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.

Listings writtenCatalogue kept completeImages and attributesEvery channel

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

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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 VA is for

Brands launching products monthly Your VA turns each spec into consistent listings on every channel.
Sellers with thin product attributes Missing sizes, colours and dimensions filled in priority order.
Stores with inconsistent listings One name, one price and the right image on every channel.
Sellers with suppressed listings Your VA fixes suppressed Amazon listings and keeps them compliant.

Product listing virtual assistant with a catalogue progress card: new items, descriptions, photos

Cost Comparison

What a listing VA costs depends on where you hire

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.

A dedicated Ant Assist VA compared with a UK in-house hire and a UK agency, full time.
	RecommendedAnt Assist£1,040 a month£800 a month for the first 6 months at £5/hour	UK in-house hire~£3,100/mo	UK agencyapprox. £3,500 to £4,500
Who manages the work	IncludedOur UK team supervises	Not includedYou do	PartlyThe agency
Recruitment and onboarding	IncludedIncluded	Not includedYou recruit and train	IncludedThe agency matches
Employer NI and pension	IncludedNone to pay	Not includedYou pay both	PartlyBuilt into the rate
Office and equipment	IncludedIncluded	Not includedYou provide	PartlyVaries by agency
Holiday and sick cover	IncludedCover provided	Not includedYou find cover	PartlyVaries by agency
Replacement if it is not right	IncludedReplaced, no restart cost	Not includedRe-hire from scratch	PartlyVaries by agency
Contract	IncludedRolling monthly, 30 days' notice	Not includedEmployment contract	PartlyVaries by agency

UK agency figures are an approximate range around the £25 per hour agency benchmark our calculator uses.

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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