Takealot sponsored ads are pay-per-click promotions that place your product in search results and category pages, so you only pay when a shopper clicks. To set them up, open the advertising section of your seller account, set a daily budget, choose your products, then pick manual or automated biddin...
To send inventory to Amazon FBA in South Africa, create your FBA listings in Seller Central, prepare and label each unit, build a shipping plan, book a carrier and deliver the boxes to the fulfilment centre Amazon assigns. Amazon then receives the stock and starts picking, packing and shipping your ...
On paper, Amazon South Africa is cheaper to sell on than Takealot in 2026. Amazon has no fixed monthly fee on its Individual plan, and it has cut referral fees to a flat 5% until 31 March 2027. Takealot charges a R400 monthly account fee plus a category success fee of roughly 4% to 18%.
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TikTok Shop's native in-app checkout isn't available to South African sellers yet — the platform currently runs local seller accounts in 24 markets, and South Africa isn't one of them. That doesn't mean TikTok is off the table. SA sellers are already using the app to sell, by driving TikTok traffic ...
To rank a Shopify store on Google in South Africa, you need three things working in tandem: technical SEO that Shopify doesn't fully handle out of the box, on-page content built around how South Africans actually search, and a small but genuine base of local links and citations. Most Shopify SEO gui...
Winning the Takealot Buy Box comes down to four things the algorithm weighs every few minutes: your price, your stock availability, your delivery speed, and your seller performance rating. Get all four right and your offer becomes the default "Add to Cart" option on a shared listing. Get one wrong —...
Selling on WhatsApp means using the WhatsApp Business app or API to show your catalogue, chat with buyers, and close sales inside a single conversation, without forcing shoppers onto a separate website first. For South African sellers, that matters because WhatsApp is where your customers already sp...
Bob Pay, Yoco and Peach Payments currently offer the lowest card rates for South African Shopify stores, both sitting around 2.6 - 2.95%, while PayFast remains the most widely trusted option because it supports EFT, SnapScan, and Zapper alongside cards. There is no single "best" answer, because Shop...
Can You Actually Sell on Amazon From South Africa in 2026?
Yes — and it is more accessible now than when the marketplace launched in May 2024. To sell on Amazon South Africa in 2026, you register a seller account at sellercentral.amazon.co.za, choose between the Individual or Professional selling p...
Selling on Takealot costs South African sellers three things: a R400 monthly account fee, a success fee of roughly 4% to 18% of each sale (depending on category), and a fulfilment fee of R20 to R360 per order based on weight and size. On a typical R299 item, total fees usually land between 25% and 4...
Top 10 AI Tools Shopify Owners Can Use to Increase Sales Right Now
The eCommerce landscape has changed dramatically in the last two years. AI is no longer a "nice to have" — it's the competitive edge separating stores that scale from stores that stagnate. The good news? You don't need a tech team t...
The retail landscape in South Africa has undergone a shift owing to the advent of online businesses. With the increase in order volume and the ever-growing expectations of consumers, all the manual work has now been digitised. These areas primarily include inventory management, order processing and ...
