Haubot services overview
The four managed services Haubot offers — Inspect, SecureTrade, Logistics and Financing — what each one does, and when reaching for one is worth it.
Most of Haubot is self-serve: you list, you search, you message, you transact. The services covered in this section are different — they are managed, opt-in layers you add when a deal is big enough, far enough away, or complicated enough that the self-serve path isn't sufficient on its own.
There are four of them, and each answers a different question.
The four services
| Service | The question it answers |
|---|---|
| Haubot Inspect | Is the asset actually what the listing says it is? |
| SecureTrade | How do we move money safely when neither side fully trusts the other yet? |
| Logistics | How does the asset physically get from where it is to where it needs to be? |
| Financing | Can this transaction be financed — and what would a finance-ready case look like? |
They are independent. You can use one, several, all four, or none. A local cash purchase of a familiar machine from a known dealer needs none of them. A cross-border, financed purchase of a used aircraft component from an unfamiliar seller might reasonably touch all four.
They are optional
None of these services is mandatory to use Haubot. The platform — listings, UnitVault, search, messaging, auctions — works without them. The services exist for the transactions where informal trust, a phone call and a bank transfer aren't enough.
A few are recommended in specific situations (SecureTrade for high-value cross-border deals, an inspection before a large auction bid), and a specific listing or auction can require one under its own terms — but that is the exception, not the default.
They can be standalone or transaction-integrated
Each service can be ordered two ways:
- Standalone — for a deal or an asset that has nothing to do with Haubot. You can commission an inspection of a machine you found elsewhere, ship cargo that was never listed here, structure a privately negotiated transaction through SecureTrade, or ask Financing to look at a deal that never touched the platform.
- Transaction-integrated — wired into a Haubot listing, auction or managed deal, so the documents, milestones and timing line up with the transaction in one workflow.
How they fit together
The services are designed to compose:
- Inspect produces the factual condition record.
- SecureTrade can make a passing inspection a release condition before funds move.
- Logistics can align fund release with real loading and delivery milestones.
- Financing can sit underneath the whole thing — and the inspection report, the documentation and the logistics plan are exactly what a finance-ready case is built from.
For a high-value cross-border auction win, that chain looks like: assess whether it's financeable → inspect the asset → secure the funds → release against inspection and loading evidence → transport under coordinated logistics → close. Each link is optional; together they turn a risky handshake into a structured process.
Where to go next
- Haubot Inspect — independent on-site inspection and condition reporting.
- SecureTrade — managed transaction protection and controlled fund release.
- Logistics — transport coordination for machinery and industrial assets.
- Financing — financing coordination for real-asset transactions.
Each article here is the practical, docs-level summary. The full service pages live under /solutions — /solutions/inspections, /solutions/securetrade, /solutions/logistics and /solutions/financing — with the complete scope, use cases and FAQs.