Product listing virtual assistant managing a catalogue
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 ✓ 3-month probation, no penalty to leave
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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.

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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.

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Keeps attributes and variants complete

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

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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.

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Audits the catalogue

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

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Prices, promotions and updates

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

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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 drift has started again, and the agency that did the project has moved on.

A dedicated VA keeps the catalogue clean every day and writes each new listing the way the last one was written. A UK team supervises quality.

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Dedicated listing VA

How it works
Keeps the catalogue clean every day
After delivery
Writes each new listing as the last was written
Best for
Catalogue work measured in accuracy at volume
Ant Assist fit
UK team supervises; replaced with handover if needed

One-off listing project

How it works
Gets the catalogue clean once
After delivery
Drift starts again within six weeks
Best for
Cleaning up a catalogue once
Ant Assist fit
Not provided by Ant Assist

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Who It's For

Who a product listing VA is for

  1. Brands launching products monthly Your VA turns each spec into consistent listings on every channel.
  2. Sellers with thin product attributes Missing sizes, colours and dimensions filled in priority order.
  3. Stores with inconsistent listings One name, one price and the right image on every channel.
  4. 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

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.
What you get RecommendedAnt Assist UK in-house hire UK agency
Monthly cost Standard price £1,040 a month, introductory price £800 for the first 6 months ~£3,100 approx. £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 Included12-month term, 3-month probation Not includedEmployment contract PartlyVaries by agency

Entry offer: standard rate £6.50, introductory offer £5/hour for your first 6 months.

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
  • 3-month probation, no penalty to leave

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Process

How to hire a listing VA

1
First call
A short call about your tasks, your tools and the hours you need covered.
2
Matching
We pick a VA from our in-house team for your work and introduce them to you.
3
Onboarding
Together we write down your rules and set up your access before day one.
4
Live
Your VA starts on your hours from our managed office, supervised from the UK.
5
Ongoing management
A UK team reviews the work each week; hours scale up or down as you need.
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.
3-month probation, no penalty to leave.
The initial term is 12 months, including a 3-month probation in which you can end the engagement without penalty. After 12 months it continues monthly 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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