Walmart Listing Quality score: the five components, and which to fix first

Von Oleksandr Shaniuk · Gründer von Sellura · Aktualisiert 1. November 2026

Walmart's Listing Quality score rates each item from 0 to 100 on five components: content quality, price competitiveness, shipping, published and in stock, and ratings and reviews; your catalog score is the average of your items' scores. Content quality covers the item name, description, key features and images. Price is compared with similar products on external marketplaces, shipping is the delivery speed you promise across ZIP codes, published and in stock covers the last seven days, and ratings and reviews counts how many reviews an item has and its average rating (Walmart Marketplace Learn, Listing Quality dashboard guide updated 9 April 2026, and Walmart's developer documentation, read 1 November 2026).

Components: 5; each scored 0–100
Fix first: Under 60%; Walmart's own priority line
New offers in the dashboard: ≤1 week; scores may not update at once
Left out of the shipping score: 50 lb+; and items listed at $10 or less

Walmart's own guide to fixing issues says to work first on the components scoring 0 to 59%, and that a newly published offer can take up to a week to show in the dashboard. Below: what each component measures, Walmart's own sample score and what its rule says to fix in it, what moves each component, and the one part a better product name and description can change. Sellura writes Walmart listings and is not affiliated with Walmart.

The five components, and what each measures

Walmart shows the score in Seller Center's Listing Quality dashboard, for the catalog and for each item, and its developer API returns the same numbers with a field per component. Walmart publishes no weights, so nobody outside Walmart can say how much each component counts toward the total. What it does publish is what each one measures:

Component	What Walmart measures	API field
Content quality	What Walmart measuresThe item name, description, key features and images	API fieldcontentScore
Price competitiveness	What Walmart measuresYour price against similar products on external marketplaces	API fieldpriceScore
Shipping	What Walmart measuresThe delivery speed you promise across ZIP codes; items over 50 lb or at $10 or less are left out	API fieldshippingScore
Published and in stock	What Walmart measuresHow often the item was available to buy over the last seven days	API fieldtransactibilityScore
Ratings and reviews	What Walmart measuresThe number of customer reviews and the average rating	API fieldratingReviewScore

From Walmart Marketplace Learn's Listing Quality dashboard guide (updated 9 April 2026) and the developer page for the seller's Listing Quality score (updated 12 April 2026), both read 1 November 2026. The API also returns an offerScore and the overall listingQuality, all on a 0–100 scale.

Sources: Walmart Marketplace Learn: Listing quality and rewards dashboard (five components, catalog score as the average; updated 9 Apr 2026), checked 1 November 2026 · Walmart Developer: Get seller's listing quality score (0–100 scale, component fields; updated 12 Apr 2026), checked 1 November 2026

Fix the lowest component first

Walmart's developer page prints a sample score, and it makes the point better than any rule. Content scores 78, ratings and reviews 100, price 64, but shipping only 36 and published and in stock 41. Walmart's guide to fixing issues says to focus first on the components scoring 0 to 59%. On that sample, rewriting the product name would be the wrong first move: the score is lost on delivery speed and on being out of stock.

In Seller Center, open the Listing Quality dashboard and read the breakdown by component before anything else. To work on one item, go to Improve individual items and choose Fix issues in the Edit item column; for many at once, use Optimize items in bulk. Items marked Mid or High under Impact are the ones Walmart says are worth the most. Expect a delay: Walmart says the score may not update immediately.

Five horizontal bars on a 0 to 100 scale with a line at 60, using the sample values in Walmart's developer documentation. Shipping at 36 and published and in stock at 41 sit in red below the line. Price competitiveness at 64 and content quality at 78 and ratings and reviews at 100 sit above it in blue. A note says Walmart's rule is to fix what scores under 60 first: here shipping and stock rather than the words. — In Walmart's own sample, the words are not the problem: shipping and stock sit under the 60% line that Walmart says to fix first.

Sources: Walmart Marketplace Learn: Listing Quality: Fix issues (focus on 0–59% first, Mid or High impact; updated 28 Sep 2026), checked 1 November 2026 · Walmart Developer: Get seller's listing quality score (sample values per component), checked 1 November 2026

Content quality: the part words can change

Content quality is the one component a better listing text moves, and Walmart's product detail page rules say what a complete one looks like. Walmart's US guide does not publish how it grades length; its Canadian version of the dashboard guide says title and description length and the number of key features are judged against the average of popular items in the same subcategory, so the bar moves with the category. Some attributes can only be changed by the brand owner or an authorized reseller, so a listing on someone else's product page may be stuck at the content it has.

Write to the rules first, then compare with the best sellers in your subcategory:

Product name: up to 150 characters, brief and descriptive, no all caps, special characters, promotional claims or repeated keywords.
Key features: 3 to 10, the most important first, none over 80 characters including spaces.
Description: one paragraph of at least 150 words, with no bullet points, emoji or outside links; the word count varies by category.
Images: count toward content quality too, so meet Walmart's image guidelines before you rewrite the text.

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Sources: Walmart Marketplace Learn: Product Detail Page: overview (name, key features, description rules; updated 6 Oct 2026), checked 1 November 2026 · Walmart Marketplace Learn (Canada): Listing quality dashboard (length judged against popular items in the subcategory; updated 8 Jun 2026), checked 1 November 2026 · Walmart Marketplace Learn: Listing Quality: Fix issues (attributes only the brand owner can change), checked 1 November 2026

Shipping, stock, price and reviews: the rest of the score

The other four components move with operations, not words, and Walmart names a tool for each. Shipping reaches 100% when you offer fast, free shipping of three days or less, through Simplified Shipping Settings or Walmart Fulfillment Services, and stay in stock. Published and in stock is simply availability over the last seven days, so an item that keeps selling out keeps losing it.

Price competitiveness compares you with other marketplaces, and Walmart points to its Repricer and its Price Incentives program; check what you keep at the lower price before you cut. Ratings and reviews grows with Walmart's Review Accelerator and Review Syndication programs on eligible items.

Shipping: free, three days or less, via Simplified Shipping Settings or WFS.
Published and in stock: keep stock above zero; the window is seven days.
Price: the Repricer or Price Incentives, after checking the margin.
Ratings and reviews: Review Accelerator or Review Syndication, where the item qualifies.

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Source: Walmart Marketplace Learn: Listing Quality: Fix issues (shipping, stock, price and review programs), checked 1 November 2026

What the score is, and what it isn't

Walmart says quality listings drive higher conversion and visibility and help unlock programs such as the Pro Seller badge. It does not publish the score's weights or say how it feeds search ranking, so treat it as Walmart's own to-do list rather than a rank you can calculate. Post-purchase quality sits beside it: the developer API reports items with post-purchase issues and a defect ratio in separate fields, and Walmart's Canadian guide states that post-purchase quality does not affect the Listing Quality score.

A low score is also not the same as a missing listing. An item that is unpublished, priced out of the results or carrying another seller's content is a different problem, with a different order of checks.

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Sources: Walmart Marketplace Learn: Listing quality and rewards dashboard (conversion, visibility, Pro Seller badge), checked 1 November 2026 · Walmart Developer: Get seller's listing quality score (itemDefectCnt and defectRatio for post-purchase quality), checked 1 November 2026

What Sellura does here, and what it doesn't

Sellura works on the content component only. It cannot see your Seller Center, so it does not show or predict your Walmart Listing Quality score, and its own 0–100 score is a different instrument: deterministic, the same listing always gets the same number, and each weak factor comes with one fix written for that listing. Paste a Walmart item link (walmart.com/ip/…) or the text into the free Listing checker for that score, free and without an account.

To write the content again, describe the item and the generator returns a brand-first product name of about 75 characters, up to 10 key features of at most 80 characters, and one plain paragraph of 150 words or more. The product name and the score are free on every generation, no card; a credit unlocks the full listing, and the first unlock is free on a new account. Starter is $15 a month for 25 credits ($150 a year) and Pro $24 a month for 65 credits plus bulk ($240 a year). Sellura doesn't set prices, shipping or stock, post to Walmart or track rankings.

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FAQ

What is the Walmart Listing Quality score?

A 0–100 score Walmart gives each item, and an average of them for your catalog, built from five components: content quality, price competitiveness, shipping, published and in stock, and ratings and reviews. It sits in Seller Center's Listing Quality dashboard.

How do I improve my Walmart Listing Quality score?

Start with whichever components score under 60%, as Walmart's own guide advises. Content improves with a complete name, description, key features and images; shipping with free delivery in three days or less; stock by not selling out; price with the Repricer; reviews with Walmart's review programs.

How long does it take for the Walmart Listing Quality score to update?

Walmart says the score may not update immediately, and that a newly published offer can take up to a week to show in the Listing Quality dashboard.

Does the Listing Quality score affect Walmart search ranking?

Walmart says quality listings drive higher conversion and visibility, but it does not publish how the score feeds search ranking or how the components are weighted.

Does post-purchase quality count in the Listing Quality score?

Walmart's developer API reports post-purchase issues in separate fields, and its Canadian dashboard guide states that post-purchase quality does not affect the Listing Quality score. Keep those issues low anyway.

Open the Listing Quality dashboard, read the five components and fix the ones under 60% first, as Walmart advises: usually shipping and stock before the words. Offer free shipping in three days or less, keep items in stock, check price against your margin, and grow reviews through Walmart's programs. Then bring the content up to the product detail page rules and allow up to a week for changes to show. Sellura writes the content part: paste a listing into the free checker for a 0–100 score, and let the generator rewrite it with the name and score free and a credit for the full listing.

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