Somebody offered for a piece of yours. Accepting is one action, and it does something slightly different from what you might expect.
Both buttons live on the offer itself, in your offers page and in your notifications.
What accepting actually does
It lists your piece at the agreed amount and tells the buyer they can complete the purchase. It does not move the piece and it does not pay you yet.
That extra step is what frees you from having to be there. The listing is a contract on the chain: the piece only leaves it by paying you exactly what was agreed, and you can cancel it whenever you want. The buyer needs no signature from you — so once you have accepted, you are done.
Because you are signing a listing, accepting asks you to unlock your wallet, like any other on-chain action. What you are signing is a listing at the agreed price, not a transfer — so check that the amount your wallet shows is the one you accepted, and cancel if it is not.
It is the same dialog you would get listing it yourself, with the agreed amount already in it:
Listing review
Service fees
0.000800 ($0.01)What you receive
The amount offered is what reaches you. The buyer pays the market fee and any royalty on top of it, as separate outputs — the same way a normal listing price works.
So you can read an offer as a net figure. Nothing is deducted from it afterwards.
What can stop you accepting
| If | Then |
|---|---|
| The offer has expired | It cannot be accepted, even if it is still on screen. Offers last seven days. |
| You no longer own the piece | The action is refused and the offer is left alone, on purpose — see below. |
| The piece is already listed by you | Cancel that listing first: its price is not the one you agreed. |
When ownership cannot be confirmed we refuse the action instead of tidying up the offer. Cancelling somebody's offer wrongly is far worse than a refusal you can report.
If the listing itself fails, the offer stays active. There is no half-accepted state that promises the buyer a purchase they cannot make.
The buyer has a window, and it is short on purpose
While the accepted sale is pending, the listing is kept out of Zoide's own market pages so it is not read by everybody as an open offer.
That reduces exposure; it does not reserve anything. A listing is a public contract on the chain, so completing it is not exclusive to the buyer: nothing is settled until somebody completes it. If a third party does it first, the offer closes and the buyer is told.
The piece keeps appearing in its collection while reserved, just not as purchasable: making an item vanish from a catalogue would be worse than the problem being avoided.
How to know it worked
The offer shows as accepted and the piece shows as listed at that price. When the buyer completes, the funds arrive at your payment address and the piece leaves your wallet.
If nothing happens, you keep a listing at the agreed price and can cancel it like any other.
Related
- Make an offer on a piece — the same flow from the other side
- Offer states, and the rule that surprises everybody
- Fees — who charges what