What's new

Introducing new features of the 2-Day Shipping Program that will enable sellers to differentiate between own order & 3PL order. Capabilities included as a part of the new features are -

1. Order segmentation by fulfilment node - Seller Node, 3PL Node
2. Order segmentation by shipping method - 2-Day

Change Summary :

1. Added shippingProgramType and shipNodeType as new query parameters, where
• shipNodeType can be either 3PLFulfilled or SellerFulfilled
• shippingProgramType can be TWO_DAY
2. Added shippingProgramType and shipNodeType to the API payload.

Orders APIs that have been updated to enable the new capabilities are :

1. Get All Orders API 
2. Get Released Orders API
3. Get An Order API

Updated API specification can be found here - https://developer.walmart.com/#/apicenter/marketPlace/latest#orderManagement
See knowledge base article here for more details on the new features.

Sellers will no longer be able to set new return restricted overrides on any of their items, with immediate effect. However, sellers can continue to delete any existing return restricted overrides.

For this, we have updated the Bulk Item Overrides API with these changes :-

isReturnRestricted - valid values : No
restrictionReason - removed

If 'Yes' is sent as a value for isReturnRestricted, this will not be accepted.

2-Day Shipping Program serves as a way for Walmart Marketplace sellers to offer free 2-Day delivery to our customers and gives an opportunity for Marketplace Sellers to grow their business – GMV lift, Conversion uplift, Buy Box & Search prominence, Increased 2-Day coverage.

Key features of the program are -

• Map and manage your unique fulfillment network
• Granular delivery regions to enable 2-Day SKUs
• System-generated 2-Day coverage areas identified for each Fulfilment Center

API specification can be found here - https://developer.walmart.com/#/apicenter/marketPlace/latest#shipnodeManagement

See knowledge base article for more details on the program.

We are giving our sellers the ability to add custom Seller Order ID and Return Center Address to shipping information in Orders and Returns. With 'Seller Order ID', sellers can add their customer order ID that maps to the seller's order system and helps them more easily to identify their return packages. With 'Return Center Address', sellers can specify the return center dynamically at the time of order shipping so that the return order can be shipped correctly to the returns center. 

We have made these parameters available in our APIs. 

Change Summary:

1. Shipping Updates API : Added sellerOrderId and returnCenterAddress
2. Get An Order API : Added sellerOrderId and returnCenterAddress
3. Get All Orders API : Added sellerOrderId and returnCenterAddress
4. Get Return API : Added sellerOrderId

In our last newsletter we released details about changes to Marketplace Returns program regarding return shipping fees, restocking fees and the refunds timeframe. To provide our customers with an improved "NO-COST" returns experience, we have removed the restocking fee and shipping fee from the Returns APIs.  For more information see policy details. 

Returns API change summary:

1. Get Returns API: restockingFeePercentage and return shipping fee will not be passed if value is null or 0
2. Issue Refund API: removed applyShippingFee, restockingFeePercentage, overrideReason from “overrides"
3. Bulk Override API: removed ShippingFee, restockingFeePercentage from “overrides”

The changes will be effective July 31 2019. After July 31, sellers will not be able to apply restocking or shipping fees to the customers. If applied, it will be ignored for backward compatibility.

For the existing Returns where restocking fee or shipping fee is already applied, the returns will be processed with the fees.