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:material-auto-fix: Create your first will
The plugin ships with a guided wizard that walks you through the whole setup. You only need two decisions: who inherits and when.
!!! tip "Do a dry run first" Set a delivery time a few hours away on a test wallet, and watch the transaction move through the states in the WILL tab. On such a short horizon, remember to disable or back-date Check Alive so it doesn't interfere.
Step 1 — Start the wizard
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The wizard walks through heirs, date, and Will-Executors in order.
Step 2 — Add your heirs
Enter the Bitcoin address of each heir and the share of the wallet they receive — as a percentage or as a fixed amount.
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One row per heir. You can add as many as you need.
The plugin always distributes 100% of the wallet. If your shares don't add up, it recalculates them proportionally — see Heirs and shares.
Step 3 — Choose the delivery time
This is the date on which the Will-Executors broadcast the inheritance to the Bitcoin network.
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You can pick a date from the calendar (BASIC mode) or express it as a relative delay (ADVANCED mode).
See Delivery time for how relative values and execution tolerance work.
Step 4 — Select the Will-Executors
Select- Automatically download and select willexecutor
The plugin downloads the WeList directory and shows the available servers with their fees.
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Select as many as you can: one transaction is created per Will-Executor.
!!! info "Pick many Will-Executors, not few" Each selected Will-Executor gets its own copy of the inheritance, with its own fee output. For the inheritance to succeed, only one of them has to still be operating on the delivery date. More servers means more redundancy.
Step 5 — Review and sign
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Review everything before signing.
Electrum then asks for your wallet password — or confirmation on your hardware wallet — and signs the transactions. The plugin never signs for you.
Once signed, the wills are sent to the selected Will-Executors and appear in the WILL tab, where you can verify that each server has actually stored its copy.
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Each row is one Will-Executor holding a copy of your inheritance.
What happens from now on
- Keep using Electrum normally. The plugin watches your balance and asks you to refresh the will when it changes — see Keeping the will up to date.
- If you enabled Check Alive (advanced mode), opening your wallet after the threshold prompts you to postpone the delivery date.
- If you stop opening Electrum, the Will-Executors broadcast the inheritance on the date you set.
!!! question "Still have a question?" The FAQ answers the most common ones — costs, hardware wallets, privacy, and what happens if a Will-Executor disappears.