Can you pass on your Amazon Seller balance when you die?
Amazon.com Services reviews requests about Amazon Seller balance after a death case by case.
Protecting Amazon Seller balance while the account is active
No beneficiary designation, balance can only be redeemed, not transferred, and 7-step plan.
How to protect your Amazon Seller balance while you are alive →Someone died. Handling Amazon Seller balance after a death
Transfer is handled on a case-by-case basis, 7-step process, and 4 required documents.
What happens to Amazon Seller balance when someone dies →Amazon Seller Central is the account a business or individual uses to sell products on the Amazon marketplace. Sales accumulate in the selling account and are settled to a registered bank account, and inventory can be stored in Amazon fulfillment centers under Fulfillment by Amazon.
Amazon.com Services decides what happens to Amazon Seller balance after a death case by case; its terms promise no transfer. Amazon.com Services allows no lifetime transfer of balance; the account holder can only redeem them.
What happens to Amazon Seller at death
- Case by case
Amazon handles a deceased account holder's situation individually through its Bereavement Support channel; the undisbursed balance and any stored inventory are recoverable, but only through that individual review.1
Naming who acts after a death
- Designation
There is no beneficiary designation for a selling account, and an heir does not simply take the account over.2
Amazon.com Services publishes its own process for a deceased person's account: Amazon Bereavement Support; a written request goes by email to bereavement-support-cs@amazon.com. There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on an Amazon Seller account.
Sources
Data sourced from Amazon.com Services LLC primary sources (5 pages reviewed). How we research.
Amazon Seller customer support
Amazon Selling Partner Support (inside Seller Central; requires an account sign-in)
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