Planning ahead for your Teachable earnings
Lifetime transfer options and steps to take now for Teachable, Inc. (subsidiary of Hotmart) earnings
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Transfer of earnings after death is not guaranteed under Teachable, Inc. (subsidiary of Hotmart)'s terms. Lifetime planning offers a more reliable way to manage and share earnings while the account is active.
How to protect your Teachable earnings
5 steps for managing your Teachable earnings during your lifetime:
Family sharing
A Teachable school is controlled by a single Primary Owner, who alone can add or remove other owners, manage payout/billing information, delete the school, and transfer primary ownership. The Primary Owner can transfer primary ownership to another existing owner of the school at any time; the transfer is confirmed through an email sent to the current Primary Owner's account inbox. There is no family-sharing or pooling feature — a school is a single business account, not a shared household one.
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
Document the account email and school name/URL for your executor, since a school is controlled by a single Primary Owner and account access is the practical key to everything else. Record the linked payout method (Teachable Payments via Stripe, PayPal, or a custom gateway) and destination bank account so your executor can trace unpaid earnings as money owed to the estate. Note that earnings can sit in a balance subject to a payout schedule and a reserve hold, and that a paid plan renews until cancelled. If you have a co-owner, consider whether the Primary Owner role should pass to them.
Listing the Teachable account in an estate inventory identifies it for a fiduciary, who works through the operator's official channels to manage or close it.
Teachable does not support beneficiary designations. Unlike financial accounts, there is no way to name a beneficiary on this type of account.
Sources
Data sourced from Teachable, Inc. (subsidiary of Hotmart) primary sources (5 pages reviewed). How we research.
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