Walmart WFS fee reconciliation QuickBooks

Reconciling Walmart Fulfillment Services fees in QuickBooks breaks down when fulfillment fees and referral fees are lumped into one "Walmart fees" number instead of tracked as two separate deductions with different drivers.

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Two different fees are hiding in one deduction

Walmart Marketplace charges a referral fee on every sale, based on category. If you use Walmart Fulfillment Services, a separate fulfillment fee — based on item weight and dimensions, not sale price — comes out on top. A single "fees" line in your books can't explain why the net changes when neither category mix nor sale price does.

Storage charges add a second WFS-specific layer

Beyond the per-order fulfillment fee, WFS charges ongoing storage fees on inventory sitting in Walmart's fulfillment centers. Those charges post on their own schedule, separate from any individual sale, which is easy to miss if fees are only tracked at the transaction level.

Fulfillment fees don't move with your sale price

Because WFS fulfillment fees are based on the physical item, not the price it sold for, a discount or a price change doesn't change the fulfillment fee the way it changes the referral fee. Books that scale both fees together as one percentage will drift from Walmart's actual charges immediately.

What's usually behind the mismatch

How FootingKit reconciles it

FootingKit converts your Walmart Marketplace disbursement report into a QuickBooks- or Xero-ready entry that separates referral fees, WFS fulfillment fees, and storage charges into their own lines, so the total nets to your actual bank deposit. Every payout is verified to net exactly to its bank deposit, or the conversion is flagged and re-run — free.

FAQ: What if I don't use WFS for every item?

If some inventory is fulfilled by Walmart and some is seller-fulfilled, FootingKit's reconciliation separates fulfillment method within the same disbursement, so WFS-specific fees only apply to the items that actually went through it.

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The Footing Guarantee: every payout in your file is verified to net exactly to its bank deposit, or the conversion is flagged and re-run free. You get the reconciliation report that proves it.

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