1. Dropship Vendor (DSV): A business model where sellers list their products on Walmart.com, but hold the products in their own warehouse or a third-party logistics provider’s warehouse. Walmart appears as the seller in the listing. When a customer orders a seller’s product from Walmart.com, the seller ships it to the buyer. Walmart requires the merchandise to be shipped with a Walmart packing slip. If the customer chooses the “pick up in store” option, the seller must send the product to that Walmart retail location. As a plus, Walmart will cover the shipping cost.
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2. Everyday Low Price (EDLP): A pricing strategy by Walmart that promises customers that Walmart will have consistently lower prices than their competitors. Customers can access these prices without coupons, promotions, or special discounts. Everyday Low Price (EDLP) is one of Walmart’s key customer retention strategies. For sellers, this methodology ties into Walmart’s pricing parity requirement, which says that sellers must ensure that their price is the lowest price on the market or else they risk Buy Box suppression.
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3. Free & Easy Returns: Walmart allows customers to exchange or return an item within 90 days after purchase. Customers can return their items in-store, by mail, or by pickup at their home. All the customer needs is a receipt. There are some, but not many, expectations to this rule.
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4. NextDayDelivery: If a customer purchases a product with the NextDay delivery designation, the seller must deliver it by the end of the following day. For the customer, orders over $35 are free. Most products sold on Walmart.com are eligible for the program, but products sold by Walmart Sellers are not.
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5. Order Defect Rate (ODR): The number of orders with a minimum one defect divided by the total number of orders (both within the same period). Defects include cancellations, returns, delivery defects, and customer complaints. Sellers must maintain an ODR of 2% or lower to meet Walmart’s performance standards.
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6. Pricing Parity/Reasonable Price Not Satisfied: To ensure a great customer experience, Walmart set automated rules that eliminate non-competitive priced items from the Walmart.com marketplace. Walmart enforces this by identifying identical products on other platforms, such as Amazon, and seeing if they are listed at a lower price than listed on Walmart. The Price Parity rules unpublishes products when the offer price is higher than a competing website. The Price Parity rules are slightly different from the Reasonable Price Not Satisfied rule, which unpublishes products if the offer price is drastically higher than competing websites.
Amazon enforces a similar price parity policy, which is one reason it’s so important to maintain consistent strategy, marketing, promotions, and pricing across all online sales channels.
7. Referral Fees: Walmart charges a category-based referral fee ranging between 6%-20% (most common is 15%) for selling on their marketplace.
8. Seller Center/Seller Portal: A Walmart platform,similar to Amazon’s Seller Central, used by Walmart sellers to market and sell products to Walmart customers.
9. Seller Scorecard: The Seller Scorecard,found in Walmart Seller Center,provides an overview of how well your products are performing under the Walmart Seller Performance Standards.
10. TwoDay Delivery: If a customer purchases an item with TwoDay delivery designation, then the seller must deliver the product by the end of the following day. For the customer, orders over $35 are free. Most products sold on Walmart.com are eligible for the program, but products sold by Walmart Sellers are not.
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11. Walmart 3P Merchant: An independent company that sells products on Walmart’s online marketplace.This can be a brand selling its own products directly or a dedicated wholesale retailer selling products to consumers on a manufacturer’s behalf.
12. Walmart Buy Box: A section on the product page near the “Add to Cart” button that shows from which seller shoppers will be buying. A seller earns sales only when they win the Buy Box. When multiple sellers are in the same listing, each will win the Buy Box for a certain percentage of time. Walmart awards the Buy Box to sellers based on product price, availability, and seller performance.
13. Walmart Enhanced Content: This Walmart.com feature allows sellers to create listings with additional media, such as more images, banners, comparison charts, descriptions, interactive product tours, and videos. These features help capture shopper interest and can lead to higher conversion rates.
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14. Walmart Fulfillment Center: A physical location to which Walmart sellers ship inventory. Inventory is stored in and fulfilled from the fulfillment center.
15. Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS): A Walmart service in which third-party vendors keep their product at Walmart’s warehouses. Walmart will pick, sort, pack, ship, track, and handle product returns and refunds for a fee.
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16. Walmart Marketplace: The official name of Walmart’s online platform.The Walmart Marketplace allows Walmart and approved third parties to sell goods online to Walmart customers.
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17. Walmart Media Group (WMG): Walmart’s first-party media branch. Brands who sell on Walmart can work with WMG to promote their products rather than hiring a third-party seller, marketing agency, or an internal marketing team to do it for them.
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18. Walmart Plus: A Walmart subscription-based service similar to Amazon Prime that gives members access to unlimited same-day delivery for eligible items, discounts at Walmart gas stations, and early access to Walmart deals. The current cost is $98/year, which is roughly $20 less than Amazon Prime. Walmart Plus is expected to officially launch in August 2020.
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19. Walmart Solution Providers: Third-party providers who offer a wide range of ecommerce services for the Walmart Marketplace. Services can include item setup, inventory, order fulfillment, pricing, marketing, and more. Walmart categorizes Walmart Solution Providers into three categories: Full-Service Solution Providers, Specialty Solution Providers, and Content Solution Providers. etailz is a Specialty Solution Provider.
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20. Walmart Sponsored Products: Similar to Amazon Sponsored Product Ads, these cost-per-click (CPC) ads are used to promote products on com website, mobile platform, and app.
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