Package Stock like a Pro! Step-by-step packaging guide 

@@NengWeiShi huge pleasure. Glad it helped!

@@koketjokgomo I literally did that the first time for our products 🤣 until I read the rules again because I was so annoyed.

@@lukaswinterr ay! Thanks for noticing, haha. It makes admin days so much better.

@@khaboninaviolet5200 you read my mind. It’s literally my next video I’m doing, haha 😂

Well done! Such a good feeling right? Hope everything sells really quickly.

@@Romero_Meyer Thanks it feels really good hey.yes I started making my second sale

Hope so

It is a good feeling I started making my second sale .😊

Big pleasure!

Definitely the plan. Want to help make things a bit simpler. 💪🏾

Thanks for the support!

Thank you. It would be dealt with The same. Some people don’t recommend you sell fragile items on takealot (because of breakages and returns for ‘damaged goods’). I personally don’t tell similar items but I would make sure they’re well packaged as you package will go through many hands before arriving at your customer. Remember though: The individual items don’t need to be able to survive a 1m drop test. Just the boxes containing your stock being sent have to be.

Big pleasure.

Items need to be able to ship to Takealot safely enough without being damaged. I don’t want to give you wrong information so I would log into your sellers portal, and floating on the right side of your screen will be the help tab. Use the search icon and just type key words like “packaging” in this case, as go through the articles there. It has saved me a few times on specific issues. As takealot does have specific rules for various items (food, glass, etc all have stricter rules). I only sell smaller items so I hope this helps but just don’t want to give false info. 👏🏾

@@Romero_Meyer thanks bud. Definitely helps

Thank you!

Takealot themselves use Courier Guy for their courier services (mostly as far as I know) so I don’t think it changes much for us in terms of sending stock. 😊

@@Authentic_Alf yes. It needs to cover any existing barcode. 😊

So glad it’s been a help! 1. Yes, you always need to place the waybill (either regular A4 or their Waybill Sticker you can print) for TCG to track the package and make sure it’s gets to where it needs to. 2. You can just ask the driver for them, maybe take a screenshot of them as reference. They usually have extra roles in the bakkies. Also, I always recommend being super friendly to the Courier Staff. They tend to remember you more and have come in to save the day a few times on last minute pickups.

@Romero_Meyer_ZA you have no idea how much of a help it has been! We are in the process of setting up and starting to sell through takealot, so need all of the help we can get. But videos like these definitely make it less daunting to take the first steps! Fantastic, thank you for all of the feedback! The barcode sticker I am referring to is the one the courier guy provides on the roll. So for a normal shipment to a customer that had 2 boxes, one would have the waybill, and the other box would have the barcode sticker on it with the waybill number written on it. But I get what you are saying, you would still need these stickers anyway on the box, otherwise the courier could misplace the parcel. Just wanted to make sure takealot wouldn't have a problem with another barcode sticker on it? And absolutely agree with being really friendly with the courier guys staff! Hands down the best service from them. Will definitely ask the driver next time for some of those DC stickers.

@@DamianvanVuuren-tt6uw oh, got you. I actually never use those. In fact I don’t even have any, haha. Even when I send orders to customers directly or samples. But I know what you’re talking about because when they pick it up I see them put on those tracking stickers before loading :)

1 would be the minimum. Technically you don’t have to send any if you only sell on Leadtime. In general though, the more you can send the better, as then the shipping price is divided over more items. Also, for all new items you’re only allowed to send 5 to each DC 😊

@@Romero_Meyer Okay Thank you so much that really clarified the most and thanks again for the video!🙏

Eish. That’s weird! If you’re still new (3months or less) you should have had someone reach out to you to help with on-boarding then You’d be able to email them and query. Just try be sure that you’re 100% you did pack the amount you think. Otherwise if you live in Cpt, it could just be that what you sent hasn’t reflected in the stock yet? But then you would see x amount of stock under the “stock on its way” column.

@@Romero_Meyer I live in Cape Town, Stock on the way shows the total stock I sent but the stock in JHB shows only half of the stock I sent to JHB . I will email the person who assisted me with onboarding, perhaps she can help. Thank for your reply.

Great question. It will be in the next 1 or 2 videos!

@@alexjayroyce 100%. Your get both orders ready and then they collect them and ship to DC.

@@alexjayroyce I touch on it a bit here in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7X1bBDZv9kA.htmlsi=-FN8FANMIz0Gldw-

@@tsheposeboko6673 hey. Whenever you send something via a courier, you need a waybill number, which essentially is an ID # for your package for tracking, etc etc.

Yes you can sell anything as long as it's lega

100%. I shipped 7 different products in this video (I just didn’t show them all). As long as they’re all on the Shipping not under the same shipment. 👏🏾

@@Romero_Meyer nice

@@Romero_Meyer another question. Where do I buy that self-adhesive pouch for the shipping note. What are other options for sticking the note to the box if I don't have that pouch?

@@Shelfless I got a bunch for free from the Courier Guy when I signed up. But I see they’re sold on their website under Waybill ‘Windows’ if I’m not mistaken. 😊

@@Romero_Meyer thank you