BigCommerce - Get Your API Credentials

This article walks through getting the API credentials DropStream needs to connect to your BigCommerce store. If you’re setting up DropStream for your own store, complete these steps and then continue with Enable API Access. If a third-party fulfillment provider is configuring DropStream for you, complete these steps and share the credentials with them — they’ll handle the rest.

You’ll come away with four values: the Store Hash, Client ID, Client Secret, and Access Token. Start by gathering the Store Hash, which uniquely identifies your BigCommerce store.

1. Log in to BigCommerce.
2. On the left side of your BigCommerce Dashboard, click Settings.

3. Click Store-Level API Accounts.

   

4. Click Create API Account.

   

5. Make sure Token type is set to V2/V3 API token.
6. Under API path, your Store Hash is the part of the URL that follows /stores/ and precedes /v3/.

For example, if your API path is https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/abcde/v3/, then your Store Hash is abcde.

Note down this Store Hash.

OAuth Scopes

1. For The API Account’s OAuth Scopes, ensure the following minimum scopes are set:

   Resource	Access Level
   Content	Modify
   Checkout content	Modify
   Customers	Read-only
   Customers login	Login
   Information & Settings	Read-only
   Marketing	None
   Orders	Modify
   Order transactions	Modify
   Create payments	None
   Get payment methods	Read-only
   Stored payment instruments	Read-only
   Products	Read-only
   Themes	None
   Carts	Read-only
   Checkouts	Read-only
   Sites & routes	Read-only
   Channel Settings	Read-only
   Channel Listings	Read-only
   Store Logs	Read-only
   Store Locations	Read-only
   Store Inventory	Modify
   Fulfillment Methods	Read-only
   Order Fulfillment	Modify
   Metafield Ownership	None
   Metafields Access	Standard

2. When you’re done, click Save.
3. In the API Credentials screen, note down the Client ID, Client Secret, and Access Token and store them securely. Then click Done.