Planning ahead for your Depop accounts
Depop Ltd. (Etsy, pending eBay acquisition) accounts cannot be transferred and have no beneficiary option — here is what you can do while the account is active
Because Depop Ltd. (Etsy, pending eBay acquisition) reviews transfer requests on a case-by-case basis, there is no guarantee that accounts will be transferred after death. Lifetime planning reduces dependence on that outcome.
How to protect your Depop accounts
6 lifetime planning steps for your Depop accounts:
Family sharing
Depop accounts are non-transferable. The Terms of Service explicitly prohibit transferring account ownership to another person. Accounts cannot be sold, gifted, or transferred to heirs. There is no multi-user access, delegate, or family sharing feature. The only option for deceased users is account closure. Seller balances are processed through Stripe and flow to the linked bank account.
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
Note that the account exists and which email it uses so an executor can identify it. Keep the seller balance low by letting payouts process regularly, verify the linked payout bank account is one the estate can reach, and keep no outstanding orders. Buyer reviews and seller reputation cannot be transferred, so document any listed inventory separately in your estate plan since the physical items have value independent of the account.
Listing the Depop account in an estate inventory identifies it for a fiduciary, who works through the operator's official channels to manage or close it.
Depop 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 Depop Ltd. (Etsy, pending eBay acquisition) primary sources (8 pages reviewed). How we research.
