So I was thinking about trying out selling on Walmart and giving FBW a try to see if it’s workable, so I created an account and did step 1 of the onboarding process which is to fill in some information about your company. I did that and after like 5 minutes I tried loading another page and was getting an error so I tried to log back in and got this message:
“Your application has been declined and access to your account is restricted.”
Didn’t even get so much as an email telling me the application was denied, let alone any kind of reasoning.
So I was wondering if anyone’s recently applied and/or has any idea what their requirements are. One issue I could see with my application is they had a mandatory field for website and I don’t have a website.
Yes they wanted to see that. We have websites for our company, and for each of our brands. We provided those.
They called us to “vet us” the only question they asked was if we had UPC codes for our products. We answered yes, and we happen to own them. And yes that is a thing. The (our) Corporation is older than dirt.
Thanks for the links, looking through the info there now.
I created another account and uploaded a website template and provided that, the application process seems to be moving forward somewhat now, at least it wasn’t instantly rejected like the previous attempt.
I applied a while ago. I think I finally got accepted when I lied with a high enough annual sales number.
Then I said I had 700 SKUs, and on Amazon I do, but I only listed 100 on Walmart. They emailed me and said loke Hey, you said you had 700? I have about 700 today.
In a Facebook Walmart sellers group, some people are getting told that maybe there’s already enough sellers in your category?
Ah makes sense. I would hope they have too many sellers now to have the manpower to do that. Personally I don’t want any unnecessary interaction with them.
The process seems very unprofessional right now tbh. Their onboarding video is a YOUTUBE video. A company of walmart’s size should not be using youtube to host that kind of thing.
Also, my first application was probably auto-denied because there was no actual website entered, though again, it’s kind of unprofessional that they just lock the account instead of providing any kind of meaningful notification. Even Amazon at that point would tell you to re-enter your information instead of just locking you out immediately.
Well, at least the Amazon Seller U pages don’t have ads on their videos (if they’re using youtube to host it they’re paying for it).
Walmart’s is a link to the youtube.com page and you have to watch an ad before it shows you the video. Would be pretty funny if Amazon made a special ad to target walmart’s seller video.
