As a Walmart seller, you can manage your shipping orders fulfillment with legacy shipping template settings or Simplified Shipping Settings, depending on your needs.

1. Legacy shipping template settings

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 that result from misconfigured transit times.

You may need to use a legacy 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

Simplified Shipping Settings (SSS) is the alternate solution to legacy manual templates on Walmart Marketplace that creates much more 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. 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 Simplified Shipping Settings system derives dynamic transit times based on customer proximity, carrier performance, and network data.

The advantages of Simplified Shipping Settings are:

• Sellers switching from manual templates to Simplified Shipping Settings cut promise times by over a day and typically see a 10% boost in sales.
• Move away from managing templates and transit times. Configure your settings once and let the automation handle the rest.
• Ship to zip codes where your selected service delivers faster, without raising fulfillment costs.
• Don't worry about carrier delays, focus on shipping orders on time with your configured service.

Simplified Shipping Settings API features

Use the following Simplified Shipping Settings API features to create and manage your shipping configurations.

Create Simplified Shipping Settings (required) 

Run this call once to set up your default configurations.

Your default settings are automatically applied to all items and fulfillment centers, eliminating the need for manual template-to-item mappings. If certain items or fulfillment centers require differentiated shipping setups that do not align with your default settings, you can easily create customized configurations. Once you define a rule, the Simplified Shipping Settings system automatically finds the relevant matching items and applies the right configurations. If no custom configurations apply for the item, the default settings continue to apply.

For example, if the majority of your assortment ships by UPS Ground, you can set up UPS Ground as your default configuration. If you have items under 1 lb that always ship by USPS, you can create a custom configuration for the items.

• Shipping services priority: When you have two or more shipping services in Simplified Shipping Settings, your shipping priority determines which service is used to make delivery promises to customers. You may choose from the following options:
  • Prioritize speed (recommended): Walmart automatically selects the service with the shortest transit time to ensure the fastest possible delivery for each order.
  • Prioritize cost savings: Walmart selects the service with the longest transit time from your warehouse to ship to the customer, which is often the most cost-effective option.
• Migrate your items from legacy templates to Simplified Shipping Settings to create more accurate delivery dates for your customers and simplify shipping configuration with a single click. The migration process is automatic, reversible, and takes up to 6 hours to complete.

Note: Simplified Shipping Settings does not yet support freight, bundle, virtual pack, or ship to store items. Support for these item types is coming soon. In the meantime, you can still migrate and benefit the rest of your assortment with the Bulk Item Migration for Simplified Shipping Configuration feature:

• migrateEligibleOffers = true
• migrateEligibleOffers = false: This keeps offers in the manual template. You can migrate offers to Simplified Shipping Settings in batches later.

Create Simplified Shipping Settings

Get Simplified Shipping Settings (optional) 

Retrieve the current account-level rules and any fulfillment center overrides.

Get Simplified Shipping Settings

Update Simplified Shipping Settings (optional) 

Modify carriers, shipping priority, or region coverage if your business needs a shipping modification.

Update Simplified Shipping Settings

Update FC (fulfillment center) level Simplified Shipping Settings (optional)

Apply shipping rules to a single fulfillment center without changing your account-level rule.

Update FC level Simplified Shipping Settings

Bulk item migration for Simplified Shipping Settings configuration (optional) 

Move offers from manual templates to Simplified Shipping Settings.

Use this call when you:

• Chose migrateEligibleOffers = false during setup and want to migrate to the Simplified Shipping Settings.
• Need to migrate only specific SKUs instead of every eligible offer.
• Add new SKUs later that are still on legacy templates.

Bulk item migration for Simplified Shipping Settings configuration