Takealot Seller Course - How to sell on Takealot

What will I learn?

Registration of a Takealot Marketplace Seller account
Registration with a shipping partner
Understanding the ways to sell on Takealot
How to price your products
How to use the Seller Portal
How to win the Buy Box
Promotions in Takealot
Sponsored advertising in Takealot
Additional resources to make your seller journey easier

Curriculum for this course

53 Lessons 02:22:41 Hours

Introduction

7 Lessons

Introduction to the Takealot Seller Course
Preview
Review Skill Space
Accessing your courses, messages, and user profile
Preview
Working through lessons
Preview
Accessing live workshops
Preview
Submit questions for live workshops
Downloading your certificate
Preview

Registering an account with Takealot

5 Lessons

Apply to sell on Takealot
Onboarding
The Seller Portal Dashboard
Takealot Knowledge Centre
Getting Started Pack

Registering an account with a shipping partner

2 Lessons

Courier Guy Account Registration
MDS Collivery Account Registration

Ways to sell on Takealot

2 Lessons

Leadtime Orders
Instock Items

Takealot fees and product pricing

5 Lessons

Review Skill Space
Product Pricing and Takealot Fees
Takealot Marketplace Success Fees
Fees Estimator
Global Loadsheet & Category Look-up

The seller portal

15 Lessons

Search Takealot's Catalogue
Add to Takealot's Catalogue
Global Loadsheet & Category Look-up
Catalogue Product Information Rules & Requirements
Manage My Offers
Leadtime Order Fulfilment
3-Day Leadtime Q&A
Replenishment Shipments
Product Packaging
View Sales
View Returns
Invoice Requests
Transactions
Invoices
Statements

Product competition and the Buy Box

2 Lessons

The Buy Box
Winning The Buy Box

Grow your business

7 Lessons

Promotions Calendar
Takealot Marketplace Promotions Calendar
Sponsored Ads
Product Sponsored Ads
Banner Advert Creative Guidelines
Banner Advert Artwork Guidelines
New Product Opportunities

Business Funding

3 Lessons

RetailRockIT - Stock to Cash - Information Sheet
RetailRockIT - Buy Stock - Information Sheet
RetailRockIT - Information you will need to submit

Additional resources

5 Lessons

Seller API
Webhooks
ShopDeploy
Product Image Design
Contact Takealot Seller Support

Frequently asked question

Why sell on the Takealot Marketplace?

Takealot is the largest e-commerce website in South Africa and every month 10 million people visit Takealot.com to see what products are on offer.

Does my business need to be registered with the CIPC

Your business does NOT need to be registered with CIPC to sell on Takealot

Does my business need to be VAT registered

Your business does NOT need to be VAT registered to sell on Takealot

Course description

This Takealot seller course will walk you step-by-step through the process of how to sell on Takealot.

We will start with registering an account with Takealot, will work through the navigation of the seller portal, will look at how to effectively price your products, and go through ways you can grow your business on Takealot. Finally, we will look at additional resources that you can use to make your seller journey easier.

This course not only comes with pre-recorded lessons for you to work through at your own pace but included in the package are free live monthly workshops for you to join and ask questions or make comments. These live monthly workshops are free for you to join if you are signed up for this course.

We hope to see you in the classroom soon.

(This course was last updated in November 2023. We are an active seller on Takealot and will update sections of this course as soon as Takealot makes any changes and make those updates available to everyone who has registered for this course)

Requirements