Set up and manage items

To complete Item Setup, follow the steps below:

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.
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.

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.
(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 Walmart.mx.

WFS Item Setup

WFS items can be setup using the following two methods if you are onboarded to the WFS program. Please note that if you are not onboarded to WFS, contact operations team for onboarding before creating WFS Eligible items.

WFS full item setup

To create new items with WFS, download the WFS full setup JSON schema: omniintl-wfssetup-es_mx-external.
Follow same steps as for item setup, but use feedType = OMNI_WFSSETUP.

WFS convert item setup

To convert an existing item to WFS eligible item, download the WFS Item conversion JSON schema: omniintl-wfsconvert-es_mx-external.
Follow same steps as for item setup, but use feedType = OMNI_WFSCONVERT.