Introduction

In this article, we describe how to integrate with a BigCommerce vendor. If your vendor has a BigCommerce store, Onport can automatically sync products and orders.

Disclaimer

Share this video tutorial or this support article with your BigCommerce vendors to ensure they provide the correct credentials needed for the BigCommerce integration.

Getting started

As a vendor integrating into Onport, orders pushed to your store will simply appear as a normal order. It should be picked up and processed by any third-party apps you have installed (e.g. Shipstation). The invoicing address will be set to the merchant you are drop shipping with and the shipping address to the customer.

Onport will automatically match up the products being drop shipped and won't change any product details in the store. To enable the integration with Onport, the vendor needs to do the following:

1. Log into the store, using the store owner’s username/password.
2. Select Advanced Settings.
3. Select API Accounts. This will display the Store API Accounts page.
4. Select Create API Account. This will display the Create API Account page shown above.
5. In the Name field, enter "Onport". (This name is for internal use only, so assign any name that you will recognize.)
6. In the OAuth Scopes section, select the permissions highlighted in the screenshot below. Save at the page’s lower right-hand corner.

Once your vendor has done this, you should receive the required credentials. Now go to Onport and create a new dropship provider under the contacts - tab. Select BigCommerce, and enter the following details:

1. Store hash: to get the store hash, you need to receive the API path, which is a unique URL. At the end of the URL, there is a series of numbers and letters, e.g. wyiiub56c0- this is what you need to copy into the store hash field in Onport.   

2. Client ID: Will be given to you when you created the new API account 

3. Access token: Will be given to you when you created the new API account

Example: 

Save, and you can fetch the products. Next, go ahead and set up the Order Automation

1. Navigate to Contacts > Orders
2. Click on BigCommerce, and add in the Store hash, Client ID, Access Token, and Order Status Code, click save

In order to set the Order Status Code you will need to open Optional Fields

Once you have completed these steps, your vendor's BigCommerce store will be integrated with your Onport account, and you can start publishing their products onto your store.

Setting the order status

When syncing the order to the vendor's store, you can specify a status. When the status is not specified, it will be automatically set to "0", which will set the status to incomplete. We recommend checking with the vendor for their preferred status. You'll need to enter the value in the Status ID column.

Troubleshooting

Variation vs Customization

If a BigCommerce feed fetches and you only see parent products being imported, rather than all the sizes, colors and any other variations, it’s likely related to the fact that this was created in BigCommerce as a product customization rather than a variation, as per BigCommerce documentation.

For each of the variants to pull through, each of the variants needs to have its own SKU, therefore creating a product variation is in order. Customization works great for an isolated store (or to keep SKU count in check) but it's not the best option if you're involved in a dropshipping operation.