Planning ahead for your Swappa account
Swappa, LLC account cannot be transferred and have no beneficiary option — here is what you can do while the account is active
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Swappa, LLC does not guarantee transfer of account after death. Lifetime planning provides options for managing account and controlling who has access to them.
How to protect your Swappa account
Here are 5 steps to protect and manage your Swappa account while the account is active:
Family sharing
Swappa does not offer family sharing, pooling, or co-ownership of an account. The Terms of Use prohibit transferring or selling a Swappa account and User ID to any other party. Because the buyer pays the seller directly into the seller's PayPal account (or Stripe), there is no Swappa balance to share — money that has been received sits in the seller's own payment account, which they control.
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
Record the account email for your executor, since Swappa has no documented estate or beneficiary process and the Terms prohibit transferring the account. Most importantly, note that Swappa does not hold your money — sale proceeds go to your PayPal account (or Stripe), so make sure your executor can access that payment account and follow the PayPal estate guide for the funds. Flag any active listings or in-progress sales so they can be addressed promptly.
Recording that a Swappa account exists, alongside other accounts, gives a fiduciary the information needed to reach the operator through its official process.
Swappa does not offer beneficiary designations, so there is no program-level mechanism for directing account to a specific person at death.
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