Getting started with Walmart

Guess you beat the system…

They put that in place when they let China in 2 years ago.

Maybe they only enforce it for international sellers. :man_shrugging:

:sweat_smile: LOL it’s a sexual preference slur in the UK, heard used as such in Bridget Jones’s Diary.

@Pepper_Thine_Angus can we 86 is from our naughty list?

Guess I was right… Walmart doesn’t want to hear my opinion. :woman_facepalming:

The link to Walmart’s survey says… drum roll…

:unamused:

Now I’m really confused. I added an item while I was waiting for the verification process.

It’s been sitting there as a draft the whole time. I just went back in to increase the price, since Walmart wants us to use free shipping templates, did nothing but change the price - haven’t even been able to add a quantity for sale yet, and it sat greyed out and showed ‘Processing’ under status.

Now it’s completely gone. Not in draft. Not in Published. Not nowhere. :cry:

Where did it go? Does stuff just randomly disappear periodically? Not sure what to make of it, but I’m too tired to start over. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe, if I’m lucky, it will have reappeared by then.

The Walmart user interface can be very glitchy.

Fixed

Ditto for us. The detailed payment report won’t be available to print until Wednesday, if you need that sort of thing.

For me they give me more regions than Amazon AND you can restrict sales in certain areas if applicable. We did create a paid shipping template for one item that wasn’t a good fit for mandatory free shipping.

Just have one, very easy

Then the 2 day section

You need to download a spreadsheet that will link the template with the location from where you’re shipping and the sku.

The template and the location are a bunch of numbers assigned by Walmart (see for instance my template ID on the screenshots. I didn’t come up with that string of numbers). There’s a hyperlink on the template that gives you the codes for the shipping templates or the location

Yes, your actions on Wally are very ephemeral and not set in stone. Prices change randomly, shipping templates get disregarded, state restrictions are allegedly enforced, but you can expect surprises. Walmart requires a lot of micromanaging
You’ve also read about the problems with VTR, there are a couple threads where we have cried over how useless the system is.

I’d recommend caution,

You represent and warrant that you are registering with the Walmart.com Marketplace on behalf of an entity and that you have the requisite right, power, and authority to enter into this Agreement on behalf of the entity you register with the Walmart.com Marketplace

Is from Article I: INTRODUCTION of Wal-Mart’s COMPREHENSIVE WALMART MARKETPLACE PROGRAM RETAILER AGREEMENT (Terms and Conditions for Walmart Marketplace Program, Walmart Fulfillment Services, and Walmart Ad Center), I’m not an attorney, but that language seems to preclude Sole Proprietorships :man_shrugging:

I am not responsible for the Wal Mart operations in any way, but from what my partners tell me, when we first started with WalMart, the sheer amount of ineptitude was more staggering than Amazon by a factor of 10.
Poor interface, poor operations, poor support, and fewer customers per listing.

We left Ebay because the amount of customer service needed to support ebay customers was too high for items requiring installation on a car/truck/tractor. (tractor owners tend to be the most capable).

Does anyone using the Walmart platform see businesses buying? I don’t believe they have any type of B2B system like Amz, right?

I don’t think we’re an obvious fit, and the LAST thing I need is another project…but hearing some of the experiences piques by interest.

Since we are out in the darn field, and have to figure it out or starve/not deliver/catch heck when we get home.

@Roxy we use Payoneer on Walmart, works fine for us, a sale, that has to always ship the same day, results in a bank transfer in 24 hours or less.

Haven’t seen anything like that from them.

Before they get to that, they should work on a seller App. It’s 2023 I think… :roll_eyes:

It’s astonishingly unbelievable that they don’t have a seller App.

I do get some commercial addresses as customers, but then again, my products are mostly industrial/commercial

I’d think that probably 80% of my Walmart orders go to residential addresses (maybe 60% on Amazon?), honestly haven’t checked.
There’s no B2B functionality in Walmart that I’m aware, but tbh, even in Amazon, most of the commercial accounts ship to residential addresses (which I hate as shipping residential is more expensive than shipping commercial).

I enjoy B2B more for buying than for selling. I have added my personal card to the company account, and do shop things that I’ll use at a personal level using the lower costs. But I never ship FBM Business price to my residential address.

:man_shrugging: I’m not sure if this is relevant…, but CNBC reports this afternoon…

CFO Michael Fiddelke said at a February investor day that the company is “not backing away from investments in our team and guest experience.”

You represent and warrant that you are registering with the Walmart.com Marketplace on behalf of an entity

… but that language seems to preclude Sole Proprietorships

Are you suggesting that a sole proprietor isn’t an ‘entity’? We’re certainly not a corporate entity, but I think we’d qualify as a human entity.

But I don’t really know either. You’d think (hope) that an online marketplace that’s trying to attract third-party sellers, of whom many, many are sole proprietors, would spell that out if we weren’t allowed.

But there definitely is a sense that most of their third-party sellers tend to be brands and brand owners, rather than mere resellers, like myself.

I was a little put off by their insistence/desire that you ship most orders the same day. I’ve switched my Amazon set-up to 2-day handling time, so I can skip a day if I don’t feel like shipping then. Walmart does seem skewed towards larger business operations that have set business hours and a workplace with employees that show up every day.

Instead of folks like me, where our operating hours are ‘whenever I feel like it and nothing good’s on tv’. :grin:

@TheOrangeCrush @ASV_Vites or anyone else who uses Payoneer, did they ask for a copy of your SS card during the set up?

After creating an account last night, they sent me an (apparently automated) follow-up email, asking me to send them a copy of my id and also of my SS card. I can’t remember if I did that when I set up eBay, but it seemed like an odd request.

Is it standard that they want a photo of your SS card?

I don’t believe we did that, no.

My memory of setting up Payoneer was that it was very easy to do, even without all my boss’ details.

I do think they required some business documents. Maybe it’s different for the individual?

Wasn’t asked for any of that and we just signed on in late Nov 22.

Signed up with an EIN so perhaps that’s the difference. Didn’t have to verify address or ID.