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Convert Your Existing Items to the Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) Program
Last updated on Nov 4, 2024
Reading time: 8 min
Overview

Before selling with Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS), you must convert your existing items from Seller- fulfilled to Walmart-fulfilled. You can quickly convert a single item to WFS or multiple items by GTIN match in Seller Center. 

Before You Start

Ensure your items are set up as seller-fulfilled first, without errors, and are not  WFS prohibited products.

Convert a Single Item to WFS

  1. Click on the Catalog link in the left navigation pane in Seller Center.
  2. Search for your item by SKU, Walmart item ID, GTIN, UPC or Name.
  3. Scroll to the end of the row and select the three dots. Choose Fulfill with WFS from the options.

4. Fill in the Item Content and Fulfillment & Compliance tabs with new information for your Walmart-fulfilled item.


Convert Multiple Items to WFS by GTIN Match

  
  1. Click on the Catalog link in the left navigation pane in Seller Center.
  2. Click on Update Items and choose Update with GTINs. 

3. Select Convert to WFS and enter the GTINs which you would like to convert in the text box below and click on download. We'll generate a template with your items. 


By matching through GTIN, we’ll populate the spec with information that’s already in our catalog. Just enter your GTINs, separated by commas, in the text box. (If you don’t know an item’s GTIN, look it up in your  Inventory page.) If there are any errors, you won’t be able to download the spec. Here are common issues:

  • Submitting items that are in more than seven categories at once
  • Entering invalid GTINs
  • Entering more than the 5,000 GTIN limit
4. If there are no errors, you will see GTINs successfully submitted and you can click on Go to Activity Feed.
Once your submitted GTINs are approved, it may take time to process the spec. Select Refresh if you don’t see a new line appear in the download field. When your file is ready to download, the status column will say Processed.

5. Download the file from the Action column and fill out the spec with the mandatory information.

Pro tip

The spec will be pre-filled with the existing information from the seller fulfilled listing, but you might have to fill-in few other required attributes along with the complete Trade item configurations sheet.

Fill out the template

  1. Open the template.
  2. Fill in your data. Once you start filling out the fields, you will notice that some fields require you to select from a drop-down menu while others are free-text fields.
  3. In these tabs there are sections of attributes such as:
    • SKU of your product
    • Required for Walmart Fulfillment Services, you need to provide a value for all these attributes for successful conversion of your items.
    • Required for Compliance Verification, provide these values if your items fall under compliance products.
    • Conditional / Required for Hazardous Material.
    • Required for the item to be visible on Walmart.ca
    • Recommended to improve search and browse on Walmart.ca.
    • Recommended to create aa variant experience on Walmart.ca.
    • Optional attributes
  4. Please fill the tab Trade Item Configurations for all the items you want to create. In this tab there are sections of attributes such as:
    • SKU of your product
    • Required for Walmart Fulfillment Services, you need to provide a value for all these attributes for successful conversion of your items.
    • Required for Walmart's Supply Chain
  5. Save the template file.

     

Upload and Submit the Spec.

  1. Click on the Catalog link in the left navigation pane in Seller Center.
  2. Click on the Add Items button on the top right screen.
  3. Attach the completed Walmart template by either dragging and dropping your file or clicking on the browse option. 
  4. Click Next to submit the file. 

Notes

If you attach the wrong file type (png, xls, jpg, etc.), an error message will appear until you attach the right file type. .

Track Your Feed Status

You can track the status of your files on the Activity Feed page. Please note that there is an SLA of 4 hours for the feeds to be processed.

To access the Activity Feed page:
  1. Click on the Catalog link in the left navigation pane in Seller Center.
  2. Click on the Activity Feed.

The Feed Status page shows the following information. 
 



Column Type

 

Description



Feed ID

 

The reference ID of your feed. 



Date

 

The date the file was submitted and began processing.



Status

 

The status of that specific file.



Submitted

 

The number of SKUs that were submitted in the file.



Processed

 

The number of SKUs that were processed successfully.



Pending 

 

The number of SKUs that are still pending Item Setup completion.



Errors

 

The number of errors encountered. The numbers in this field link to the error message page.



Error File

 

Link to download the errors into a CSV file.

 
  • To see the errors for the SKUs you submitted, locate the Errors column header. 
  • In the Errors column, click the eye icon. You will be taken to a page that has a list of the SKUs in your file/feed that have errors, as well as the reason for the error. You can also download your Activity Feed as an Excel file. 
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Resolve Any Errors

  1. Examine the Activity Feed page for the locations of the errors.
  2. In the Spec, locate and resolve the errors listed in the Activity Feed page. Then, save the template in the correct file format.
  3. Re-upload the corrected template in Seller Center.
  4. Track the status of this new feed and verify that the errors are resolved.
 

Track the Status of Your Items

You can track the status of each item from the Catalog page once your feed has been submitted. Under the quick filters select Seller Fulfilled (WFS eligible), then filter the SKU details by that specific SKU. Once the feed is processed the item will go to the published status.

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