Walmart seller fee calculator

One fee is charged on every sale: the Referral fee, a percentage of the total sales price, set by the Contract Category the item is listed under. Walmart US publishes 22 separate fee types in all, and the rest are charged only if a seller uses the service behind them - Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS), Multichannel Solutions, shipping labels or cross-border freight. The calculator above computes the referral fee, which is the fee every seller pays; the reference section below lists all of them with what Walmart US publishes for each.

As a percentage of the total sales price, in one of three shapes depending on the category. Most categories publish a single rate at every price. Some publish a rate per price band, where the band the price falls in sets the rate for the whole price. Others publish a rate per price portion, where each band's rate applies only to the part of the price inside it, the way income tax bands work. Which shape a category uses is read from the structural registry rather than from the wording of the band, because two cards can carry the same band text and mean different arithmetic. The schedule below states the shape for each of the 38 cards it covers.

The item price plus the shipping and handling charged to the buyer, plus gift wrap and any other charges, excluding only taxes that are separately stated and charged. So an item listed at one price and shipped for a separate charge pays its referral fee on both together. That is why this page asks for the shipping and handling figure and adds it to the base - and why it leaves it out of profit, because the seller does not keep it.

Walmart US publishes a Marketplace subscription fee and publishes it at zero. It is a published figure rather than a gap in the data, which is why the reference section below shows it and the breakdown above does not: a line at zero in a per-unit total would assert a charge of nothing where Walmart US asserts no charge. The per-item selling fee, the variable closing fee and the Flash Deals program fee are published the same way.

Walmart US publishes a payment processing fee of zero. The figure is in the settlement section below, with the row it came from. What a seller may still pay is the withdrawal charge of whichever payout provider they use, which is that provider's rate rather than Walmart US's and is not part of this breakdown.

A programme in which Walmart US stores a seller's inventory, picks and packs orders and handles returns. Its fees are published as a weight-banded fulfilment ladder with surcharges for apparel, hazardous materials, oversize units and items under a published retail price, plus storage per cubic foot per month, return processing, disposal, prep and inventory transfer. Every one of them is in the reference section below at the figure Walmart US publishes. None of them is computed above: band selection runs on a billable weight taken from the unit's dimensions as well as its weight, and four of the five surcharges are keyed on inputs this page does not collect, so a weight-only figure would understate an apparel or oversize unit while reading as fully computed.

Walmart US publishes a settlement cadence of 14 days. A new seller's payments are held for a published period that depends on the country the business is incorporated in, and the hold is released on a published condition. All three figures are in the settlement section below, each beside the row it came from. Walmart US publishes no payout SPEED - how long an initiated disbursement takes to arrive - so this page states none, and the working capital figure that would rest on one is absent rather than estimated.

Because 3 of the 35 Contract Categories publish a separate rate for a named subset of the category, and the two rates differ by several percentage points. Where Walmart US also publishes a rate for the category as a whole, leaving the product type unset uses it. On one category every published row is scoped to a subset, so there is no rate for an unrefined unit and the control has to be answered - Walmart US's two published sources disagree about that category, and the difference is recorded rather than reconciled, so this page will not pick one for you.

Across the 38 published cards the rates run from 2.35% to 20%. The lowest rates sit on the upper bands of the categories charged per price portion, so the rate a seller ends up paying depends on the price as well as the category. The full schedule below lists every card with its rates, its bands and its arithmetic shape, so the comparison can be made on the price being sold at rather than on a headline figure.

Walmart US publishes no subscription fee, no per-item fee and no payment processing fee, so the published cost of selling one unit is the referral fee alone. Approval to sell is a separate matter from fees: Walmart US operates an application process, and some Contract Categories are named in their own published rate card as being for approved sellers. This page prices what is published; it does not predict an application.

No, and they are excluded deliberately rather than missed. Walmart US publishes New-Seller Savings as a discount banded on cumulative programme sales and Pro Listing Savings as a discount keyed on an earned seller tier, each expressed as a percentage off the base referral fee rather than as a rate. Both carry a per-account cap and an offer window, and Walmart US states that only the highest offer available to a seller is applied - so neither is a per-unit charge this page can price, and applying one would understate the fee for every seller not on it.

The three charge on different bases, so a rate cannot be compared without the base. Walmart US charges its referral fee on the total sales price, which includes the shipping and handling the buyer pays. Amazon charges a referral fee plus a fulfilment fee where the seller uses its programme. eBay charges a final value fee on the total amount of the sale, which includes sales tax where Walmart US's base excludes separately stated taxes. The Amazon and eBay calculators are linked above, each computing its own marketplace's published card.

From Walmart US's own published rate cards, stored row by row, with the source URL and the date the row was last verified on each. The figure in the breakdown, the rate in the schedule below and the settlement figures all read the same rows, so the page cannot disagree with itself. Nothing is modelled, estimated or averaged: where a fee has no published figure, the page says so and says what Walmart US publishes in its place.

The referral fee is computed; everything else is named rather than guessed. Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) and Multichannel Solutions fees need the unit's dimensions and the surcharge inputs described above. Shipping label charges are published as a discounted carrier rate and cross-border ocean freight and accessorial charges as a confidential rate card, so Walmart US publishes no figure for any of them and neither does this page. The Returns Shipping Service charge is the same. Advertising is seller-configured, and the ad spend field above is where that cost enters the figures.