Equimeta Deal Room
Private horse sale management your sale, run cleanly.
For sellers handling their own sale without a sales barn or broker. List the horse, screen inquiries, agree on terms, accept held-funds payment through Stripe, and document the handoff — all in one shared record so the deal does not live in your phone's text history.
- Built for owner-sellers, not just sales barns
- Contact details protected until payment confirmed
- Held-funds payment — paid before handoff
- One shared record from inquiry to release
Every stage a private seller actually has to run.
A sales barn handles inquiries, contracts, and money for a commission. When you are selling the horse yourself, you run those steps — Equimeta gives you the workspace so they do not run you.
Listing & visibility
Build a listing once with photos, video, history, vetting notes, and price. The listing surfaces in search and category filters across the Equimeta marketplace — and you keep one canonical record instead of cross-posting to four sites.
Inquiry filtering
Inquiries land in a single inbox tied to the listing. You see buyer profile, prior platform activity, and intent answers before you reply — so you spend time on serious buyers and ignore the 'is the horse still available?' fishing.
Contact info protected
Your phone number and address are not exposed to the buyer until you choose to share them, or until a held-funds payment confirms. That removes the most common off-platform fraud vector for private sellers.
Agreed terms in one record
Price, included tack, transport responsibility, contingencies (PPE outcome, soundness window), and refund terms — agreed in writing inside the Deal Room. The buyer sees the same terms you sent, and both sides have the receipt.
Held-funds payment
Buyer checks out through Stripe; funds are held by Equimeta. You see the hold confirmed before you arrange transport — so you never load a horse on a stranger's word that the wire is on its way.
Fast payout on confirmation
Once the buyer confirms receipt under the agreed terms, Equimeta releases the held funds to your connected Stripe Connect bank account. Sellers typically receive their payout in 2–3 business days on eligible deals.
What private sellers ask before they list.
- What does it cost to list a horse?
- Listing is free on the Owner plan. Equimeta makes money on completed deals through the held-funds payment fee — see the pricing page for plan limits and the payment protection policy for the tiered fee schedule. There is no monthly subscription required to list a horse.
- Do I have to use the Deal Room and held-funds payment?
- No, but it is strongly recommended. The Deal Room workspace (messages, files, agreed terms) is available on every listing. Held-funds payment is opt-in at checkout. Sellers who skip held-funds give up the buyer-fraud protection and the documented payout timing.
- How do you screen buyers for me?
- Equimeta surfaces buyer profile, prior platform activity, and intent answers in the inquiry view. We do not pre-screen buyers for you the way a sales barn does — but the inquiry filtering, contact-info protection, and held-funds payment together remove most of the bad-actor patterns private sellers see on classified-style sites.
- Can my trainer or agent be part of the sale?
- Yes. Buyer agents and seller agents can be linked to the deal so representation is documented from the start. On eligible checkout, agreed commission can track in the same protected payment flow.
- What if the buyer ghosts after the PPE?
- If a buyer initiated a Deal Room and then disappears before paying, you simply continue marketing the horse — there is no hold on your listing until checkout. If a buyer paid (funds held) and then stops responding, the inspection-window timing and dispute path apply per the payment protection policy.
- Can I cross-post my horse to other sites?
- Yes. The Equimeta listing is canonical, but nothing prevents you from sharing the link or running the horse on other platforms. When a buyer is ready to commit, point them at the Equimeta listing and open the Deal Room there so the held-funds payment and agreed terms apply.
Run your sale like the barn would. Without paying for the barn.
List the horse, route inquiries through one inbox, agree on terms in writing, accept held-funds payment, and document the handoff — all in the Deal Room, all under your name.