Planning ahead for your Figma accounts

Figma, Inc. does not guarantee transfer of accounts after death. Lifetime planning provides options for managing accounts and controlling who has access to them.

Figma allows members to transfer accounts to other program members during their lifetime. Fees may apply, but this is a direct way to move accounts to family members while you are alive.

How to protect your Figma accounts

9 lifetime planning steps for your Figma accounts:

Family sharing

Figma has three distinct transfer mechanisms, all of which require the current owner or an admin to act from a signed-in session. File and folder ownership transfer is available on all plans: the creator is the owner and can hand ownership to a collaborator from the share modal, though the recipient has to already be a collaborator on a shared file or folder. A file sitting in drafts can be transferred to anyone it has been shared with, including someone outside the team. Team ownership works differently by plan: a separate team owner role exists only on Organization and Enterprise, where the current owner can transfer to any team member including one holding a free View seat; Starter and Professional teams have no owner role at all, only admin, editor, and viewer, and any admin can manage settings, members, and billing. Figma requires that a Starter or Professional team always have at least one admin, so a sole admin must promote someone else before leaving. Cross-account transfer also exists: any plan can send a folder and any plan can send a team, but only Professional, Organization, or Enterprise can receive a folder and only Organization or Enterprise can receive a team. Transfers carry files, prototypes, comments, version history, and branches, and Figma states they do not carry shared fonts, private plugins, or published Community resources.

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