How to protect your Stripe account while you are alive

There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a Stripe account; the closest step is adding a trusted person as an Administrator or Super Administrator, who can manage almost everything but cannot change the account owner.¹

Stripe supports team members with assigned roles. A Super Administrator can perform all privileged actions except deleting the default bank account and changing the account owner.¹

There can be only one owner of an account. The account owner is a special type of Administrator who can perform all actions, including closing the account.¹

The current owner can transfer ownership to a user with the Administrator or Super Administrator role, or invite a new person as a Super Administrator and transfer once they accept.²

For Stripe accounts in Brazil, ownership cannot be transferred for an individual or sole-proprietorship account linked to a CPF.²

The Services Agreement allows assignment in its entirety to a successor from a merger, acquisition or sale of substantially all assets or voting securities, with prompt written notice to Stripe.³

The Balance summary report works like a bank statement, and an itemized CSV of the complete transaction history can be exported from it.⁴

Customer card data can be transferred only to another PCI DSS Level 1-compliant payment processor, through an encrypted export Stripe prepares.⁵