Monitor item listing quality
Overview
After items are published to Walmart.com, use the listing quality APIs to monitor catalog health, identify unpublished items, review listing quality scores, and discover opportunities to improve item visibility and performance.
These APIs help sellers and channel partners understand how content, discoverability, offers, ratings, and reviews affect listing quality.
Review listing quality
Use the following APIs to evaluate the quality of your item listings and understand how listing quality impacts item visibility and customer engagement.
Item listing quality details
Use the item listing quality details API to retrieve listing quality information for individual items.
The response includes:
- Overall item quality score
- Post-purchase quality score
- Listing quality issues
- Historical quality score trends
You can use this information to identify content, discoverability, offer, ratings, and reviews issues affecting individual items.
Seller listing quality score
Use the seller listing quality score API to retrieve the overall listing quality score for your catalog.
The score is based on several listing quality dimensions, including:
- Content
- Discoverability
- Offer
- Ratings
- Reviews
Issues in these categories can negatively impact the overall catalog score.
Identify listing quality issues
Item count with listing quality issues
Use the item count with listing quality issues API to identify categories or brands that contain items with listing quality issues.
This API can help you:
- Identify areas of your catalog that need attention
- Prioritize content improvements
- Improve listing quality and discoverability
Investigate unpublished items
Unpublished item counts
Use the unpublished item counts API to retrieve counts of unpublished items grouped by unpublished reason.
The response includes:
- Count of unique item SKUs unpublished for a specific reason
- Unpublished reason code
- Total cost associated with unpublished items for that reason
This information can help prioritize remediation efforts across your catalog.
Unpublished items
Use the unpublished items API to retrieve detailed information about unpublished items for a specific unpublished reason code.
Review the returned unpublished reason and item details to determine the corrective actions required before republishing the item.
To resolve unpublished item issues, refer to Bulk item maintenance and update the affected items as needed.
Related guides
- Bulk item maintenance
- Search for all items in the seller's catalog
- Search for an item in the seller's catalog
- Get item count by status