AI & Digital

E-Commerce Taxonomy Specialist

Correct and clean up chaotic online retail product sorting and tagging systems so buyers can find items.

Startup Cost: £0 Location: Remote/Home Difficulty: Easy Useful side income A few hours a week

Earning and time figures are our broad estimates, not guarantees — actual results depend on your area, your effort and demand.

Why it's left-field

You spend your day fixing human database errors at scale, deciding fine categorical lines like whether an item belongs in "appliances" or "cutlery".

How it works

  1. 1Review thousands of bulk automated merchant product sheets.
  2. 2Manually fix incorrect attributes, categories, or missing descriptive tags.
  3. 3Submit corrections via micro-task portals.

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