Compliance & Fulfillment Disclosure

This disclosure explains, in plain language, how the Walmart Automation Accelerator is designed to operate within Walmart Marketplace's published policies. It is not legal advice. Walmart's policies change frequently — you are responsible for reviewing the current Walmart Marketplace Retailer Agreement, Prohibited Products Policy, Drop Ship Vendor terms, and Seller Performance Standards before listing any product.

1. Business model: distributor-backed reselling

The Accelerator teaches an authorized-reseller model: you open accounts directly with US-based wholesalers, distributors, and brand-direct suppliers, list their catalog on your Walmart store, and route purchase orders to them when a customer buys. The supplier ships under your business name with no third-party retailer branding. This is materially different from — and explicitly NOT — retail arbitrage from Amazon, Target, Costco, or any other consumer-facing marketplace, which Walmart prohibits.

2. Supplier standards (mandatory)

Every supplier you onboard through our playbook must meet all of the following:

• Legal right to sell. Authorized distributor, brand-owned, or holds documented resale rights. No grey-market goods.
• White-label fulfillment. Ships in plain or your-branded packaging. No competing retailer logos, packing slips, or marketing inserts.
• Verifiable W-9 / business identity. Real warehouse address, EIN, and reachable AP/AR contact.
• Walmart-compatible SLAs. Same- or next-business-day handling, valid carrier tracking uploaded within 24h, on-time delivery rate ≥95%.
• Returns capability. Accepts customer returns to a US address you control.
• Product compliance. Provides UPCs, safety documentation, and (where applicable) FDA, CPSC, FTC, or California Prop 65 disclosures.

Suppliers who cannot meet these standards are removed from the recommended list.

3. Fulfillment disclosure

Orders are fulfilled by the supplier on your behalf. You — as the Walmart Marketplace seller — are the merchant of record, responsible for: pricing, taxes, customer service (first response within 24h is the Walmart standard), returns, and refunds. We do not warehouse, pick, pack, or ship inventory for you. We do not act as a fulfillment provider.

4. Automation tooling — what we mean

Throughout the curriculum, "automation" refers to operational software that uses Walmart's official APIs and sanctioned third-party integrations:

• Listing automation — bulk feed creation via Walmart's Items & Inventory APIs.
• Repricing — rule-based engines built on Walmart's official Repricer API, operating within seller-defined floors and ceilings.
• Order routing — purchase-order generation to your supplier and tracking write-back via Walmart's Orders API.
• Inventory sync — supplier feed → Walmart catalog reconciliation.
• Virtual assistants — trained human contractors handling customer service via documented SOPs.

We do not teach, endorse, or distribute: Seller Center auto-clickers, page scrapers, account-creation bots, review manipulation tools, buy-box stuffing scripts, or any tool that misrepresents human activity to Walmart's systems. Such tools violate Walmart's API Terms of Use and Marketplace policies and will get your account suspended.

5. Account health is your responsibility

Walmart enforces strict performance metrics: order defect rate, on-time shipment, valid tracking, cancellation rate, and price-parity. The curriculum gives you the operating procedures to stay within these thresholds, but enforcement, suspensions, and reinstatement are decisions made solely by Walmart. Past results from other operators do not predict how Walmart will treat your account.

6. Not affiliated with Walmart

Scope Automation is an independent education and software-recommendation provider. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Walmart Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. "Walmart" and "Walmart Marketplace" are trademarks of Walmart Inc., used here for descriptive purposes only.

Questions or concerns about a supplier or tool: hello@scopeautomation.co