Planning ahead for your Bonanza account
Bonanza Worldwide, LLC account cannot be transferred and have no beneficiary option — here is what you can do while the account is active
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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 6 steps to protect and manage your Bonanza account while the account is active:
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 card on file that Bonanza bills its fees to so your executor can cancel any membership subscription and reconcile the charges, keep your own copy of inventory and sales records, and tell your executor to disable active listings 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% of the Final Offer Value as of May 1, 2025) to the credit card on file and charges it once the balance reaches the monthly billing threshold, and past-due fees may be charged to that card. If sales continue running after your death, fees keep accruing, so instruct your executor to disable active listings 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.
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