Makro Auto Promotions
Sep 20, 2026 by Dihan Stoltz · 4 min read
Entering Makro promotions used to mean spreadsheets, manual pricing and a lot of wasted hours — which is why most sellers skip them or enter a handful of products and hope. This guide covers how to enter Makro promotions properly: what the rules actually are, how to pick the right products, how to know your margin before you commit, and how to submit the whole application in under five minutes using TSeller's Auto Promotions tool. If you already run our Takealot auto promotions, the workflow will feel familiar.
Why Makro Promotions Eat Your Week
The work is not hard, it is just relentless. Every product you enter needs its base price, selling price, committed stock, Makro's category, its fulfilment type, and a promo price that survives commission and delivery with margin left over. Do that for forty listings and the afternoon is gone. Then the form takes five products per response — so forty products means eight separate form fills, and a line that breaks the rules only surfaces when Makro rejects it.
What You Need to Qualify for a Makro Promotion
This is where most rejected applications go wrong, and almost nobody publishes it. Each promotion carries its own rules, and TSeller reads them off the promotion rather than assuming — but the thresholds you will most often meet are a minimum of five promotional units per offer, a minimum deal value of R5 000 in GMV (promo price × committed units), a minimum selling price of R299, and a pick-and-pack time of no more than two days. Makro also expects products in a category you are approved for, market-related pricing, complete listing content, and prefers in-stock Fulfilled by Makro inventory. Applying is never a guarantee of selection.
How to Enter a Makro Promotion in Under Five Minutes
Connect your Makro store and open Auto Promotions. Every live, priced listing loads with its base price, selling price, stock, category, fulfilment type, ninety-day units sold and days of cover. From there: choose a promotion from the calendar, read its rules, select your offers, set discounts, check the profit, clear any flagged lines, and submit.
Let Templates Pick the Products, Then Set Everything in Bulk
Five templates make the slowest decision for you. Over Stocked pulls listings holding far more cover than they need. Best Sellers ranks by ninety-day units. Slow Movers finds stock that has sold nothing. Full Price surfaces listings not already discounted. Fulfilled by Makro filters to FBM stock, which Makro tends to favour for deals.
With the offers selected, you set Makro's required values in bulk: apply a category and fulfilment type across the selection, then a bulk discount and promotional stock quantity, overriding individual lines where needed.
Know Your Profit Before You Submit
As you discount, every line shows a live cost breakdown: Makro's commission for that product's category, the final-mile fee for its parcel size, your product cost, and your shipping. From that you get profit per unit, margin on the promo price, and total profit for the units you are committing — with any negative line flagged red. Discounting into a loss is the most expensive mistake in marketplace promotions and very easy to make by eye.
The Rules Check That Stops Rejections
Before you submit, every line is validated against the promotion's rules: deals below the minimum selling price, offers below the minimum units, and deals under the minimum GMV threshold are each flagged and summarised. Finding out that six of your forty lines do not qualify while you are still in the planner beats finding out a week later in a rejection email.
Two Ways to Submit Your Application
Export the promo planner file — a spreadsheet already structured the way Makro wants it — and send it to your account manager. Or open Makro's submission form pre-populated with your seller details, product title, category, base price, promotion price and stock. Because the form takes five products per response, larger applications are split into batches automatically, so forty products becomes eight pre-filled forms rather than eight rounds of copy and paste.
Conclusion
Once a promotion is live, the results view shows what each deal was actually worth — units moved, the price they sold at, revenue, and the average discount you gave away to get it. That is what makes the next application better than this one. Makro promotions are one of the cheapest ways to reach buyers who are already shopping, and most sellers under-use them purely because entering them is tedious. Start your free 14-day trial at https://tseller.co.za, or open Auto Promotions, switch to Makro, and build your next application.
