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 00:06:36 Hours

Introduction to the Takealot Seller Course
Preview 00:00:52
Review Skill Space
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Accessing your courses, messages, and user profile
Preview 00:02:37
Working through lessons
Preview 00:01:09
Accessing live workshops
Preview 00:01:08
Submit questions for live workshops
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Downloading your certificate
Preview 00:00:50

Registering an account with Takealot

5 Lessons 00:08:34 Hours

Apply to sell on Takealot
00:03:35
Onboarding
00:00:37
The Seller Portal Dashboard
00:01:18
Takealot Knowledge Centre
00:03:04
Getting Started Pack
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Registering an account with a shipping partner

2 Lessons 00:06:24 Hours

Courier Guy Account Registration
00:04:10
MDS Collivery Account Registration
00:02:14

Ways to sell on Takealot

2 Lessons 00:04:30 Hours

Leadtime Orders
00:02:01
Instock Items
00:02:29

Takealot fees and product pricing

5 Lessons 00:09:15 Hours

Review Skill Space
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Product Pricing and Takealot Fees
00:03:39
Takealot Marketplace Success Fees
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Fees Estimator
00:05:36
Global Loadsheet & Category Look-up
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The seller portal

15 Lessons 01:13:50 Hours

Search Takealot's Catalogue
00:04:45
Add to Takealot's Catalogue
00:12:36
Global Loadsheet & Category Look-up
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Catalogue Product Information Rules & Requirements
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Manage My Offers
00:02:50
Leadtime Order Fulfilment
00:20:10
3-Day Leadtime Q&A
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Replenishment Shipments
00:15:01
Product Packaging
00:02:29
View Sales
00:02:20
View Returns
00:03:30
Invoice Requests
00:01:49
Transactions
00:02:38
Invoices
00:01:21
Statements
00:04:21

Product competition and the Buy Box

2 Lessons 00:04:11 Hours

The Buy Box
00:01:13
Winning The Buy Box
00:02:58

Grow your business

7 Lessons 00:16:21 Hours

Promotions Calendar
00:01:39
Takealot Marketplace Promotions Calendar
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Sponsored Ads
00:01:24
Product Sponsored Ads
00:12:28
Banner Advert Creative Guidelines
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Banner Advert Artwork Guidelines
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New Product Opportunities
00:00:50

Business Funding

3 Lessons 00:00:00 Hours

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

5 Lessons 00:13:00 Hours

Seller API
00:01:35
Webhooks
00:01:32
ShopDeploy
00:05:33
Product Image Design
00:04:20
Contact Takealot Seller Support
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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