When a plumbing business changes hands
Selling a plumbing company? Keep the job history in the deal
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A plumbing firm's job history is easy to lose in a sale: the software subscription ends and the export window closes. It can travel with the business or be licensed on its own.
Agree who keeps the right to license
The buyer of a plumbing business and the buyer of a data licence want different things. Write into the sale terms whether the seller keeps the right to license a copy of the job records, and take a full export while the account is still open.
Where plumbing records like these go
None of the buyers whose pages we read is a plumbing specialist. Polyshares says it buys and licenses the operating record from the company that produced it, Mode says it pays for the operating history a business owns, and LicenseMyData lists wind-downs, administrations and estates among its work.
Source: Polyshares track record
Start with the outline
Give us the system, the years of jobs and where the sale stands, and we will tell you what a licence of the records would involve.