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WFS Prep Services
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Overview

The Prep Services program allows you to outsource inventory preparation to WFS for a small fee. It’s a great option if you lack the time, infrastructure or available labor to prepare your Walmart-fulfilled items correctly and consistently.

How it works

When you create inbound orders in Seller Center, you can choose prep services for your Walmart-fulfilled items. When your items arrive at your assigned fulfillment center, we’ll complete your requested prep and make the items available on Walmart.com.  We’ll prioritize items with scheduled prep services over items with unplanned prep. We also charge a fee to correct inbound items that require unplanned prep work (e.g., missing labels or incorrect packaging). 

Fees & unplanned prep

By using Prep Services, your items will comply with WFS packing and label requirements, as stated in the WFS Routing Guide. That helps us receive your items more efficiently. If you prepare your own items, they must meet the same requirements. Inbound items that don’t may be refused or delayed at the fulfillment center. If items require unplanned prep work (e.g., missing labels or incorrect packaging) at the fulfillment center, we’ll charge an extra $0.20 per unit on top of the usual Prep Services fee. Specifically, we’ll:

  1. Accept the items and correct them on your behalf.
  2. Process the items.
  3. Issue the unplanned prep fee to your account.

The unplanned prep fee will cover labor and material costs required to fix your items. We’ll prepare and process the items according to WFS facility timelines, which may take up to 10 business days.    

Service

Description

Prep Service fee

Unplanned prep fee

Poly bagging

We’ll package each sellable unit in a loose, clear bag to protect it during storage and fulfillment. If the original label isn’t scannable after we poly bag, we may have to add new labels to the bag.

$0.60 per unit

$0.80 per unit

Item labeling

We’ll place a readable, scannable label on every sellable unit and ensure that each item is properly labeled, received and stored

$0.45 per unit

$0.65 per unit

Add a prep service

Use one of these methods to request prep services for your items:

Shipments page

  1. Log into Seller Center and go to Shipments.
  2. Select Send inventory and choose items.
  3. In the Pack & label column, select prep services options for each item.
  4. Update the quantity for each item to see a price estimate.
  5. Submit your inbound order.

You won’t be able to modify the prep services settings after you submit your inbound order. If you need to make a change, cancel the order and create a new one. 

API

Go to the Developer Portal for details about integrating your item labeling preferences with our Create Inbound Shipment API. Before you ship your items, please print your shipment labels using your usual process. If you requested prep services for any items, "Prep Required" will appear on the shipment labels.

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