How it works

The Exchange is a managed B2B marketplace for IT asset disposition (ITAD). K-12 was our launch wedge — schools struggle with the disposition process and residual recapture — but the same mechanics serve commercial off-lease, government surplus, and higher-ed refresh. School districts sell retired devices and buy graded refurbished laptops & tablets (Chromebooks today; MacBooks, iPads, and Windows laptops expanding through 2026) for next year’s refresh — both sides of the trade. Leasing remarketers liquidate off-lease commercial IT through the same managed pipeline — replacing spreadsheets and bilateral quote cycles with competitive bid discovery. Refurbishers source supply at fair market value and resell graded inventory back into the marketplace. The Hub — Offramp’s Approved Authenticator Network — sits between every transaction: sorting, photographing, certifying, routing freight, releasing payment. Buyers and sellers never see each other’s identities — preventing disintermediation.

💱Three ways to trade

The Exchange runs three parallel marketplaces, each designed for a different supply source and a different stage of the device lifecycle:

Sort & Settle

For raw, un-graded lots from schools and lessors

A school has 200 retired Chromebooks. They don’t know the grade mix. They submit the raw lot into a buyer’s standing offer (a per-grade price ladder with a guaranteed floor per piece). The Hub receives, sorts into Excellent / Good / Poor / Broken, photographs every pile, and the system settles automatically. The school is guaranteed at least the floor × total pcs. Lessors with mixed off-lease inventory use the same flow.

Chromebooks (graded marketplace)

Live order book for already-graded inventory

Refurbishers post asks (price × qty at a specific grade); buyers post bids. Crossing orders auto-execute. Buy Now lifts the lowest ask, Sell Now hits the highest bid — same mechanic as any modern marketplace. The Hub authenticates every fill.

Off-lease packages

For lessor-built SKU bundles bid by ITADs

A leasing remarketer has a 533-unit off-lease drop — mix of Chromebooks, ThinkPads, monitors, and docks. They build the package by picking SKUs from our catalog (or describing custom items by make, model, CPU, RAM, storage) and publish with a reserve price and a sealed or live bid window. Multiple ITAD merchants compete; the seller accepts the winner. Lot ships to Offramp’s Approved Authenticator Network— the Hub sorts, photographs every grade pile, generates NIST + VOSB certs, and settles the winning ITAD’s per-grade bid against actual sort counts. Anonymity preserved through settlement. Replaces the spreadsheet/email workflow leasing remarketers use today.

💰The fee waterfall

Every trade — raw or graded — runs through the same waterfall:

·Settlement total = goods value
·+ $25/unit authentication fee, paid by the buyer to Offramp Tech
·− 4% commission, deducted from the seller’s gross and paid to Offramp Tech
·Settlement is ACH or Net-30 PO (standard for K-12 and government procurement).

🏭What the Hub does

The Hub is operated by Offramp’s Approved Authenticator Network— a partner network of vetted ITAD facilities certified to sort, grade, and authenticate K-12 devices. It is the physical and procedural backbone behind every trade:

·Receives raw lots from selling schools
·Sorts each lot into Excellent / Good / Poor / Broken — with photo proof attached to every grade pile so the seller never has to take our word for the count
·Generates a NIST 800-88 data-destruction certificate for the seller — required for K-12 student-data compliance
·Generates a VOSB compliance stamp for the buyer — proves the channel for procurement audit
·Authenticates graded fills and releases the second freight leg

🔒Why buyers and sellers stay anonymous

The two parties to a trade never see each other’s identity. The Hub knows everyone; counterparties know nothing. This eliminates the most common failure mode of B2B marketplaces: parties trading once on-platform, then cutting the platform out of future deals. The same model powers dark pools and other anonymous B2B matching venues — the venue knows both sides; the parties don’t.

📦Volumes & minimums

Minimum order quantities scale by per-unit price (lower price → higher minimum, keeps freight efficient):

·Under $150/unit — 100-pc minimum
·$150 – $399/unit — 50-pc minimum
·$400+ /unit — 25-pc minimum
·Raw lots into Sort & Settle: 25-pc minimum regardless of price.

🎟️Pilot access

The Exchange is currently invite-only. If you’re a K-12 district, refurbisher, or recycler interested in joining the pilot, contact Offramp Tech and we’ll send you a magic-link sign-in.

Pilot · pre-launch · all data shown publicly is demo data.