Planning ahead for your Chairish balance
Chairish, Inc. balance cannot be transferred and have no beneficiary option — here is what you can do while the account is active
Chairish Customer Service
Chairish, Inc., 548 Market Street, Suite 69473, San Francisco, CA 94104 (mail only; no packages accepted)
Chairish Customer Service (no dedicated estate team published)
Chairish, Inc., 548 Market Street, Suite 69473, San Francisco, CA 94104 (mail only; no packages accepted)
Chairish, Inc. does not guarantee transfer of balance after death. Lifetime planning provides options for managing balance and controlling who has access to them.
How to protect your Chairish balance
6 steps for managing your Chairish balance during your lifetime:
Family sharing
Chairish does not offer family sharing, pooling, or co-ownership of a seller account. Section 30 of the Terms of Service prohibits assigning, delegating, or transferring the account or its rights without Chairish's prior written consent, and states that any assignment in violation of that provision is null and void. The only routine way money leaves Chairish is the seller's own payout after a sale closes — by bank transfer through Stripe Connect or by PayPal — which lands in an account the seller controls. Chairish also notes that updates to payment account information "will apply to future payouts" and that "if a payout has already been initiated, it cannot be redirected," so the destination account cannot be changed retroactively.
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 the account email for your executor, since Chairish has no documented estate or beneficiary process and the account cannot be transferred without Chairish's written consent. Note where payouts are sent (your PayPal account or the bank account connected through Stripe Connect) so funds can be traced. Explain that Chairish holds the buyer's money until delivery is confirmed and that a sale is final only after the 48-hour return period, so an estate should expect money to still be in flight. Keep a record of what is listed and where the physical items are stored, export your sales history from My Sales History and keep the file outside Chairish, and do not let an account with money or inventory behind it go dormant — Section 25 of the Terms lets Chairish terminate an account for extended inactivity, and termination "may result in the destruction of any Content associated with your account."
No. Chairish offers no beneficiary designation and no co-ownership or family sharing of a seller account, and Section 30 of its Terms of Service prohibits assigning, delegating, or transferring the account or its rights without Chairish's prior written consent. The practical planning step is not to name anyone on the account but to leave your executor the account email, your payout destination (PayPal or the bank account connected through Stripe Connect), and a record of your listings and sales, so the estate can contact Chairish about the balance it is holding and recover the unsold physical inventory.
Recording that a Chairish account exists, alongside other accounts, gives a fiduciary the information needed to reach the operator through its official process.
There is no beneficiary designation option for Chairish. This account type does not support naming a recipient the way bank or investment accounts do.
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Chairish Customer Service
Chairish, Inc., 548 Market Street, Suite 69473, San Francisco, CA 94104 (mail only; no packages accepted)
Chairish Customer Service (no dedicated estate team published)
Chairish, Inc., 548 Market Street, Suite 69473, San Francisco, CA 94104 (mail only; no packages accepted)
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