Estate planning as a Fiverr account holder

Fiverr is a freelance marketplace where freelancers offer services ("gigs") to clients worldwide. The estate-relevant asset is the freelancer's earnings: when a client completes an order, the freelancer is credited 80 percent of the purchase amount, the revenue enters a safety clearance period, and it then becomes available for withdrawal — real money the freelancer can move to PayPal, a bank account or Payoneer account through Payoneer, or the legacy Fiverr Revenue Card. Those cleared funds are recoverable value for an estate. By contrast, the Fiverr account itself, the freelancer level and reputation built up over time, and any active gigs and in-progress orders are tied to the individual freelancer and are not transferable.

Fiverr International Ltd. reviews transfer requests for Fiverr balance on a case-by-case basis after the account holder's death. Approval is at the company's sole discretion, and documentation requirements must be met before any transfer is considered.

What happens at death

Fiverr does not publish a dedicated deceased-account or estate process and reviews account matters on a case-by-case basis through Customer Support. A scan of all 309 published English Help Center articles on 2026-09-16 returned no deceased-user, bereavement, or estate procedure of any kind. The Fiverr account itself is personal to the freelancer and is not transferable: the Community Standards prohibit offers to sell or buy Fiverr accounts and prohibit creating a Fiverr profile with personal information or credentials for anyone other than yourself. The freelancer level, reviews, and reputation built up over time are tied to that individual account and cannot be inherited or continued by a successor, and active gigs and in-progress orders are likewise tied to the freelancer and generally must be cancelled or refunded rather than fulfilled by the estate. Because Fiverr has no published rule for a deceased freelancer, an executor's practical entry point is Fiverr Customer Support, which may request a death certificate and documentation establishing authority to act for the estate and then decides how the account and any balance are handled. Separately, cleared earnings are money rather than a marketplace right: they are paid out through the payout provider linked to the account (PayPal, a bank transfer or Payoneer account through Payoneer, or the legacy Fiverr Revenue Card), and Fiverr states that it is not itself a payment services provider and that all withdrawal services are performed by its payment services providers. The Payment Terms hold completed-order revenue for a safety clearance period of 14 days after the order is marked complete, 7 days for Top Rated Sellers and for hourly contracts after the weekly report is completed, and Fiverr requires any balance or earned revenues to be withdrawn or refunded before an account can be deactivated or deleted. For a disabled account, the Payment Terms state that sellers "will be able to withdraw their Earnings from disabled accounts after a safety period of 90 days following full verification of ownership of the account in question, from the day of the last cleared payment received in their account and subject to Fiverr's approval." A payment-provider withdrawal account can be associated with only one Fiverr profile, which can complicate recovery if the executor cannot reach the freelancer's linked payout provider.