Documentation

Buying & selling apps

ForGrit’s marketplace lets you buy, sell, and transfer real software assets — not just prompt starters. Examples are prompt starters and generated previews; starting from an example creates a new app with its own design DNA. Marketplace listings, by contrast, are real software assets that can be bought, sold, and transferred through a reviewed ownership workflow.

Users cannot directly publish apps or organizations for sale. Sellers submit listings to ForGrit for review, and approved listings may become visible in the marketplace. Sellers must have the rights to sell the app, organization, code, content, data, and related assets they list.

What transfers on a sale

Full ownership of the asset, including source code, deployment configuration, approved access credentials, access rotation steps or transfer instructions where applicable, approved repository access, customer data (where lawful and disclosed), domain records where included, and associated marketplace revenue history and transfer documentation.

The full terms are set out in the Purchase & Transfer Agreement, which both the buyer and seller accept as part of the transfer workflow.

How a transfer works

Ownership transfer is completed only through the approved ForGrit transfer workflow. A buyer does not receive ownership until the required review, payment, transfer, and release steps are complete.

Handover checklist

The seller completes the transfer checklist — repository, environment, credentials, customer data, and domain — so the buyer receives everything the listing described.

Inspection window

After payment, the buyer has an inspection window to verify the asset matches the listing. During this window the buyer may release funds or open a dispute.

Technical noteOn release, ownership and all rights pass to the buyer and a Transfer Certificate is issued. The seller must cease use of the asset and any transferred credentials.

See the Purchase & Transfer Agreement for the full handover and inspection terms.

Protected hold

For marketplace purchases, the buyer’s payment or platform credits are held in a protected hold workflow by ForGrit until the transfer reaches the applicable release condition — the buyer confirms handover, or the inspection window closes without a dispute. This protects both sides: the buyer isn’t charged for an asset they never receive, and the seller has a defined path to payout once handover is confirmed.

ForGrit review does not guarantee future revenue, traffic, buyer satisfaction, or app performance.

Read the full Refund & Protected Hold Policy for how the hold is applied.

Refunds & disputes

If a dispute is opened during the inspection window, ForGrit mediates it. Outcomes are recorded in the ledger and can be one of four things:

• Full refund — credits are returned to the buyer, the hold is cleared, and there is no seller payout.
• Partial refund — a portion of the funds is returned to the buyer.
• Release to seller — funds are paid out to the seller and there is no refund.
• No action — the dispute is closed with no change to the hold.

This is separate from build credits: credits spent generating apps are consumed on use. If ForGrit fails a paid generation step, the credits for that failed step are returned to your balance. Purchased (top-up) credits are otherwise non-refundable except as required by law.

Full detail on dispute handling and payouts is in the Refund & Protected Hold Policy.

Seller verification

As a marketplace that facilitates seller payouts and high-value asset transfers, ForGrit is required to perform identity (KYC) and anti-money-laundering (AML) checks. Verification may be required before seller payouts, high-value listings, organization transfers, or suspicious-activity reviews.

Sellers must complete identity verification and provide a verified payout method before released funds become withdrawable earnings. Enterprise organizations may additionally require business verification.

Technical noteReleased funds become available seller earnings, net of the platform commission, withdrawable via the approved seller payout workflow subject to KYC/AML verification and minimum payout thresholds.

See the Seller Verification & KYC/AML Notice for what’s collected and when it applies, and the Terms of Service for the platform-wide marketplace rules.