GET Retrieve Items: Item Setup and Maintenance Implementation Guide

This section outlines a possible implementation plan. The subsections in the proposed implementation are:

Client-Side Statuses of Walmart Items
Sending Items for Ingestion
Checking Ingestion Status
Checking Published Status
Correcting Item Errors

Client-Side Statuses of Walmart Items (Legacy and New Item Setup)

For this implementation, we assume that suppliers will use their own client-side database to store the status of their items and feeds on Walmart.com. A possible set of statuses could be:

Status	Description	Comment
transmit	To be transmitted to Walmart	Can be set to this by the supplier deciding to sell item to Walmart, or by the system requesting a re-transmission because data errors were detected and fixed
data fix	Schema or content is incompatible with Walmart.com	Check the item feed file schema against the submitted JSON file
ingestion in progress	Item is in the ingestion process	No updates allowed at this time
publish in progress	Item is in publishing process	Ingestion is completed, but publishing must be completed before suppliers can add inventory
published	Item is published on Walmart.com	Inventory can be added, and the item can be seen by customers on Walmart.com
system error	An error was encountered during publishing	Contact Walmart Partner Support
unpublished	Not available on Walmart.com	Item is no longer visible on Walmart.com
data fix – ticket	Support ticket submitted	Underlying error status is data fix
systemerror – ticket	Support ticket submitted	Underlying error status is a system error

Feed Status	Feed Status	Comment
active	Has items that still need ingestion status checked	Do not archive or delete
archive	All items in the feed have finished processing	Archive the feed IDs or delete them

Sending Items for Ingestion

This flow describes how suppliers may want to send their items to Walmart and process immediate errors. On an initial ingestion, suppliers must use a setup feed file. Afterwards, suppliers are recommended to use an item maintenance feed file for updates.

Checking Ingestion Status (Legacy and New Item Setup)

The flow below describes how suppliers may monitor the status of their items as the items are ingested.

Checking Published Status (Legacy and Published)

The flow below describes how suppliers may monitor the status of their items as the items move through the publishing process.

Correcting Item Errors (Legacy and New Item Setup)

The flow below describes how suppliers may implement a process for correcting item errors. In addition to the flow below, suppliers may want to build their own process for correcting items and item statuses as Partner Support responds to support cases.