Our upstream team is transitioning RFID SKU data to a new source. During this period, there may be times when no new data is available. We’ll notify you once the new source is live.
Merchandising will be making additional hierarchy changes for Departments 5, 7, and 87 between Monday, February 23 and Friday, February 27. Additional hierarchy changes for fashion departments will begin on Monday, March 2 and last for up to 8 weeks. The above hierarchy changes will be reflected in Channel Performance on a daily basis, pulling in changes each morning from the day before. If you have any pre-built reports utilizing hierarchy filters, you may need to clear these filters and recreate them with the new hierarchies. Shopper Behavior, Customer Perception, Digital Landscapes, and Insights Activation will reflect all Departments 5, 7, and 87 hierarchy changes on Monday, March 9. Fashion hierarchy changes for Shopper Behavior, Customer Perception, Digital Landscapes, and Insights Activation will also begin to be reflected on Monday, March 9 and will continue to update on a weekly cadence each Monday.
Upcoming restatement to correct overinflated backroom inventory data Walmart Data Ventures was recently informed up our upstream partners that, due to faulty Logic, Backroom Adjustment Retail Amount metrics (backroom_adj_cst_amt and backroom_adj_retail_amt) are overinflated within Backroom Adjustment Inventory at the store level. To correct this data, Walmart Data Ventures worked with upstream partners to restate the data beginning Friday, March 6, and will finalize this work on Monday, March 9. For Data Feeds and Cloud Feeds clients, we will send the updated data in the form of insert and updates, Please plan accordingly.
Our APIs are deployed in isolated Sandbox and Production environments. Onboarding onto these environments requires that you authenticate your access with the Walmart API Proxy/Gateway before initiating an API call.
Getting Started
The first step to authenticating your access is to generate API access keys.
Before you begin:
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If you have already onboarded to Data Feeds APIs, you do not need to generate keys again. Please also make sure your business partners have already connected with a Walmart Data Ventures Account Manager.
Before you begin generating your API access keys, you need to have access to a command line terminal. For Windows systems, ensure that either Git Bash or OpenSSL for Windows has been installed.
Please note:
You will use your generated public key to obtain a Consumer ID. Consumer IDs are shared at a company level, so the same Consumer ID will be applicable for everyone in the company. Your generated private key will be used later for call authentication.
The public and private access keys you will generate are collectively referred to as "RSA Keys" or "RSA". You will need to repeat the RSA generation steps for each environment you wish to gain access to, as outlined below:
Scenario
Description
Keys Needed
1
Sandbox only
1 RSA needed
2
Both Production and Sandbox
2 RSAs needed: 1 for Sandbox, 1 for Production
There are slightly different methods for generating keys, depending on whether you are using a Unix-based or Windows-based operating system.
To generate your keys, select your operating system:
