Estate planning as a Teachable account holder

Teachable is a creator platform for building and selling online courses, coaching, memberships, and digital downloads. A creator runs a "school" (their branded site and course catalog) under a Teachable account, and revenue accrues as payout earnings through Teachable Payments (also branded Teachable:pay), which settles to a bank account via Stripe. The estate-relevant assets are the school and its course content, the account itself (controlled by a Primary Owner), and any unpaid payout earnings held in the balance or pending Stripe payout. Teachable does not publish a death or estate process in its Terms of Use or Help Center, so reaching an account balance after the owner dies depends on contacting Teachable Support and on access to the account and its linked Stripe and bank details.

When a Teachable account holder dies, their earnings may be transferred to a designated person at Teachable, Inc. (subsidiary of Hotmart)'s sole discretion. A transfer is not guaranteed, and satisfactory documentation is required before processing any request.

earnings can be transferred to another person while the Teachable account holder is alive.

What happens at death

Teachable publishes no death, estate, or bereavement policy. Its Terms of Use address assignment (a user may not assign their rights under the Terms without Teachable's prior written consent) and voluntary account deletion (a user may delete their account at any time; Teachable may also delete an account), but they do not state what happens to an account, its school, or its unpaid payout earnings when the account holder dies. Unlike a forfeitable loyalty balance, a creator's unpaid payout earnings are money owed: Teachable Payments holds the balance and settles it to the creator's bank account via Stripe on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule. Because that money is recoverable in principle but Teachable documents no estate channel for it, the disposition of a deceased creator's account and balance is handled case by case through Teachable Support. There is a Transfer Primary Ownership feature, but it is an owner-initiated action confirmed by an email sent to the current Primary Owner's inbox, so it presumes access to the account rather than serving as a death-transfer process.