BigCommerce

BigCommerce provides e-commerce software solutions and shopping cart software for online businesses.

For more information, click here.

Field (Account) Information

While configuring the Source or Destination of a Template or Transaction, you need to create an account to connect BigCommerce with Adeptia Connect. While creating an account, you need to specify the location from where Adeptia Connect will access the data.

Click  to add an account.

Specify the following information for BigCommerce: 

Field NameDescription
Account NameA short, descriptive name that helps you re-use this account in future.
Store Hash

A unique value that identifies the store.

You can obtain the Store Hash from the file downloaded after creating the BigCommerce API Account. Given below is the example of API PATH containing the Store Hash.

https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/<Store Hash>/v3/

API Token

The Access Token generated while creating the BigCommerce API Account.

Select ProjectSelect the project that you want to associate with BigCommerce account.

Triggers

A Trigger specifies when a particular Transaction will start executing. While configuring the Source of a Template, you need to choose an event.  

Following triggers are available for BigCommerce at Source.

Trigger Name

Description

New Customer

Triggers when a customer registers or updates details from the storefront, or is created or updated in the control panel.

New Order

Triggers when an order is received from the checkout or created/updated in the control panel.

New Product

Triggers when a product is created or updated from the control panel or via the API.

Fetch All Blog PostsFetches all blog posts of a BigCommerce store.
Fetch All ProductsFetches all products of a BigCommerce store.

When the Process all the existing records/files when this transaction is turned on option is selected, the system processes ALL records, the very first time the Transaction is turned on.  

Actions

An Action specifies how the data will be transferred at the destination location. While configuring the Destination (Target) of a Template, you need to choose an action.

 Following actions are available for BigCommerce at Destination.

Action Name

Description

Create Blog Post

Creates a Blog Post.

Create Customer Group

Creates a customer group.

Create Customer

Creates a customer.

Create Order

Creates and submits an order.

Create Product Brand

Creates a brand.

Create Product Category

Creates a category.

A category is an organizational unit to which you assign your products. When viewing your store, customers will click on a category to view products that have been assigned to that category.

Create ProductCreates a product.
Create Redirect

Creates an URL Redirect.

Redirects are used to create custom URL paths that map to resources on the storefront (such as products, categories, brands, etc.) or manually defined static URLs.

Generating the API Token and Store Hash

  1. Log in to the BigCommerce portal.
  2. Click Settings in the left panel.
  3. In the API section, click API Accounts. 
  4. Click Create API account.
  5. Select Token type as V2/V3 API token. 
  6. In the Name field, enter a name for the API account. 
  7. In the OAuth scopes section, select the required OAuth scopes to define the access level. For more details, refer to the BigCommerce documentation.

  8. Click Save. 
  9. On the BigCommerce API credentials dialog box, click Done. 
    This creates the API account. Once the API account creation is complete, a file containing the Access Token and Store Hash is downloaded.Â