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

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Pre-requisites

  1. BigCommerce Developer account. You can create one here.

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Required Settings

  • Mandatory Scopes
  1. store_v2_products
  2. store_v2_products_read_only
  3. store_v2_orders
  4. store_v2_orders_read_only
If you haven’t already created an app in BigCommerce, you’d need to create one.

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Creating an app in BigCommerce

To create a BigCommerce app and aquire the above mentioned credentials, please follow the steps mentioned below:

  1. Log in to your BigCommerce Developer account.
  2. Click on + Create an app button in the top right and provide the App Name.
  1. Go to your Apps catalog in Cobalt > Search for BigCommerce > Settings > Use your credentials > Callback Url > Copy it.
  2. Paste the Callback Url under Auth Callback URL and Load Callback URL.
  3. Select the mandatory scopes in the OAuth scopes section, as provided in your Cobalt BigCommerce settings page and click on the Update & Close button.
  1. Click on View Client ID option of the app and copy the Client ID and Client Secret displayed.

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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.

Cobalt lets you use pre-configured applications to play around. You can do so by selecting Use our credentials. However, if you wish to use your own application, select Use your own credentials. Provide the aquired Client Id and Client secret and save it.

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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.

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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.

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