Set Up Walmart Templates

Create your own product data template for Walmart.

Templates enhance and customize the information being sent to the channel; the system has a default template for general usage purposes. Users can create their own templates with additional fields and send data to Walmart following their guidelines.

  1. Go to: Menu > Settings > Templates,

  2. Click on the “Add Template” button,

  3. Click to choose the “Walmart” Template type,

  4. From the upcoming drop-down menu, choose the department,

  5. Another drop-down menu will show up. Choose the sub-department from there,

  6. Give a name to this template, and click on “Save” and “Edit” immediately,

  7. In the upcoming screen, click on “Add Field,”

  8. Find the applicable target field and click,

  9. This brings the “Field Properties” dialog box, where the target field can be assigned to the source field,

  10. Click on the “Source Field” text box, click on Product, and scroll the list to find the applicable Dynamic field to be inserted,

  11. Find your source field, attach and click OK to assign a Local field to the Walmart template.

  12. Add all necessary fields following steps 7~11 above and click on “Save,”

  13. For more advanced usage, refer to “Edit Templates,”

  14. You can combine multiple Local fields and assign them to a Target field with the “Format” Textbox on this screen. Some numerous options and functions can be used in this area. Please refer to the “Template Functions and Syntax” document to read more about these functions.

Once a template is added to templates, it can be activated as follows:

1. Choose Walmart as your active channel,

2. Go to Menu > Walmart USA > Channel Settings > Template: Choose the template you just made for your channel; this action will assign the template to the channel as default,

3. (Optional) To assign different templates to different categories or overwrite a certain field for a certain category;

  1. Go to Menu > Walmart USA > Mappings,

  2. Click on the “templates tab” to perform template mapping,

  3. Click the “Expand All” button,

  4. Click on a category, drag the category from the left to right-hand side template to do your mapping.

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