Takealot Fee Calculator

Takealot is South Africa's largest online marketplace, and its fees come in more layers than a single commission percentage suggests. There is a fixed R400 per month subscription excluding VAT (R460 with South Africa's 15% VAT), a category success fee of 5% to 18% charged on the VAT-inclusive selling price, a per-item fulfilment fee set by weight and size class when Takealot ships from its warehouses, and storage fees once stock sits longer than 35 days. The headline rate you see quoted is the success fee, but the effective rate per order is where margin quietly disappears, which is why sellers run their actual products through a fee estimator before pricing.

This calculator models twelve representative categories from Takealot's official 2026 fee schedule (mobile phones 12%, computers and components 8%, TV and audio 7%, cameras 11%, homeware and appliances 9%, clothing and footwear 8%, beauty and health 13%, baby 13%, sport and outdoor 13%, home, garden and DIY 11%, toys and games 10%, grocery and liquor 11%) or any custom rate your exact category node dictates. Enter your VAT-inclusive sale price and landed cost, plus the optional fulfilment fee for your item's weight and size band (roughly R30 for small light items up to R340 for bulky ones), to get the success fee, total platform fees, net profit, and margin per sale. The success fee is credited back on returned items, so returns cost you the fulfilment in both directions rather than the commission.

The calculator is a planning tool, not a quote: official rate cards are published by full category path and change over time. The R400/month subscription is intentionally kept separate so you can see the per-order platform take on its own, then spread it across your monthly volume yourself. Sponsored placement, advertising, penalty fees, and storage after day 35 are costs you add on top. Nothing you type is sent anywhere; everything runs in your browser.

Takealot's own seller portal includes a fee estimator, but it sits behind a login. This calculator is the public, no-signup version, built on the same official fee schedule and carrying a visible last-verified date, so it can keep working as the free reference sellers search for before they commit to a seller account.