Every yard has the same problem sitting in its yard. The excavator was bought, stripped and racked months ago. The money went out the day it arrived, and now a perfectly good hydraulic pump, a straight bucket, a tested starter motor sit there earning nothing, waiting for the one customer who happens to phone or already knows to visit. Meanwhile, somewhere in the country, someone is searching online for exactly that part right now. They just have no way of knowing it's on your rack.
That's the gap Kasi Plant closes. We're a listings and part-finder marketplace for used plant (construction/earthmoving) and agricultural machinery and parts in South Africa. The people who come here aren't browsing general classifieds; they arrived searching for a specific part or machine, usually with the make, model and application already in mind. Your stock in front of that buyer is a different proposition from your stock in front of everyone and no one on a general platform.
What listing actually involves
Less than you'd expect, deliberately.
Send us your current stock list, any format you already keep it in, however rough. We bulk-import it and your listings go live the same day. No signup forms, no waiting period, no approval queue dragging on for a week.
Photos are optional. If you have them, good, parts sell faster with photos. If you don't, text-only listings go up now and photos can follow whenever you get to them.
Buyers contact you directly on WhatsApp. Every listing carries a WhatsApp button that opens a chat straight to your number: no message relay through us, no login for the buyer, no login for you.
What it costs: the honest version
Listing is free. No signup fee, no subscription, no minimum term. When a buyer finds your part on the site and WhatsApps you, that sale is yours. We take no fee and no commission on it. Not a percentage, not a listing charge later, nothing. You keep 100%.
So where do we make money? One place only: our part-finder service. When a buyer submits a specific part or machine request through us and we do the work of sourcing it (phoning around, checking condition, arranging the deal) we may add a brokerage fee or markup on that specific transaction. That fee is agreed with you at the time, on that deal, out in the open. It is never deducted from your own listings, because there's nothing to deduct it from.
This adds to what you already do. It doesn't replace it
Keep your Facebook page, your regulars, your other channels. There's no exclusivity in the agreement, so you can list the same stock everywhere at once. Kasi Plant is one more channel pointed at a better-targeted audience, at a price of zero. When a part sells somewhere else first, tell us on WhatsApp and we take the listing down. That's the entire admin burden, and there's no lock-in either — either side can end the arrangement at any time, just by saying so in writing.
How it works
- WhatsApp us that you want to list, and send your stock list: spreadsheet, any format.
- We bulk-import it. Your listings are live the same day, marked as a registered business/yard.
- Buyers WhatsApp you directly. You quote, you sell, you keep everything.
- Separately, when our part-finder gets a request matching your stock, we contact you, agree the deal and the fee on that transaction, and bring you a sale you'd never have seen.
- A part sells elsewhere? Message us and it comes down. Want to stop entirely? Say so and it's done.
Start with one stock list
The stock is already paid for. The buyers are already searching. The only thing between the two is a listing, and the listing is free. WhatsApp us your stock list and it's live today.