{"id":7754,"date":"2016-11-11T23:07:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T06:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/qa\/distributorship-participation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:25:45","slug":"distributorship-participation","status":"publish","type":"qa","link":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/qa\/distributorship-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributorship Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Policies governing participation in a USANA Business are found in Sections 24 and 25 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/askusana.com\/qa\/policies-procedures-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terms &amp; Policies<\/a>. They provide, in part, that an Associate may operate, receive compensation from, or have an ownership interest, legal or equitable, as a member, sole proprietorship, shareholder, trustee, or beneficiary in only one USANA Business. However:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Your spouse may become an Associate and operate a second distributorship as long your spouse\u2019s distributorship is placed below one of your Business Centers and not in a crossline organization. The second business must be a bona fide independent business that is operated by the person listed on the agreement and not by the owner of the first business.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>If both you and your spouse had separate businesses prior to marriage, you both can keep the distributorships if you submit a copy of the marriage certificate and new application form filled out with updated information to USANA.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>If a distributorship is inherited by succession, USANA will need proof of death, proof of succession, and a new application.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When an Associate account is transferred through a Transfer of Distributorship or succession, the new account owner is accepting the business as is. Thus, Pacesetter status or lack thereof, will remain the same after the the transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policies governing participation in a USANA Business are found in Sections 24 and 25 of the Terms &amp; Policies. They provide, in part, that an Associate may operate, receive compensation from, or have an ownership interest, legal or equitable, as a member, sole proprietorship, shareholder, trustee, or beneficiary in only one USANA Business. However: Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1252,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"qa-category":[],"qa-tag":[],"class_list":["post-7754","qa","type-qa","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa\/7754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/qa"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa\/7754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304841,"href":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa\/7754\/revisions\/304841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"qa-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa-category?post=7754"},{"taxonomy":"qa-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askusana.com\/cae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/qa-tag?post=7754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}