Connect Walmart to Parabola

What is Walmart Marketplace?

Walmart Marketplace is an online platform that allows third-party sellers to list and sell their products on Walmart.com. It provides businesses with access to Walmart’s customer base, along with tools for managing inventory, pricing, and order fulfillment. This integration is currently in beta— additional functionality is available via API.

Pull orders from Walmart

The Walmart API is used to programmatically interact with Walmart’s platform and provides access to various Walmart services including order managements, inventory and stock levels, product data, and customer insights. Walmart is a beta integrations which requires a slightly more involved setup process than our native integrations. Following the guidance in this document should help even those without technical experience to pull data from Walmart. If you run into any questions, shoot our team an email at support@parabola.io.

Use Cases

Use Case	Description
Order Management	Supports order processing, allowing third-party sellers to manage orders, confirm shipments, retrieve shipping labels, and process returns. Sellers can integrate these functions into their own systems for automated order management.
Inventory and Stock Levels	Enables retailers and sellers on Walmart Marketplace to check inventory levels, update product quantities, and track stock status. This helps in efficient inventory management and avoiding stock-outs.
Product Data Access	Allows developers to access Walmart’s product catalog, including item details, pricing, availability, and reviews. Businesses use this data to list Walmart products on their platforms, such as comparison websites or e-commerce stores.
Customer Data and Insights	Enables merchants or partners to gather customer behavior insights from API data, helping them analyze shopping patterns and improve their services or marketing efforts.

🤝 Walmart | Integration configuration

Walmart API Reference:

Walmart Authentication Documentation

Instructions

Navigate to the Walmart Developer Portal.

Click My Account to log into your Marketplace.

Click Add New Key For A Solution Provider to set permissions for the provider to generate a Client ID and Client Secret.

Add New Key For A Solution Provider button on Walmart developer portal

Tip:Use Production Keys to connect to live production data in Parabola. Use Sandbox Keys to review the request and response formats using mock data.

Select the Solution Provider from the drop-down list.

Solution Provider drop-down on the Walmart developer portal

Note: If your Solution Provider is not listed, contact Walmart. You need to have a contract with Walmart before you can delegate access to a Solution Provider.

Specify specific permissions, or to take the defaults, click Submit.

Walmart developer portal solution provider permissions submission screen

Configure an Expiring Access Token request to the Token API in Parabola.

🔐 Parabola | Authentication configuration

Add a Pull orders from Walmart step template to your canvas.

Click into any of the Enrich with API steps to configure your authentication.

Under the Authentication Type, select Expiring Access Token before selecting Configure Auth.

Enter your credentials to make a request to the Token API using the format below:

Access token request URL (`POST`)

Sandbox URLhttps://sandbox.walmartapis.com/v3/tokenProduction URLhttps://marketplace.walmartapis.com/v3/token

Request Body Parameters

Key	Value
`grant_type`	`client_credentials`

Request Headers

Header Key	Header Value
`Content-Type`	`application/x-www-form-urlencoded`
`Authorization`	`Basic` `Client ID:Client Secret`>
`WM_QOS.CORRELATION_ID`	`<128-bit GUID>`
`WM_SVC.NAME`	`Walmart Service Name`
`WM_MARKET`	`us` or `mx`

Tip:You can configure an Authorization Header Value using a base-64 encoder. Encode your Client ID and Client Secret separated by a colon: Client ID:Client Secret.In Parabola, use the Header Value field to type Basic , followed by a space, and paste in your encoded credentials: Basic {encoded credentials here}.

Tip:You can generate a WM_QOS.CORRELATION_ID Header Value using a GUID generator. Click Generate some GUIDS and copy the result to your clipboard.In Parabola, paste the results in the WM_QOS.CORRELATION_ID Header Value.

Response Access Token Field

access_token

Click Advanced Options

Header Key for Using Access Token

WM_SEC.ACCESS_TOKEN

Header Value for Using Access Token

{token}

Click Authorize

Example Screenshot

Expiring Access Token authorization configured for Walmart Marketplace

Click into the other Enrich with API steps and select the Expiring Access Token as your Authentcation Type to apply the same credentials.

🌐 Walmart | Sample API Requests

List orders using a dynamic date range

Get started with this template.

Add a Start with date & time step to the canvas to define the earliest order date.

Connect it to a Format dates step to format the Current DateTime into yyyy-MM-dd.

Connect it to the Enrich with API step.

Under Authentication Type, ensure Expiring Access Token is selected to use your authentication credentials.

Click into the Request Settings to configure your request using the format below.

API Endpoint URL

Field	Value
Method	GET
API Endpoint URL	`https://marketplace.walmartapis.com/v3/orders?createdStartDate={Current DateTime}&limit=200`

URL Parameters

Key	Value
createdStartDate	`{Current DateTime}`
limit`	200
shipNodeType `(optional)`	SellerFulfilled `(Default)`, WFSFulfilled, or 3PLFulfilled

Request Headers

Header Key	Header Value
Content-Type	application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Authorization	Basic Client ID:Client Secret>
WM_QOS.CORRELATION_ID	`<128-bit GUID>`
WM_SVC.NAME	Walmart Service Name

Click Refresh data to display the results.

Example Screenshot

Pull orders from Walmart step results showing API response data

📣 Callouts

Note: Parabola cannot support the API’s cursor-style pagination at this time. We can import up to 200 records at a time. Configuring a smaller, dynamic date range with frequent flow runs is highly recommended.

Flows & the canvas

Flow management