Set up and manage items

To complete Item Setup, follow the steps below:

1. Send an item feed to Walmart by calling Bulk Create/Update Items with an attached XML file. Go to Items > Bulk Item Setup to make the initial API request that starts the ingestion and publish process for each item you send in the API call. The response returns a Feed ID that you can use to monitor all items you want to ingest. API call is the starting point of the ingestion/publishing process for each item in the XML file. This call returns a Feed ID. Use the Feed ID to monitor items that are being ingested.

2. Monitor the feed and the item submission status. Go to Feeds > Get feed and item status to retrieve all details about the Feed status. Once the Feed has a status of PROCESSED (i.e. the Feed is complete), all of the items have either been submitted or have submission errors.
   Note: The first items may be successfully submitted days before the last items get submitted.

3. Monitor the published status of the submitted items. Go to Item > Get an item to check the status. Once the status of an item is PUBLISHED, it can be edited further.Note: Status calls might return errors on individual items. Examine the errors that are returned, correct them and then mark them for re-ingestion. A typical strategy for fixing an error is to first check the XML against the XSDs and then create a case for Partner Support.

4. (Recommended): To change the price of your items, go to Price > Update a price. You can update prices in bulk. Although this is not required, it’s a good practice to verify prices, because desired item prices can change after you initiate the ingestion process.

Update inventory for one or more items. Go to Inventory > Update inventory or Inventory > Bulk update.

Note: In an Item feed, if you send HTML content as a value to shortDescription you have to do character encoding to the HTML tags. If you send direct HTML tags, they will appear as is in the Description of an Item on lider.cl.

Published status

The published status of an item describes where the item is in the submission process.

1. PUBLISHED: The item is visible on lider.cl and available for sale.

2. READY_TO_PUBLISH: The item is in the final staging process and is ready to be published.

3. IN_PROGRESS: The item is processing. An error could still occur at this point.

4. UNPUBLISHED: The item has been made unavailable on lider.cl because of backend rules, such as not having inventory for too long or problems with images.

5. STAGE: The item is in the final staging process but has not been published because the Seller has not gone live.

6. SYSTEM_PROBLEM: The item cannot be published. Contact Partner Support.

Lifecycle status

The lifecycle status of an item describes where the item listing is in the overall lifecycle.

1. ACTIVE: The item’s offer is current.

2. RETIRED: The offer has moved past its expiration date (as set in the EndDate field). The item is not visible on lider.cl. It can be made ACTIVE again by extending the expiration date into the future.

3. ARCHIVED: The offer has been in RETIRED status for over a year. To return the listing to the ACTIVE status, contact Partner Support.