Takealot Advanced Rules
Sep 28, 2026 by Dihan Stoltz · 4 min read
Advanced Rules in the TSeller Takealot Buy Box has been rebuilt. Every tracked offer now shows its live pricing next to its rules, so you can see what a change will do before you make it, and there are three new controls sellers have been asking for: choosing whether to compete with lead-time offers, giving lead-time offers their own price gap, and pausing repricing for a set period. This post walks through each one and when to use it. New to the repricer itself? Start with our Takealot Buy Box repricer guide.
See the Numbers Behind Every Rule
Open Advanced Rules and each tracked offer has its own rules card. The Current Pricing tile puts four numbers side by side: your current price, your minimum price, your preferred price, and the cheapest rival on the listing, so when you set a price gap or decide whether to fight a competitor, the prices that decision affects are right in front of you. View details goes further, with a profit breakdown at your minimum and preferred price and your position among the competing offers. Prefer to work in bulk? Switch Advanced Rules to the table view, or use the Columns menu on the management table to show just the rules you care about — frequency, price gap, lead-time offers, lead-time gap, pause and daily reset — and edit them inline.
Lead-Time Offers: Compete or Ignore
On Takealot, a lead-time offer is one the seller ships from their own stock rather than from a Takealot warehouse, so the customer waits several working days instead of getting next-day delivery. Takealot favours offers it can deliver from stock, so when your offer is in stock and a rival's ships on lead time, you can often keep the Buy Box without matching their price — yet until now the repricer undercut every rival regardless. The new Lead-Time Offers setting gives you the choice. Compete, the default, keeps that behaviour. Ignore applies whenever your own offer is in stock: the repricer disregards lead-time rivals when it works out your price, and if the only competition left ships on lead time, it treats you as uncontested and moves you up to your preferred price. If your offer is on lead time too, it carries on competing with everyone, like for like. When a lead-time price is ignored, Update History says so, so you always know why the repricer held.
A Separate Gap for Lead-Time Rivals
If you would rather keep competing with lead-time offers, Lead-Time Gap lets you undercut them by a different amount from in-stock rivals — for example R1 below in-stock sellers but R5 below a lead-time offer, or the other way round, whichever suits your strategy. It defaults to Same as Price Gap, so nothing changes until you set it, and it only applies when Lead-Time Offers is set to Compete.
Pause Repricing Without Losing Your Settings
Pause Repricing stops an offer from repricing until the end of a day you choose, then picks up again on its own, so auto-pricing stays switched on and there is nothing to remember to turn back on. There are shortcuts for the end of today, the end of this week and the end of this month, or you can pick any date, and Resume Now ends a pause early. Pause on a Friday until the end of the week, for example, and repricing resumes first thing on Monday. While an offer is paused, TSeller leaves its price completely alone — no repricing, no daily reset and no alerts — and every rule you set is still there when it resumes. Use it whenever a price needs to hold: a product that is out of stock until your next delivery, a Takealot promotion you have committed to, or a supplier price change you are still working through.
The Core Rules, Easier to Read
The rules you already use are on the same card. Check Frequency sets how often TSeller checks the offer, from every six minutes to every four hours. Price Gap sets how far below the cheapest rival you price, from R1 to R100. Daily Reset returns the offer to its preferred price at midnight so it starts each day at full margin. External Offers lets you paste the URL of another Takealot listing selling the same product, and the repricer prices against it as if it were a rival on your own listing; each external offer uses one tracking slot. Reset All returns every offer to the defaults — six minutes, R1, daily reset off, compete with lead-time offers, same gap, not paused — if you want a clean start. Check frequency, price gap and daily reset work on Makro and Amazon too, from the same Buy Box page; lead-time offers, pause and external offers are Takealot features for now.
Conclusion
The repricer's job is to win the Buy Box without giving away more margin than it has to, and these rules give you finer control over exactly where that line sits. Ignore the rivals who are not really competing for the same customer, give the rest a gap that suits them, and pause when a price needs to hold. Start your free 14-day trial at https://tseller.co.za, or if you are already a TSeller user, open Buy Box, choose Advanced Rules from Quick Actions, and set up your first offer.
