Estate planning as a OfferUp account holder

OfferUp is a buy-and-sell marketplace for local pickup and nationwide shipping. For shipped sales, the buyer's payment is collected and held by Stripe, OfferUp's payment processor, then released to the seller after the buyer's inspection window and transferred to the seller's deposit account (a debit card or bank account). The estate-relevant asset is any pending or in-progress seller payout — money owed for completed sales that has not yet reached the seller's bank or debit account. OfferUp does not publish a deceased-seller or estate-transfer process, and its Terms of Service make the account non-transferable.

OfferUp Inc. reviews transfer requests for OfferUp 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

OfferUp does not publish a dedicated deceased-seller or estate-succession process, and its Terms of Service list transferring your account to another user as a prohibited use, with no death or succession clause; OfferUp may also terminate account access at its discretion. There is no documented beneficiary designation and no self-service account transfer (only self-service deactivation or permanent deletion, which is not an estate path). The practical estate asset is any pending seller payout — money collected from buyers for completed shipped sales that has not yet been released or transferred to the seller's deposit account. For shipped items, buyer funds are held by Stripe and released to the seller after the buyer's inspection window, then transferred to the seller's debit card or bank account, so a recently completed sale may still be in transit when the seller dies. Because OfferUp publishes no estate procedure, the estate would seek to recover any such pending balance by contacting OfferUp support with proof of death and proof of authority to act for the estate, and OfferUp reviews these situations individually rather than through a documented process — hence case-by-case: the pending payout is a debt that may be claimable, but the timeline, required documents, and outcome are not publicly documented. Funds that already transferred to the seller's debit card or bank account are recovered from that receiving account, not from OfferUp.