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Walmart Canada seller fees (2026)

The referral fee Walmart charges in Canada is a flat percentage per contract category, not the tiered US schedule most fee tables show — and WFS Canada is billed in Canadian dollars on its own weight table. This works out what a Walmart.ca order actually leaves you.

Walmart.ca, fees in CAD. Referral percentages are Walmart's own Canada table, from the Walmart Marketplace Canada Retailer Agreement (Walmart last updated it 30 Oct 2024; checked 6 Nov 2026). Walmart's Canadian page publishes the percentages but not the fee base, so this calculator charges the referral fee on the total sales price including any shipping you charge — the conservative reading, and the one Walmart's US page states. Set shipping to 0 to see the other reading. WFS fees are Walmart's Canada table (last updated 29 Oct 2026): C$5.50 under 1 lb, C$6.50 to 3.9 lb, C$8.50 to 6.9 lb, C$10.10 to 11 lb, then C$0.40 a pound.

What it works out to

The page's own default order: a C$39.99 item, no shipping charged, 15% flat referral, fulfilled by WFS at 4.00 lb, C$12.00 landed cost and C$1.50 of ads per unit.

Referral C$6.00, WFS C$8.50, cost and ads C$13.50 — you keep C$11.99, a 30.0% margin. As a new seller using WFS the same order keeps C$17.12, a 42.8% margin, until 31 Jan 2027. Every figure printed here is produced by the calculator itself.

Canada is flat; the US schedule is tiered

This is the part that trips sellers up, because most published fee tables are the US one. Walmart's US schedule changes rate part-way up the price on several categories; Walmart's Canadian table has no tiers at all. On identical items:

ItemWalmart.caWalmart.com (US schedule)Canada costs more
Apparel & Accessories, C$35.98C$5.40 — 15% flat≈ C$3.65 — 5/10/15% tiers, 10.1% effectiveC$1.75
Jewellery, C$305.99C$61.20 — 20% flat≈ C$52.80 — 20% to $250 then 5%, 17.3% effectiveC$8.40
Watches, C$1,999.99C$300.00 — 15% flat≈ C$240.00 — 15% to $1,500 then 3%, 12.0% effectiveC$60.00

The US figures are computed on our US referral fee calculator, which carries Walmart's US tiered schedule. The Canadian figures are the flat percentages in the table below. Currency is shown at par because the point is the rate, not the exchange; a US order is billed in US dollars.

A warning about the tables you will find elsewhere. At least one fee site publishes a "Walmart Canada" table that carries Baby 8%, Beauty 8% and Jewellery 20% up to $250 then 5% — those are the US rates, imported into a Canadian table. Walmart's own Canada page says Baby 15%, Beauty 15% and Jewellery 20% with no tier. If you price a Canadian listing off the imported table, you will understate the fee on exactly the categories where the two disagree. Walmart's Canadian table is the only one that governs, and it is the one reproduced below.

Walmart Canada referral fees, every contract category

Source: Walmart Marketplace Learn, Canada — “Commission or referral fees for contract categories”. Walmart's own note: these are the contract categories from the Walmart Marketplace Canada Retailer Agreement and they do not match your item-setup categories one for one, so the category Walmart assigns an item is what decides the rate. Check it on your Statements page and open a case with the Item ID if it looks wrong.

Contract categoryReferral fee
Apparel & Accessories15%
Automotive & Powersports12%
Baby15%
Beauty15%
Books15%
Camera & Photo8%
Cell Phones8%
Consumer Electronics8%
Electronics Accessories15%
Furniture & Decor15%
Gourmet Food10%
Grocery10%
Health & Personal Care15%
Home & Garden15%
Industrial & Scientific12%
Jewellery20%
Kitchen15%
Luggage & Travel Accessories15%
Major Appliances8%
Music15%
Musical Instruments12%
Office Products15%
Outdoors15%
Personal Computers6%
Pet Supplies15%
Shoes, Handbags & Sunglasses15%
Software & Computer Video Games15%
Sporting Goods15%
Tires & Wheels10%
Tools & Home Improvement12%
Toys & Games15%
Video & DVD15%
Video Game Consoles8%
Video Games15%
Watches15%
Everything Else15%

WFS Canada: fulfilment and storage, in CAD

Source: Walmart Marketplace Learn, Canada, “WFS Fees”, last updated 29 Oct 2026, and Walmart.ca's WFS pricing page. Shipping weight is the greater of unit weight and volumetric weight, where volumetric weight is length × width × height in inches ÷ 300; add 0.25 lb for packaging and round up to the next pound. Units under 1 lb and over 150 lb are charged on unit weight.

Shipping weightFulfilment fee per unit
Under 1 lbC$5.50
1 – 3.9 lbC$6.50
4 – 6.9 lbC$8.50
7 – 11 lbC$10.10
Each additional lb above 11 lb+ C$0.40
21 lbC$18.00
Each additional lb above 21 lb+ C$0.40
31 lbC$24.00
Each additional lb above 31 lb+ C$0.20
51 lbC$28.00
Each additional lb from 71 to 150 lb+ C$0.40
151 lbC$150.00 (oversize fees do not apply)
351 lbC$350.00

New-seller discounts, to 31 January 2027

Sellers who go live on Walmart Marketplace Canada on or after 1 February 2026 get, automatically: 25% off base referral fees on seller-fulfilled items, 50% off on WFS-fulfilled items, 25% off WFS fulfilment and 50% off WFS storage, with the referral rebate calculated quarterly in arrears. On the page's default order the WFS discount alone takes the referral from C$6.00 to C$3.00 and the C$8.50 fulfilment fee to about C$6.38. The date is in Walmart's New-Seller Savings terms and it ends 31 January 2027 — after that the rates above are the rates you pay.

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Fee changes and deadlines, when they actually change

Walmart, Etsy, Amazon and TikTok change their fee tables without announcing it, and the Canadian tax deadlines move. I check and send one short email when something real changes. No sequence, and nothing to buy every Tuesday.

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