BigCommerce API Settings
BIGCOMMERCE FOR WORDPRESS
Multisite Setup
On This Page
- Getting Your API Credentials
- Setting up a WordPress Site Using API Account Credentials
- Additional Resources
When connecting more than one WordPress site to your BigCommerce store, you need to use an API account to link them. If you try to connect using the ‘connect your store’ flow, which uses a BigCommerce app to streamline the connection, your first WordPress site will lose its connection to BigCommerce.
Multiple sites can share the same API credentials or you can choose to create a new set of credentials for each site.
Getting Your API Credentials
- To get your store’s API credentials, log into your BigCommerce store and head to
Advanced Settings>API Accounts. Then, click the blueCreate API Accountbutton on the top left hand side.
Click ‘Create API Account’ to get credentials
- Click
Create API Account. This will open up a screen that will ask you to enter a name for the API account.
Fill in the Name and OAuth Scopes.
We suggest ‘WordPress’ for the name, although you can name it anything you’d like as long as it’s unique within your API accounts and is more than 3 characters.
- For the OAuth Scopes, select the following default settings:
| OAuth Scope | Default Selection |
|---|---|
| Content | None |
| Checkout Content | None |
| Customers | Modify |
| Customers Login | Login |
| Information & Settings | Modify |
| Marketing | Read-Only |
| Orders | Read-Only |
| Order Transactions | Read-Only |
| Create Payments | None |
| Get Payment Methods | Read-Only |
| Products | Read-Only |
| Themes | None |
| Carts | Modify |
| Checkouts | Modify |
| Sites & Routes | Modify |
| Channel Settings | Modify |
| Channel Listings | Modify |
| Storefront API Tokens | None |
| Storefront API Customer Impersonation Tokens | None |
- After you have finished setting a name and selecting scopes, press
Save. You will then see a modal that contains theClient ID,Client SecretandAccess Tokennecessary for the remaining fields in the WordPress API Credentials settings.
API Credentials
.txt file fownload
You’ll also see a
.txtfile download in your browser that contains the same information in an easy-to-read format, including your API Path again in case you didn’t copy it before.
.txt file download
Setting up a WordPress Site Using API Account Credentials
- To set up a WordPress site using this method, click
Enter your API credentialson the welcome screen in the plugin.
WordPress Plugin Welcome Screen
After clicking the text, you will be asked for your store’s API credentials and base path.
- Enter the API credentials on your WordPress site. Saving the API Credentials on your WordPress site will take you to name the channel that the plugin will create so that you can list products to the channel from within BigCommerce, and link orders back to the channel that come from the WP site. You can also link to an existing channel.
Congratulations, you’re done setting up your additional site!
WordPress Currency Processing
The WordPress sites you connect to your BigCommerce store will process in the same currency as the BigCommerce store.
Additional Resources
- Multisite Ecommerce with WordPress and BigCommerce (Developer Blog)