Amazon Temporarily Drops Fee for Sellers Shipping Walmart Orders

Amazon is temporarily getting rid of a fee that sellers had to pay when using its Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) service to ship orders placed on Walmart’s website. This change started on June 10 and will last until January 14, 2026.

MCF is a service that lets Amazon sellers ship products ordered from other websites, like Walmart. Normally, if sellers didn’t use Amazon’s delivery trucks, they had to pay an extra 5% fee. But now, for Walmart orders, that fee is being waived.

Walmart has strict rules. Sellers can’t ship items in Amazon-branded boxes or have them delivered by Amazon trucks. Instead, they must use plain, non-branded packaging and block Amazon Logistics as the delivery option.

Because of these rules, sellers using Amazon to ship Walmart orders had to pay that extra 5%, which was a turn-off. Vanessa Hung, CEO of Online Seller Solutions, said on LinkedIn that this new change is a good chance for sellers to try out Amazon MCF without worrying about the extra fee.

Amazon’s move comes as it and Walmart compete to win more business from sellers who need help shipping orders from multiple platforms.

Walmart recently promoted its fulfillment service, pointing out that it includes free plain packaging and doesn’t charge the kind of extra fees Amazon used to.

Sellers can still use Amazon MCF for Walmart orders by either using a supported order management app or manually placing orders through Amazon Seller Central, but they need to follow Walmart’s shipping rules.

In the past, Walmart was even tougher. Ravi Patel, director of an e-commerce agency, said that even if sellers used plain boxes, Walmart could tell if something came from Amazon (for example, by tracking numbers), and some seller accounts were suspended. But now, Walmart says sellers can use Amazon MCF, as long as they do it the right way.

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