When you ship inventory to Walmart, there is a gap where the stock has left your warehouse but Walmart has not received it into WFS yet. That gap can last weeks or even months. In the meantime a local count comes up short, but the units are not in WFS either, so they fall through the cracks.
ConnectBooks handles this for you. We pull each shipment's status straight from Walmart and move your inventory through three warehouses so it always reflects where the stock actually is.
The 3 warehouses
Local. Your stock on hand.
In Transit. Shipped, but not received by Walmart yet.
WFS. Received by Walmart and ready to sell.
How it works
When Walmart marks a shipment as shipped, ConnectBooks moves those units from Local to In Transit.
Then, as Walmart receives units, ConnectBooks moves them from In Transit to WFS. This runs daily until the shipment is fully received, so your In Transit balance always shows what is still outstanding.
Turn it on
Go to Stores and Files, then Inventory Files, then File Settings.
Click Inventory and Warehouse.
Toggle on Shipments.
Click Manage Warehouses and assign your Local, In Transit, and WFS warehouses for each store.
New shipments now transfer automatically. Older ones are set to ignored. To transfer an older one, click the three dots next to it and choose Transfer.
Want to skip the manual step entirely? Turn on Auto Sync and every shipment transfers on its own, except those marked as ignored.
Check on a shipment
On the WFS Shipments page, click any number in the ConnectBooks Transfers column to see that shipment's transfers.
In Transit shows units moved from Local. This figure stays fixed.
WFS shows units received by Walmart. This figure climbs until the shipment closes.
See everything
All transfers: Inventory, then Warehouse Transfers, then WFS Transfers.
Inventory by warehouse, including In Transit: Inventory Reports, then Inventory Summary Report.