Settings Management overview

As a Walmart seller, you can manage your shipping fulfillment with Settings Management  or Simplified Shipping Settings, depending on your needs.  

1. Management management template settings 

 Walmart’s legacy shipping template settings allow sellers to define and manage their own transit times. Sellers are responsible for maintaining legacy shipping template settings, so delivery promises on Walmart.com remain accurate for their products. Sellers are also held accountable for late deliveries due to misconfigured transit times. 

 You may need to use a shipping template if you: 

  • Use domestic carrier services other than USPS, UPS, or FedEx 
  • Require international shipping 
  • Want to ship with Freight carrier services 

2. Simplified Shipping Settings 

The Simplified Shipping Settings (SSS) is the alternate solution to legacy shipping templates on Walmart Marketplace that creates accurate delivery promises by generating dynamic transit times for your configured carrier service.  

Simplified Shipping Settings enables sellers to manage shipping configurations (free or paid) for their assortment. It requires minimum coverage across the 48 contiguous U.S. states. Shipping coverage for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands is optional. 

Based on the carrier services configured, the platform derives dynamic transit times based on customer proximity, carrier performance, and network data. 


Settings Management API features

Use the following Settings Management API features to create and manage your shipping configurations. 

Get shipping template

The Get shipping template details API gives you specific shipping configurations for a single shipping template.

Update shipping templates

The Update shipping templates API lets you modify configurations on an existing shipping template, such as shipping methods, regions, transit times, and pricing rules.

Delete shipping templates

The Delete shipping templates API lets you permanently remove existing shipping templates from Walmart Marketplace settings.

Get all fulfillment centers

The Get all fulfillment centers API retrieves fulfillment centers (also known as ship nodes) information on your account.

Update fulfillment center

The Update fulfillment center API helps you update your existing fulfillment centers (also known as a ship nodes) configuration in Marketplace Settings.

Create fulfillment center

The Create fulfillment center API sets up new fulfillment centers (also known as ship nodes) in Walmart Marketplace Settings.

Get account level settings

The Get account level settings API retrieves account-level shipping settings such as calendar day configurations, weekends, and additional days off.

Update account level settings

The Update account level settings API allows you to configure account-level calendar settings that impact shipping calculations and delivery promise logic.

Create account level settings

The Create account level settings API lets you establish account level calendar configuration for your shipping operations.

Get all shipping templates

The Get all shipping templates API retrieves a list of all shipping templates configured on your account.

Create shipping templates

The Create shipping templates API allows sellers to create custom shipping templates that define shipping methods, transit times, pricing logic, and geographic coverage.

Third-party fulfillment center association

The Third-party fulfillment center association API allows sellers to activate or update the status of 3PL (third-party logistics) ship nodes associated with your Marketplace account.

Get shipping configurations

The Get shipping configurations API retrieves account-level shipping profile settings associated on your account.

Get shipping template activation status

The Get shipping template activation status API allows sellers to retrieve the current activation state of shipping templates at the account level.

Get coverage for fulfillment centers

The Get coverage for fulfillment centers API retrieves the geographic coverage areas associated with each fulfillment center (ship node) configured under a seller account.

Get carrier methods API

The Get carrier methods API retrieves the list of carrier methods available for use in Marketplace shipping configurations

Get all third-party fulfillment providers

The Get all third-party fulfillment providers API retrieves all third-party fulfillment providers (3PLs) available on the Walmart marketplace.

Get partner configurations API

The Get partner configurations API retrieves seller-level profile information and system configuration settings associated with a Marketplace partner account.