Walmart Receipt: How to Get One (and Why You Should Save Them)

You don’t have to call Walmart or wait in line to find a lost receipt. Every walmart.com order you’ve made is in your account, ready to view or print. If your purchase was in-store and you have a Walmart account or used Walmart Pay, the receipt is in your purchase history too. It takes two minutes.

Below is the walk-through. After that, what to do with your Walmart receipts if you run a small business.

How to get a Walmart receipt on your computer

If you’re at your computer, you can use the Walmart receipt lookup tool to locate your receipt.

Follow the steps below:

Step 1. Log in to Walmart

Visit Walmart.com and login to your account using your email, password, or verification code.

If you don’t have a password set up, Walmart will send a code via email or phone.

Step 2. Go to your account

At the upper right corner of your screen, you’ll see the Account button under “Hi, [Your Name].”

Click it to view your account options.

Step 3. Go to your purchase history

Under the account options, you’ll see “Purchase History.”

Click it to view all of the Walmart purchases (receipts) under your account.

Step 4. Find the order and view the details

Scroll to find the right store receipt or filter your receipts by date or status.

Once you’ve found it, click the “View details” button at the top right of the purchase.

There, you’ll find all of the other contact information related to your purchase:

• Date of purchase.
• Items purchased.
• Store location.
• Payment method.
• Subtotal, tax, and total.
• Barcode and TC#.
• Walmart Return Policy.

TIP: Skip the steps and automatically organize your Walmart receipts with Shoeboxed. Shoeboxed pulls Walmart receipts from your email so you never lose track of them.

How to get a Walmart receipt on the app

If you’re using the Walmart app, follow the steps below to get your receipt:

Step 1. Open the app and log in

Open the app and log in with your credentials.

Step 2. Go to your account

At the bottom right of your screen, you’ll see an Account button that looks like a person.

Click it to view all of your account details.

Step 3. Go to your purchase history

At the top of your screen, under Messages, you’ll see your Purchase History.

Click the Purchase History button to view your receipts.

Step 4. Find the order and view the details

From here, you can scroll to find the right order or filter your purchases by the date, returns, store, or status.

Once you’ve found the order, click “View details” at the bottom right of the purchase, next to “Start a return.”

You’ll be taken to the following screen.

Step 5. Click Receipt Details

At the top left corner of your screen under the purchase date, click “Receipt Details.” This will pull up a digital copy of your Walmart receipt.

On both the purchase order screen and on the digital copy of your Walmart receipt, you’ll find the information related to your purchase:

• Date of purchase.
• Items purchased.
• Store location.
• Payment method.
• Subtotal, tax, and total.
• Barcode and TC#.

The only information you will not see is the Walmart Return Policy, but you can easily start a return by clicking the “Start a return” button at the top of your screen.

If you don’t have your receipt and want to return a purchase, you can still do so.

According to Walmart’s Return Policy, “If you don’t have your receipt, show [Walmart] your valid government-issued photo ID. [Walmart will] accept your return if your ID information matches with the one stored in [Walmart’s] secured database.”

If your return is accepted you can either:

• Exchange the item.
• Get a cash money refund (for purchases less than $10).
• Receive a Walmart gift or shopping card (for purchases $10 or higher).
• Or get the item repaired by the manufacturer (if applicable).

All Walmart refunds are made to the method of payment you used for the returned purchase.

How to print a Walmart receipt

If you want to print a Walmart receipt for your records, follow the steps below:

Step 1. Log in to your Walmart account on a computer

To print a Walmart receipt, you’ll need to be at your computer.

On your computer, log in to your Walmart account.

Step 2. Go to your account

At the upper right corner of your screen, you’ll see an Account button under “Hi, [Your Name].”

Click it to view your account options.

Step 3. Go to your purchase history

Under the account options, you’ll see “Purchase History.”

Click it to view all of the Walmart purchase receipts under your account.

Step 4. Find the order and view the details

Scroll to find the right order or filter your orders by date or status.

Once you’ve found the order, click the “View details” button located at the top right of the purchase.

Step 5. Click print

To the left of the “Need Help?” button (located under the purchase date and TC#), click the Print button.

Can Walmart reprint a receipt?

If you lost your paper receipt, opted out of a digital email copy, and didn’t scan the bar code on your app, you can still get a copy of your receipt.

To get a copy of your receipt:

1. Visit the store you purchased the item(s) from.
2. Speak to the Customer Service Manager (CSM) and explain that you need a copy of your receipt.
3. Give them the date of your purchase and the number from the card you used.

This should be enough information for the CSM to find your purchase and print another receipt for you.

That solves the immediate problem. Here’s the bigger one that catches small-business owners off-guard at tax time.

If you’re running a small business, the IRS expects you to save your receipts

Most people land here needing one receipt: a counter return, a client reimbursement, or a charge they don’t recognize.

But if you run a small business, get paid via 1099, or file a Schedule C, the IRS has a rule about every business-related receipt: keep it for at least three years after you file the return that includes it.

That’s from IRS Publication 583. Three years is the default, though some situations stretch to six. The IRS doesn’t care that you bought from Walmart; they care that you can prove the expense was real, what it was for, and that it was for business.

Say you’re a realtor and you ran to Walmart last spring for $400 of staging supplies (throw pillows, picture frames, fresh flowers) to set up an open house at a new listing. You deducted them. You also picked up about 30 miles of business driving that day: home to Walmart, Walmart to the listing, the listing back home. At the 2026 standard mileage rate, that’s around $22 in mileage deductions on top of the $400 in supplies. In 2027 or 2028, if the IRS asks, you need to pull up that Walmart receipt AND show the mileage log to back it up. “Let me log into Walmart and find it” works most of the time. It stops working the day you can’t find the receipt, you’ve changed phones, your old Walmart account is locked, or you paid in cash and never had an account in the first place.

The problem isn’t one receipt today. It’s every receipt you might need three years from now.

Shoeboxed is the easy way to never lose another receipt

Snap a paper receipt with the Shoeboxed app, or mail us a shoebox of them and we scan them for you. If your receipts arrive by email, our Gmail Receipt Sync tool watches your inbox and pulls the receipt emails out automatically. We read each one for the store, the date, the total, and the expense category, then file it in your Shoeboxed account. Search by vendor or export the whole pile to your accountant at tax time. No more digging through Walmart’s order history.

Since 2007, we’ve processed more than 680,000 Walmart receipts. Most belong to realtors picking up staging items for open houses, cleaning crews, lawn-care operators, and other supply-run-heavy SMBs. After more than 680,000 of them, we know what most people miss.

More than two-thirds of the more than 680,000 Walmart receipts we’ve processed get tagged “General Retail,” which is a catch-all that’s just as useless at tax time as no category at all. The receipts that DO get broken down further (Groceries, Office Supplies, Auto / Fuel, Medical, Inventory) are the ones whose owners are actually capturing deductions.

Two tax deductions you’re probably missing on your Walmart runs

Two more deductions sit next to every Walmart run, and most small-business owners miss them: the drive there (mileage), and the home office where the supplies end up.

Home office

If you work from home even part of the week, a slice of your rent or mortgage, utilities, internet, and home insurance is deductible. Anytime you buy a desk, chair, lamp, printer paper, file cabinet, or office supplies at Walmart for that home office, those receipts are separate deductions on top of the home office deduction itself.

You may have heard claiming a home office is an audit red flag. That hasn’t been true for years. The IRS simplified the rule in 2013 with a method that pays $5 per square foot up to 300 square feet (Pub 587), no receipts required. Take the deduction. And the chair you bought at Walmart for that home office is a separate line on Schedule C, not part of the home office deduction. Two deductions, not one.

If you’ve never run the math, take two minutes with our free home office deduction calculator. It pulls your home’s square footage from your address and estimates your annual savings. No signup, no email required. Just the number.

Mileage

If you drove to a Walmart to grab throw pillows, picture frames, or fresh flowers to stage an open house, that’s deductible business mileage. If you drove to a UPS Store to drop off a Walmart mail-order return, that’s also deductible.

The IRS lets you deduct those drives at the 2026 standard business mileage rate of $0.725 per mile.

If you drove to a charity to drop off donated items you bought at Walmart, that drive is also deductible as charity mileage. The charity mileage rate is 14¢ per mile under IRS Publication 526. It’s a different rate than business mileage, but it counts.

The Shoeboxed app uses your phone’s location to keep a quiet record of every drive in the background. At the end of each day, it texts you the list. Reply which trips were business, medical, or charity, and we save a tax-ready mileage log inside your Shoeboxed account: date, miles, IRS rate, total. When tax time comes, the document your accountant needs is already done.

All your options for saving receipts, honestly

Shoeboxed isn’t the only way to do this. Here’s the honest comparison.

• Shoeboxed app. Snap a pic to log a receipt. The app also tracks your drives via GPS automatically. At the end of each day we text you the trip list, you reply which ones were business, medical, or charity, and we file the mileage receipt. You get both deductions in one app, plus a tax-ready export when you need it. This is the one I’d recommend to a friend. Full disclosure: I bought the company in 2025; I was a customer for years before that.
• Shoeboxed Magic Envelope. Mail us your shoebox of paper receipts; we scan, categorize, digitize. This is the original Shoeboxed service, built for people who still get paper receipts and want them digitized without doing it themselves.
• Email-to-Shoeboxed. For walmart.com orders, forward the confirmation email to your unique Shoeboxed address and we’ll file the receipt automatically. If you opted into digital receipts at checkout for in-store purchases, those work the same way.
• Paper folder or accordion file. It works, but thermal receipts fade in a year or two, paper gets lost, and good luck searching the pile when your accountant asks for a specific receipt from March 2024.
• Google Drive or Dropbox. Better than paper alone, worse than a tool built for receipts: no OCR, no categorization, no tax-ready export. You’re using a photo gallery as a filing cabinet.
• Photos on your phone. Fast and free, with the same trade-offs as Google Drive: your camera roll becomes a mess, and good luck finding the right receipt three years later.

A system you use beats a perfect one you don’t. If you’re a paper-folder person and you’ll stick to it, the paper folder is fine. Most people don’t stick with it. The Magic Envelope was invented for them.

Frequently asked questions

Can I look up a Walmart receipt online?

You can look up a Walmart receipt online or through the Walmart app. To look up a receipt, visit the Walmart receipt lookup tool on their website. Enter the purchase location and purchase details.

How do I save a receipt on Walmart App?

To save a receipt on the Walmart app, open the app and log in to your account. Click the Account button at the bottom right of the screen, then click Purchase History. At the top right of your screen, click the Scanner button. Scan the bar code on your receipt or type the barcode in manually to save the receipt to your account.

How long do I need to keep my Walmart receipts?

If you deducted the purchase as a business expense, the IRS expects you to be able to show the receipt for at least three years after you filed the return (Pub 583). Some situations stretch to six years. The safest move is to save every business-related receipt as you get it.

Save the next one

The bigger win is saving the next receipt the moment you get it, so you never have to hunt again. The IRS expects small-business owners and 1099 contractors to keep these for three years. Saving them as they arrive beats hunting for them three years later.

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About the author. I’m Doug. I bought Shoeboxed in late 2025 with an SBA loan after fifteen years of running other people’s companies as CEO. I’d used Shoeboxed myself back in 2010 at a previous gig and called it magical even then. I use it daily now. Small business owners deserve every dollar they’re legally entitled to keep, which is why I bought Shoeboxed and work hard to make it better.