BigCommerce – private App
Steps to be performed on BigCommerce side
Please follow 5 simple steps shown below (click on the image to get it enlarged)
1. Please go to your BigCommerce admin home page (for example: store-weqlz4mfq9.mybigcommerce.com/manage/). On this page, click “Account Settings”
2. On Advanced Settings page, click “API Accounts”
3. Please click “Create API Account”
4. A drop-down opens with two options. Pease select the first option (Create V2/V3 API Token).
Please fill in the app name (Price2Spy)
After filling in the app name, change OAuth Scopes for Products to modify, and click “Save”.
5. The data you will need for Price2Spy part of the setup is API path, Client ID, Access token
Please check the BigCommerce screenshot on the right side – it shows the screen where the above parameters can be located, and offers possibility to save them in a TXT file.
If you have any problems connecting your BigCommerce store to Price2Spy, please send this file over to support@price2spy.com
Steps to be performed in Price2Spy
Please login to your Price2Spy account and do the following
1.Click Misc => Link My Store
2.Click BigCommerce (PRIVATE APP) and click Next
3.Fill in store details
- API URL = (this corresponds to API path defined in BigCommerce setup) (see above: point 5.)
- Client ID = (this corresponds to client id defined in BigCommerce setup) (see above: point 5.)
- ACCESS TOKEN = (this corresponds to access token defined in BigCommerce setup) (see above: point 5.)
Please be patient: depending on your store size and your server speed, it may take 30s or so to establish link to your BigCommerce
4. Choose storefront in drop-down and click next.
5.Select Categories (or leave default = all) from which the products should be copied
6.Click Matched products to see how many products are contained in the above categories, click Next
7.Finalizing operation details
- Name your operation (for example: BigCommerce| LINK)
- Define execution frequency (default = 1 day)
- Choose whether you want to be notified by email on each operation execution (default = OFF)
- Check ‘Do it now‘ if you want the products to be copied immediately (otherwise, the operation will be done according to the daily schedule)
- Define price check frequency (of the products created via Link My Store Operation)
8.Click Finish. Once your products have been linked from Shopify, you’ll see them in your Price2Spy account
Basic Info
- All product-related columns (product name, SKU, internal ID, custom fields, metadata, brand, supplier, and category) can have 250 characters max
- ImageUrl can contain 65,535 characters (64 KB)