Planning ahead for your Burger King Crowns
Burger King Company LLC (Restaurant Brands International Inc.) Crowns cannot be transferred and have no beneficiary option — here is what you can do while the account is active
BK Guest Care (Help Center and chat support; Burger King publishes no guest service phone number on a Burger King-owned page)
Burger King / Restaurant Brands International Privacy Officer (no dedicated estates team; Burger King routes Royal Perks account and data requests here)
Burger King Company LLC (Restaurant Brands International Inc.)'s terms state that Crowns are forfeited when the account holder dies. Lifetime planning is the only path to extracting value from the account before that happens.
How to protect your Burger King Crowns
4 steps for managing your Burger King Crowns during your lifetime:
Family sharing
Royal Perks has no family pooling, household, or shared-account feature. The terms set a limit of one account per person, state that each account is specific to an individual and may not be shared, transferred, or sold, and reserve the Sponsor's right to suspend, cancel, or combine accounts that appear to be duplicative. The only documented account-to-account movement of a balance is an administrative one: Burger King's Help Center states that because the email address on a BK account cannot be edited once set, a member who wants a different email must create a new account, and that "If your current account has a balance of Crown Points or gift card funds, our Guest Care team can transfer them to your new account once it is created." That path is written for one member moving between their own accounts, not for sharing a balance with a relative.
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
Treat Royal Perks as a non-transferable, no-cash-value loyalty perk rather than an inheritable asset. Redeem Crowns regularly so a balance does not expire, since Crowns lapse about six months after they are earned, and keep the account active, because an account with no eligible transactions for two consecutive years can be unregistered and everything in it treated as revoked. Leave your Royal Perks account email with the person who will handle your affairs, along with a note about any gift card funds on the account, and leave your password out of it. Do not list Crowns as something an heir can inherit.
No. Royal Perks offers no beneficiary designation. The terms make the account and Crowns personal to you, bar selling, transferring, assigning, or sharing them with family or others except as Burger King specifically permits at its sole and absolute discretion, and state that all Program-Related Information remains the sole and exclusive property of the Sponsor. Because there is no way to name a survivor and Crowns carry no cash value, the only way to capture their value is to redeem them for eligible menu items during your lifetime.
Recording that a Burger King account exists, alongside other accounts, gives a fiduciary the information needed to reach the operator through its official process.
Burger King does not support beneficiary designations. Unlike financial accounts, there is no way to name a beneficiary on this type of account.
Sources
Data sourced from Burger King Company LLC (Restaurant Brands International Inc.) primary sources (9 pages reviewed). How we research.
BK Guest Care (Help Center and chat support; Burger King publishes no guest service phone number on a Burger King-owned page)
Burger King / Restaurant Brands International Privacy Officer (no dedicated estates team; Burger King routes Royal Perks account and data requests here)
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