Setup
Connect to your BigCommerce app for OAuth.
To setup your BigCommerce app in Cobalt for OAuth, you will need the following credentials from your BigCommerce Developer account:
- Client ID
- Client Secret
- Scopes
Pre-requisites
- BigCommerce Developer account. You can create one here.
Required Settings
- Mandatory Scopes
- store_v2_products
- store_v2_products_read_only
- store_v2_orders
- store_v2_orders_read_only
Creating an app in BigCommerce
To create a BigCommerce app and acquire the above mentioned credentials, please follow the steps mentioned below:
- Log in to your BigCommerce Developer account.
- Click on
+ Create an app
button in the top right and provide theApp Name
.
- Go to your
Apps catalog
in Cobalt > Search forBigCommerce
>Settings
>Use your credentials
>Callback Url
> Copy it. - Paste the Callback Url under
Auth Callback URL
andLoad Callback URL
. - Select the mandatory scopes in the OAuth scopes section, as provided in your Cobalt BigCommerce settings page and click on the
Update & Close
button.
- Click on
View Client ID
option of the app and copy the Client ID and Client Secret displayed.
Configuring credentials in Cobalt
App settings page lets you configure the authentication settings for an OAuth 2.0
based application. For your customers to provide you authorization to access their data,
they would first need to install your application. This page lets you set up your application credentials.
Provide the acquired Client ID and Client Secret under Settings of the app and save it.
Configuring Scopes
Cobalt lets you configure what permissions to ask from your users while they install your application. The scopes can be added or removed from the App settings page, under Permissions & Scopes
section.
For some applications Cobalt sets mandatory scopes which cannot be removed. Additional scopes can be selected from the drop down. Cobalt also has the provision to add any custom scopes supported by the respective platform.
Once the scopes has been added to the application in Cobalt, go to your BigCommerce Developer account and update the scopes as added on Cobalt.
Select the OAuth App created for Cobalt > Click on Edit App
> Add the scopes as added in Cobalt under OAuth Scopes
> Click on Update & Close
.
If you are facing scopes missing or invalid scope error. Make sure you are not passing any custom scope not supported by the platform. And, the scopes selected here are identical to the ones selected in the platform.
Actions and triggers
Once the above setup is completed, you can create orchestrations of your use-cases using BigCommerce actions and triggers. Following are the set of BigCommerce actions and triggers supported by Cobalt.
- Order Created - Triggers when an order is created on BigCommerce.
- Order Updated - Triggers when an order is updated on BigCommerce.
- Refund Created - Triggers when a refund is created on BigCommerce.
- Cart Updated - Triggers when a cart is updated on BigCommerce.