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Marketplace management
Marketplace management

Takealot services

Audits, account set-up, listings, Buy Box pricing, stock planning, ads and weekly account management on Takealot. Agents check your account every day. A person approves every change.

Stores and accounts

  • Takealot.com

Stock held in Takealot's warehouses, or sold on lead time and delivered to Takealot when it is ordered.

Seller Portal
Your offers, prices, stock, orders, returns and statements, and the reports behind every claim.
Takealot's warehouses
Stock sent to each warehouse, with days of cover tracked so it neither runs out nor runs up storage fees.
Takealot ads
Sponsored ads on Takealot for the products with the margin to carry them.

Services

Buy a service on its own, or have it run as part of Managed. Each one is quoted for your scope before it starts.

Diagnose

Find out what is costing you before you buy anything else.

  • Takealot account audit

    Your Seller Portal read end to end: offers, Buy Box, stock cover, returns, fees, account health and ads. You get a written list of fixes, ranked by what each one costs you.

  • Profit and fee review

    Margin per product after the success fee, fulfilment fee, storage and VAT, and the products that lose money once every fee is counted.

  • Range review

    Which of your products can sell on Takealot: category fees, size and weight, competing offers and the products to list first.

Build

Fixed-scope work, bought one piece at a time.

  • Account set-up

    Seller registration, onboarding and compliance, with the first offers and the first stock ready to go live.

  • Listing optimisation

    Titles, descriptions, attributes and images written to Takealot's content rules, with each product in the right category.

  • Pricing and Buy Box

    A floor and a ceiling for every product, and rules for when to match a competing offer and when to hold, signed off by you.

  • Stock planning

    Days-of-cover targets for each product and what to send to each Takealot warehouse, so stock neither runs out nor sits in storage.

  • Ads set-up and tuning

    Sponsored ads built around your margins, then tuned for 30 days: bids, products and budgets.

  • Stock claims

    Stock Recon reports checked for lost and damaged stock, with each claim prepared with the evidence before the admin fee applies. You or your partner file them.

  • Deals and promotions

    A calendar of Takealot's deals and promotions, with the products to put forward and prices that still clear your floor.

Run

Your Takealot account run every week, quoted for your range.

  • Managed Takealot

    Offers, pricing within your margin floors, the Buy Box, stock, ads, returns, stock claims and account health, with a weekly plan, a monthly report and a call.

  • Takealot and Amazon together

    One plan across Takealot and Amazon.co.za with each marketplace's numbers kept apart, or an international brand brought to Takealot.

Checked every day

Agents read your account data every day and raise what needs a person. Nothing changes on your account until a person approves it.

  • Buy Box: offers that lost it, and whether the winning offer is cheaper or delivers faster.
  • Margin: products whose margin after fees and ads has fallen below the floor.
  • Stock: days of cover in each warehouse, and what to send before it runs out.
  • Storage: products with more stock cover than they need, before storage fees build up.
  • Claims: lost and damaged stock on the Stock Recon report, and the date each claim is due.
  • Returns: products with rising return rates, and the reasons buyers give.
  • Ads: products that spend without orders.
  • Sales: the products that moved most since yesterday and since last week.

How we work

  1. 01

    Start with a Takealot account audit, or a free call if you are not selling on Takealot yet.

  2. 02

    Agree the products in scope and a margin floor for each product.

  3. 03

    You grant access to your Seller Portal data. Agents read it from there every day.

  4. 04

    A person approves every change to prices, listings and ad spend before it goes live.

  5. 05

    Review the weekly plan together, with a monthly report on margin, claims, stock and what comes next.

Scope, agreed up front

  • You own the Takealot seller account and pay ad spend directly to Takealot.
  • Stock claims are prepared and their deadlines tracked. You or your partner file them.
  • Agents use only the access you grant, and you can remove it at any time.
  • Managed work is quoted for your range.
  • If we stop, you get a written handover and my access is removed.

See the related work

Existing work that shows the approach. The scope for your job is agreed separately.

Repricing engine

A daily repricer for thousands of SKUs. It checks margin floors, buy-box position and competitor price changes before setting a price. Exceptions go to a person.

Read case study

Catalogue health dashboard

A dashboard that ranks listings by risk and flags broken listings, missing variants and policy violations before suppression.

Read case study

Cross-border marketplace launch

A playbook for taking a US brand into UK and South African marketplaces. It covers listing localisation, compliance, fulfilment and pricing.

Read case study

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