BigCommerce component

A component to work with BigCommerce online stores

General information

This is the component for working with BigCommerce online stores on AVA platform.

Purpose

The component allows you to connect to the BigCommerce platform through REST API. For more information about BigCommerce API, visit the BigCommerce’s official documentation.

Credentials

To use the BigCommerce connector, you need the following:

Store hash

Specify your unique ID for store.

Access Token

The following steps outline how to generate store API Credentials.

Navigate to Advanced Settings > API Accounts > Create API Account.
Give the account a name (it will only be visible to store users).
In the OAuth Scopes section, select the minimum scopes the app will require.
Select Save.

Obtaining store API credentials

Triggers

Get New and Updated Objects

This trigger collects all new or new and modified objects for selected type and send messages with each of them. First run will collect information for all the time.

Config fields

Object type to Lookup - a dropdown list where you should choose the object type, which you want to poll. E.g. Orders;
Field to poll - Indicates field to poll (new objects or new and modified objects)

Input Metadata

Autogenerated depending from selected Object type

Limitations

Each call receive maximum 250 records

Actions

Make Raw Request

Executes custom request

Config fields

Don’t throw error on 404 Response - (boolean, optional) Treat 404 HTTP responses not as error, defaults to false.

Input field description

Method - (string enum (GET,POST,PUT,DELETE, PATCH), required): HTTP Verb for the request.
URL - (string, required): Path of the resource relative to the URL base. Mostly starts with API version.
Request Body - (object, optional): Body of the request to send.

Output field description

Status Code - (number, required): HTTP status code of the response.
Response Body - (object, optional): JSON representation of the response body from the request.

Create Object

Creates selected object. Action creates a single object. Input metadata is stored in the component.

Input field description

Object type to Create - a dropdown list where you should choose an object type, which you want to create. E.g. Product.

Update Object

Updates selected object. Action updates a single object. Input metadata is stored in the component.

Input field description

Object type to Update - a dropdown list where you should choose an object type, which you want to create. E.g. Product.

Limitations

The set of fields to update can be different from the set of fields when the object is creating.

Delete Object

Deletes selected object by ID.

Input field description

Object type to Delete - a dropdown list where you should choose the object type, which you want to delete. E.g. Product

Metadata description

ID - string, BigCommerce object ID

Result is an object with a property id in case of successful operation.

Lookup Object by ID

Lookup an object by ID.

Input field description

Object type to Lookup - a dropdown list where you should choose the object type, which you want to lookup. E.g. Product
Allow ID to be omitted - checkbox, if checked - ID can be omitted and the empty object will be returned, else - ID is required.
Allow zero results - checkbox, if checked and nothing is found - empty object will be returned, else - action throw an error.

Metadata description

ID - string, BigCommerce object ID

Lookup Objects

Lookup objects satisfying specified criteria.

Input fields description

Object type to Lookup - a dropdown list where you should choose the object type, which you want to lookup. E.g. Product;
Output method - a dropdown list of following values: Emit all, Emit page and Emit individually;
Number of search terms - a text field where you can specify a number of search terms (not less than 0 and not greater than 99). If 0 is specified then all records will be returned.

Metadata description

The input metadata can contain different fields depending on the configuration field Output method :

Output method - Emit all or Emit individually:

Maximum number of records - an optional positive integer (the default value is 250);

Output method - Emit page:

Page size - a required integer from the interval [1-250]. It defaults to 250 if a value not from the interval is specified;
Page number - a required non-negative integer (greater than 0); It defaults to 1 if a negative value is specified.

Note that the number of records the component emits may affect the performance of the platform/component.

Groups of fields for each search term go next:

Field name - a string represents a lookup field (a list of allowed values is available);
Field value - a string represents value for selected field.

Output

The output data depends on the configuration field Output method:
Output method - Emit all, Emit page: an object with key results that has an array of records as its value;
Output method - Emit individually: a record.

Lookup Set Of Objects By Unique Criteria

Action to bulk map product SKUs to BigCommerce product IDs

Please Note: If no objects found - error will be thrown

Input fields description

Object type - a dropdown list where you should choose the object type, which you want to lookup. E.g. Products;
Conversion direction - a dropdown list where you should choose direction for conversion: SKU -> BigCommerce ID or BigCommerce ID -> SKU;

Metadata description

If Conversion direction is set to SKU -> BigCommerce ID:

List of SKUs to map (array, required) - list of SKUs values to map. E.g ["OLP", "TVBS", "KPZE"] If Conversion direction is set to BigCommerce ID -> SKU:
Big Commerce IDs to map (array, required) - list of IDs values to map. E.g [23, 34, 45, 56]

Output field description

result (object, required) - An object which contains BigCommerce IDs and SKUs as key value pairs

Upsert Object

Updates selected object if it is present and can be found by it’s ID. Otherwise creates new object with supplied parameters. Action updates or creates a single object.

Config fields

Object Type (string, required). Includes Customers & Orders. Notice that temporarily this action supports only Customer or Order object types. Support for other object types will be added shortly.

Input metadata

All required and optional metadata fields, obtained dynamically based on the type of the current Object.

Output metadata

The object that was created or updated by result of the action.

Limitations

Actions except Make Raw Request, Lookup Object (at most 1), Lookup Set Of Objects By Unique Criteria, Upsert Object and trigger Get New and Updated Objects are not fully tested, use them on your own risk only.* Between each two term’s group of fields implicitly applied “AND” logic.
The maximum number of Products returned is 250. More about filtering