection is disabled, because a failed, blocked or incomplete scrape cannot prove a listing was removed. A source failure keeps its monitoring history, and a complete source failure makes the run fail visibly.

Are the financials verified?

No. Asking price, cash flow, revenue and EBITDA are seller-supplied marketplace figures, not audited statements. EBITDA is kept separate from cash flow. Always check the original listing before making an acquisition decision.

Was it tested?

The tested workflow collected both marketplaces, kept the same saved search across runs, and returned no repeated alerts for unchanged listings. A controlled test with deliberately simulated previous values verified price and financial change alerts; that was not an actual market change.

Something broke or a field is missing?

Open an issue on the Issues tab with your input (you can remove private details).

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