Walmart Marketplace Launches Item Spec 5.0
Walmart Marketplace’s Item Spec 5.0 adds an optional conditionNotes field for eligible pre-owned, refurbished, and remanufactured products.
What are the key facts?
- 1Walmart Developer Platform released Item Spec 5.0 on October 15
- 2Adds an optional conditionNotes field
- 3Field applies to pre-owned, refurbished, or remanufactured products
- 4The update does not add new product-condition enumerations
- 5Late updates may cause data validation failures
What happened?
Walmart Marketplace has launched Item Spec 5.0. The Walmart Developer Platform released the version on October 15, and it applies to the MP_ITEM, MP_MAINTENANCE, MP_WFS_ITEM, and OMNI_WFS product data interfaces. The direct change is the addition of an optional conditionNotes field for eligible non-new products, including Pre-Owned and Restored products. Sellers can use the field to add details about cosmetic wear, functional condition, packaging, missing accessories, and other information that may affect purchasing decisions, and submit it through SFF or WFS product creation and maintenance processes. The platform emphasized that the update does not add new product-condition enumerations or change existing Marketplace product-condition policies. However, sellers that do not migrate to the new interface or update Feed formats in time may encounter data validation failures, condition information not being displayed, or product maintenance task errors. The main sellers affected are cross-border sellers of used electronics, refurbished appliances, returned goods for resale, and collectibles.
What does this mean for cross-border sellers?
Walmart Marketplace Item Spec 5.0 adds an optional conditionNotes field for pre-owned, refurbished, and remanufactured products, allowing sellers to add wear, function, packaging, and accessory details. Sellers using MP_ITEM, MP_MAINTENANCE, MP_WFS_ITEM, or OMNI_WFS may face validation failures, missing displayed information, or maintenance errors if they do not migrate interfaces or update Feeds.
What should sellers do now?
- 1Review Walmart listings for used electronics, refurbished appliances, returned goods for resale, and collectibles one by one, complete the condition information required for conditionNotes, and prepare a list of missing fields and items requiring confirmation.Listing character checker
- 2Check the MP_ITEM, MP_MAINTENANCE, MP_WFS_ITEM, and OMNI_WFS interfaces and Feed templates, confirm that the optional conditionNotes field is supported, and retain the result of one submission validation.Listing Optimizer
- 3Create condition-description templates for Pre-Owned and Restored products covering cosmetic wear, functional condition, packaging, and missing accessories, complete a maintenance test for a batch of products, and verify how the information is displayed on the product pages.