Settings Management overview
As a Walmart seller, you can manage your shipping fulfillment with Settings Management or Simplified Shipping Settings, depending on your needs.
1. Settings Management
Walmart’s legacy shipping template settings allow sellers to define and manage their own transit times. Sellers are responsible for maintaining legacy shipping template settings, so delivery promises on Walmart.com remain accurate for their products. Sellers are also held accountable for late deliveries due to misconfigured transit times.
You may need to use a shipping template if you:
- Use domestic carrier services other than USPS, UPS, or FedEx
- Require international shipping
- Want to ship with Freight carrier services
2. Simplified Shipping Settings
The Simplified Shipping Settings (SSS) is the alternate solution to legacy shipping templates on Walmart Marketplace that creates accurate delivery promises by generating dynamic transit times for your configured carrier service.
Simplified Shipping Settings enables sellers to manage shipping configurations (free or paid) for their assortment. It requires minimum coverage across the 48 contiguous U.S. states. Shipping coverage for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands is optional.
Based on the carrier services configured, the platform derives dynamic transit times based on customer proximity, carrier performance, and network data.
About fulfillment center settings
Market availability: Canada and Mexico
You can use the Settings API to change the fulfillment centers and the shipping program you elect for your items (such as Standard shipping).
Fulfillment centers were also known as “Ship Nodes,” so you might see some parameter names with Ship Node nomenclature.
You can manage your Fulfillment Centers (Ship Nodes) through the following Apis:
While creating and updating fulfillment centers, you can pass in an optional Calendar Day Configuration block. This calendar day configuration block provides the flexibility to define Working Days of Week (days on which there is active order processing) along with the cutoff time (time at which order processing stops for the day) for each day in respective timezones. In addition to that, there is a provision for defining additional non-working dates for a fulfillment center (ship node). There is no default Working Days of a Week.
If the cutoff time is not explicitly configured for a fulfillment center, the default is taken as 2 pm in the center’s respective time zone. The configuration is done in 24-hour format (HH:mm), and any value from 00:00 (midnight)to 23:59 (11:59 pm.) can be set.
To fetch the Calendar Day Configuration for a fulfillment center, use the optional includeCalendarDayConfiguration flag in the URL. For fulfillment centers where no calendar day configuration is set explicitly, no Calendar Day Configuration will be present while fetching.
You can also access fulfillment and shipping choices via Walmart Seller Center. The APIs in the Developer Portal, Marketplace Settings Program, use the standard header parameters.
Download the Shipping API JSON Schema from:
About shipping templates
Market availability: Canada
Shipping Templates can support a fast and precise delivery experience to bridge the gap between promise and actual delivery time. The Settings API allows you to create and manage these settings as a Shipping Template.
You can create a shipping template to specify faster shipping for specific regions. First, specify the regions and the shipping speed at which buyers in that region can receive their items. Next, assign the product SKU to that shipping template.
These APIs can be integrated directly, and changes can be accessed using the Walmart Seller Center. Like other APIs in the Developer Portal, they use the standard header parameters.
Download the Shipping Templates APIs JSON Schema from:
MPShippingTemplatesJsonSchema.zip
Settings Management API features
Use the following Settings Management API features to create and manage your shipping configurations.
Get shipping template
The Get shipping template details API gives you specific shipping configurations for a single shipping template.
Update shipping templates
The Update shipping templates API lets you modify configurations on an existing shipping template, such as shipping methods, regions, transit times, and pricing rules.
Delete shipping templates
The Delete shipping templates API lets you permanently remove existing shipping templates from Walmart Marketplace settings.
Get all fulfillment centers
The Get all fulfillment centers API retrieves fulfillment centers (also known as ship nodes) information on your account.
Update fulfillment center
The Update fulfillment center API helps you update your existing fulfillment centers (also known as a ship nodes) configuration in Marketplace Settings.
Create fulfillment center
The Create fulfillment center API sets up new fulfillment centers (also known as ship nodes) in Walmart Marketplace Settings.
Get account level settings
The Get account level settings API retrieves account-level shipping settings such as calendar day configurations, weekends, and additional days off.
Update account level settings
The Update account level settings API allows you to configure account-level calendar settings that impact shipping calculations and delivery promise logic.
Create account level settings
The Create account level settings API lets you establish account level calendar configuration for your shipping operations.
Get all shipping templates
The Get all shipping templates API retrieves a list of all shipping templates configured on your account.
Create shipping templates
The Create shipping templates API allows sellers to create custom shipping templates that define shipping methods, transit times, pricing logic, and geographic coverage.
Third-party fulfillment center association
The Third-party fulfillment center association API allows sellers to activate or update the status of 3PL (third-party logistics) ship nodes associated with your Marketplace account.
- Third-party fulfillment center association Guide
- Third-party fulfillment center association API Reference Guide
Get shipping configurations
The Get shipping configurations API retrieves account-level shipping profile settings associated on your account.
Get shipping template activation status
The Get shipping template activation status API allows sellers to retrieve the current activation state of shipping templates at the account level.
Get coverage for fulfillment centers
The Get coverage for fulfillment centers API retrieves the geographic coverage areas associated with each fulfillment center (ship node) configured under a seller account.
Get carrier methods
The Get carrier methods API retrieves the list of carrier methods available for use in Marketplace shipping configurations.
Get all third-party fulfillment providers
The Get all third-party fulfillment providers API retrieves all third-party fulfillment providers (3PLs) available on the Walmart marketplace.
- Get all third-party fulfillment providers Guide
- Get all third-party fulfillment providers API Reference Guide
Get partner configurations
The Get partner configurations API retrieves seller-level profile information and system configuration settings associated with a Marketplace partner account.
Entity match
The Entity match API gives Payout Service Providers (PSPs) access to seller entity data.
Updated 20 days ago