Follow our list of best practices below to navigate through the holiday season with ease and to ensure your business remains uninterrupted during peak holiday traffic. For example, learn how to set up push notifications for cancelled orders or when an item gets unpublished, find out how to customize your fulfillment settings for non-working days using the Calendar Day API, and see which feeds you should use to avoid additional throttling.
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Even though some gifts may not always be the perfect fit, you can still help keep customers happy by providing a seamless refund experience. For example, when handling refunds using the Refund Order Lines API, be sure to input the tax dollar amount to fully refund the customer. If you leave the tax amount empty, or with a zero value, the customer will not receive a full refund. Ensure a great customer experience this holiday and get a refresher on how to properly fetch the API below.
Don’t forget to take advantage of heightened traffic on Walmart.com and offer promo pricing on your top-rated, must-have products. When setting up promo pricing, submit dates in ISO-8601 format with UTC offsets to avoid errors and submit feeds at least 24 hours before the promo start date. Also, make sure you frequently monitor your items to ensure your prices stay competitive and don’t become unpublished or lose the Buy Box. Read through the Promotions API guide below for more tips on how to implement promo pricing.
As a reminder, on November 25 the Pre-generated Item Report Version 2 will no longer be available for use. Any attempts to download Version 2 of the report after this date, will return an HTTP code 404 error. Moving forward, sellers will need to use Version 3 to get the Pre-generated Item Report. Please update your integration with the new query parameters below to ensure a smooth transition to Version 3.
In the Developer Portal, we have listed all the fields that are present in Version 3 of the Item Report. Please handle the parsing logic with additional fields/columns to avoid breaking the consumer code.
Soon, sellers will have a more accurate idea of how much inventory is available to sell and how much is reserved by viewing the reservedQty attribute in the Inventory APIs. The attribute will display the number of items that have been ordered by a customer but have not shipped from a fulfillment center–which will help you better determine when to replenish inventory on-hand and avoid shipping delays. Stay tuned for more updates.
You can reference the GET Single Item Inventory by Ship Node here, the GET Multiple Item Inventory for All Ship Nodes here.
Due to recent infrastructure maintenance, we have removed Pre-Generated Reports for terminated Marketplace sellers. In the future, we will preserve Pre-Generated Reports for terminated sellers and notify all Solution Providers before any scheduled maintenance.
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