Planning ahead for your Bonanza account

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Bonanza Worldwide, LLC, 3131 Western Ave #527, Seattle, WA 98121

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HoursBonanza does not publish support hours. The support article directs members to email support@bonanza.com or use the "Contact" link at the bottom of any Bonanza page, and no general support phone line is published.

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Because Bonanza Worldwide, LLC reviews transfer requests on a case-by-case basis, there is no guarantee that account will be transferred after death. Lifetime planning reduces dependence on that outcome.

How to protect your Bonanza account

Here are 7 steps to protect and manage your Bonanza account while the account is active:

Record which payment processor your Bonanza booth pays into — your PayPal, Stripe, or Amazon Pay account — and the bank account linked to it, because Bonanza does not hold the money; sale proceeds are collected through that processor, not from Bonanza.

Note the Bonanza account email and User ID where your executor can find them, since Bonanza has no documented estate or beneficiary process and the account cannot be transferred or sold under the User Agreement.

Tell your executor that Bonanza charges the seller, not the reverse. Final Value Fees, the 25-cent per-sale transaction fee, the $0.03 per-listing monthly fee above 50 active listings, and any paid membership subscription are billed to a credit card on file that every seller account is required to keep, so a Bonanza account left running is a liability, not an asset. Flag which card is on file so your executor can reconcile the charges and cancel the subscription.

Do not treat Bonanza Tokens as something to leave behind. The User Agreement says Tokens have no cash value, are not property, cannot be transferred between accounts, expire 12 months after they are awarded, and terminate when the membership terminates. Redeem them yourself or they are simply gone.

Keep your own copy of your inventory list, customer and sales records, and product photos outside Bonanza. If the booth is closed, your heirs still have the underlying inventory and a record of the business. The User Agreement also bars marketing or exporting a Bonanza feedback rating outside a Bonanza-operated website, so the reputation you built there stays there.

If you carry a paid membership subscription, note how it is paid — Bonanza bills memberships by credit or debit card or by PayPal — and write down which, so your executor knows which account keeps charging and can ask Bonanza support to end it. Bonanza also offers a paused membership at $6.95 per month, which still renews monthly, so a paused membership is a live charge rather than a stopped one.

Tell your executor to have active listings disabled promptly so no new orders come in that no one can fulfill after your death.

Family sharing

Bonanza does not offer family sharing, pooling, or co-ownership of a seller account or booth. The User Agreement prohibits transferring or selling the account, its feedback, or the User ID, and Bonanza Tokens are "not transferable from one Bonanza account to another." Money from sales is never pooled at Bonanza — each sale is paid directly to the seller's own PayPal, Stripe, or Amazon Pay account at checkout, so funds always land in an account the seller controls rather than in a Bonanza-held balance.

Should you save your passwords for your family?

Some people store account passwords so a family member can sign in later. The practice has three practical limits:

Two-factor authentication often blocks it. Most accounts require a second factor — a code sent to a phone, an authenticator app, a passkey, or a physical key. A saved password alone frequently does not grant access, and the recovery codes that would are easy to lose or let go stale.
It usually conflicts with the platform's terms. Most operators prohibit account sharing and signing in as another person, including after a death. Stored credentials are not the operator's recognized access path, and using them can violate the terms of service.
Operators provide other paths. Where an operator offers a designation tool — Apple's Legacy Contact, Google's Inactive Account Manager, a beneficiary designation — that mechanism grants access the operator recognizes. A password manager's own emergency-access or legacy feature passes credentials through a controlled process. Digital assets named in a will or trust give a fiduciary authority under each state's Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA).

Frequently asked questions

Record which payment processor your booth pays into (PayPal, Stripe, or Amazon Pay) and the linked bank account, since Bonanza does not hold the money and your executor pursues the proceeds through the processor. Note the Bonanza account email and User ID, because the account cannot be transferred and Bonanza has no documented estate process. Flag the credit or debit card on file that Bonanza bills its fees to so your executor can have any membership subscription cancelled and reconcile the charges, keep your own copy of inventory and sales records, and tell your executor to have active listings disabled promptly.

No. Bonanza offers no beneficiary designation, and its User Agreement says a user agrees not to transfer or sell the account, its feedback, or the User ID, so the account itself cannot be willed or handed to an heir. Bonanza Tokens cannot be left to anyone either — the User Agreement says they have no cash value, are not a property right, are not transferable between accounts, and terminate with the membership. The practical planning move is to focus on what your estate can actually reach: document the payment processor your booth pays into (PayPal, Stripe, or Amazon Pay) and its linked bank account, note the credit card Bonanza bills its fees to, and keep your own copy of your inventory and sales records outside Bonanza.

They may. Bonanza bills a Final Value Fee (a minimum of 11 percent of the Final Offer Value under the fee table effective May 1, 2025) plus a 25-cent per-sale transaction fee for sellers without a membership subscription, and charges them to the credit or debit card every seller account keeps on file once the balance reaches the billing threshold. The User Agreement provides that past-due fees may be collected by charging that card. If sales continue running after your death, fees keep accruing, so instruct your executor to have active listings disabled promptly and reconcile any balance with Bonanza support at support@bonanza.com.

Listing the Bonanza account in an estate inventory identifies it for a fiduciary, who works through the operator's official channels to manage or close it.

Bonanza does not support beneficiary designations. Unlike financial accounts, there is no way to name a beneficiary on this type of account.

SimplyTrust Editorial·Updated September 16, 2026

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Mailing Address

Bonanza Worldwide, LLC, 3131 Western Ave #527, Seattle, WA 98121

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Bonanza Support (no dedicated estate team published)

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Verified Sep 2026

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