E-commerce VA · Product Listings and Catalogue

Product Listing Virtual Assistant

A catalogue is never finished. One dedicated VA keeps every listing complete, consistent and inside each marketplace rule, so no gap costs you a sale. Here is what they do and what it costs.

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✓ From £5/hour ✓ UK-managed ✓ Dedicated VA, not shared ✓ No long-term contract

What They Handle

What a product listing VA does

Writes and optimises listings

Titles, bullet points, descriptions and backend keywords for Amazon; full product pages for Shopify; item specifics for eBay; from your product information and brand guidelines.

ShopifyAmazoneBay

Builds new products across channels

Takes a new product from your spec to a live listing on every channel, with the same facts, the same images and the right attributes for each platform.

Keeps attributes and variants complete

Sizes, colours, materials, dimensions, compatibility: the fields that decide whether a product shows in a filter or a search.

Manages images and media

Names, orders, sizes and replaces images to each platform's requirements, and flags the products whose images are letting them down.

Audits the catalogue

Finds the incomplete, inconsistent and suppressed listings, fixes them in priority order, and reports what changed.

Prices, promotions and updates

Applies price changes, discounts and seasonal updates across channels in one pass, without a product being missed.

Dedicated vs project

A dedicated listing VA vs a one-off listing project

A one-off project gets the catalogue clean once. Six weeks later the new products, the price changes and the platform rule changes have started the drift again, and the agency that did the project has moved on.

A dedicated VA keeps the catalogue clean every day, learns your products and your brand voice once, and writes each new listing the way the last one was written. A UK team supervises quality; if the fit is wrong we replace the person and carry the handover. For catalogue work that is measured in accuracy at volume, continuity is the whole value.

Who It's For

Who a product listing virtual assistant is built for

Brands launching products every month

Every launch is a set of listings across every channel. A VA turns the spec into live, consistent listings while you work on the next product.

Sellers with large catalogues and thin attributes

Hundreds of products with missing sizes, colours or dimensions are hundreds of products invisible to filters. A VA fills the gaps in priority order.

Multi-channel stores fighting inconsistency

The same product with three names, two prices and one wrong image across three channels. A VA gives it one truth.

Marketplace sellers with suppressed listings

Amazon suppresses listings that break its rules; a VA who knows the rules fixes them and keeps them fixed.

Cost Comparison

What a listing VA costs depends on where you hire

The same work is priced very differently by market: a UK employee costs a salary plus employer costs and a desk, a UK freelancer or agency bills by the hour or the project, and an offshore marketplace leaves the managing to you. With Ant Assist the entry rate is £5 per hour for the first 6 months on the Entry tier, 3 months on Mid, 1 month on Expert. It covers your dedicated VA's time, our office facilities in Cairo, and the supervision and management that keep quality up.

Set that against a UK in-house e-commerce hire once salary, employer National Insurance, pension, holiday and a desk are counted; the comparison card on this page shows the calculator's model, and the full calculator gives your figures for your hours.

UK in-house hire

~£3,100/mo

~£37,205 / year

You save ~£24,725 a year

Ant Assist VA

£1,040/mo

£12,480 / year at the standard rate

UK In-House · Entry level

UK in-house e-commerce hire (calculator model)

£2,384 a month gross salary, full time (the calculator's ecommerce benchmark, ONS ASHE 2025)

Monthly salary£2,384

Benefits (5% of salary)£119

Equipment and office£442

Management time (2 hrs a week)£156

~£3,100/mo

~£37,205 / year

Ant Assist VA · Entry

Dedicated Product Listing Virtual Assistant

160 hrs a month · £5/hour for the first 6 months (£800/mo), then £6.50/hour on the ecommerce rate card

VA hours (160h × £6.50/hour standard rate)£1,040

Management and supervisionIncluded

Recruitment and onboardingIncluded

Office infrastructureIncluded

£1,040/mo

£12,480 / year at the standard rate

You save ~£24,725 / year at the standard rate (est.)

What the £5/hour entry rate includes

Dedicated VA, never shared
UK-hour aligned support
Management and supervision included
Recruitment and onboarding included
Office infrastructure included
VA replacement available
No NI, pension, or holiday costs
No long-term contract, rolling monthly

These are typical estimates. Get your exact numbers in the full calculator. Or read how much a virtual assistant costs in the UK.

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Process

How to hire a listing VA

First call

A short call about your tasks, your tools and the hours you need covered.

Matching

We pick a VA from our in-house team for your work and introduce them to you.

Onboarding

Together we write down your rules and set up your access before day one.

Live

Your VA starts on your hours from our managed office, supervised from the UK.

Ongoing management

A UK team reviews the work each week; hours scale up or down as you need.

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Why Managed

Why a managed listing VA beats a project or a freelancer

Managed, not just placed.

Your VA is recruited, trained and supervised from our own in-house office. Not a project, not a freelancer profile.

Replaceable without restart cost.

If the fit is wrong, we replace the VA and carry the handover. No re-recruitment, no starting from zero.

No NI, pension, or holiday overhead.

One hourly rate; the employment costs sit with us.

Language and cultural alignment with UK customers.

Trained on your brand voice before they write a listing.

Your data stays yours.

Every VA signs an NDA and a data-processing agreement, works inside your accounts through password managers, and you can revoke access at any time.

Rolling monthly.

Scale hours up or down, pause, or cancel with 30 days' notice.

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FAQ

Common questions about hiring a product listing virtual assistant

New listings written from your product information and brand guidelines, in the right shape for each platform: full product pages for Shopify, titles, bullet points, descriptions and backend keywords for Amazon, item specifics for eBay. Existing listings are kept complete and consistent, images named and ordered to each platform's requirements, and a short report says what was created, fixed or flagged.

Yes. A catalogue audit finds the suppressed, incomplete and inconsistent listings first, then fixes them in priority order: the bestsellers with missing attributes before the long tail. Amazon suppressions are corrected within Amazon's rules, and the fix is recorded so the same product does not drift again next month.

From you: your spec sheets, supplier data, images and brand guidelines. The VA turns that into listings and never invents a claim, a dimension or a compatibility note that is not in your source material. Gaps in the source data are listed back to you as questions rather than filled in.

Your brand guidelines and your existing best listings are the onboarding material, and the first listings are reviewed by you before the VA writes at volume. After that, each new listing is written the way the approved ones were, and a UK team supervises the quality.

One product record, one set of facts and images, and the platform-specific fields added for each channel. Price changes, discounts and seasonal updates are applied across all channels in one pass, and the audit checks that the same product carries the same name, price and images everywhere.

The entry rate is £5 per hour for the first 6 months on the Entry tier. After the promotion the e-commerce rate card applies: £6.50 per hour full time, £1,040 a month for 160 hours, or £6.80 per hour part time, £544 a month for 80 hours. For a large backlog, hours can start high for the clean-up and settle to a maintenance level afterwards without penalty.

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