What is the WALMART PLUS charge?

Why it shows up like this

A statement line reading WALMART PLUS is the Walmart+ membership fee, not a single shopping trip. For $12.95 a month or $98 a year, Walmart Inc. bundles free delivery from your local store, free shipping with no order minimum, member fuel discounts at participating stations, mobile Scan & Go in stores, and a Paramount+ Essential subscription at no extra cost. It is a recurring membership rather than a charge for any specific purchase.

Walmart Inc. charges the membership to the card on file each cycle, and this is where it gets slippery. The descriptor can print as WALMART PLUS, WALMART+ MEMBERSHIP, or something close to an ordinary in-store line such as WM SUPERCENTER WAL. Because most people already carry plenty of Walmart purchases on a statement, a $12.95 or $98 membership charge can read like one more grocery run instead of a subscription.

Nearly every Walmart+ account begins with a 30-day free trial, and the plan converts to paid automatically when that trial ends. The timing is the usual source of surprise, since the first real charge lands a month after signup. Members who chose the annual plan face the reverse: the $98 yearly renewal is large and arrives twelve months later, often long after the reason for joining has passed. Bundled perks like Paramount+ also lead some people to assume the charge belongs to a different service. The Paramount+ tie-in trips people up most, since cancelling Walmart+ also ends that included streaming access, so it helps to plan around that before you cancel.

Don’t recognize it? You might still

• A 30-day Walmart+ free trial ended and converted to the $12.95 monthly plan.
• An annual Walmart+ membership renewed at $98, a year after you first joined.
• The membership charge looked like an in-store WM SUPERCENTER purchase and went unnoticed.
• You joined mainly for the included Paramount+ or the fuel discount and kept paying past that need.
• You signed up during a Walmart+ Week or holiday promotion and the discounted rate rolled into standard monthly billing.

What to do, in order

1. Open Walmart+ in your account Sign in at Walmart.com or in the app, open Account, then Walmart+, and review your plan type, the price, and the next renewal date.
2. Tell the membership apart from purchases A flat $12.95 or $98 with no itemized cart is the membership; itemized WM SUPERCENTER or Walmart.com orders are your actual shopping.
3. Cancel the membership to stop billing Under Account, Walmart+, choose Manage membership, then Cancel, and confirm; benefits continue until the paid term ends.

Quick questions

Verified sources

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• Walmart+ membership https://www.walmart.com/plus
• Walmart Help Center https://www.walmart.com/help