BigCommerce

The BigCommerce integration publishes Grandranker articles directly to your BigCommerce store's built-in blog. It authenticates with a Store API account access token and your store hash. If you have already connected your BigCommerce store for product sync on the Products page, the blog integration can reuse that store's token. No second API account needed.

How to Connect

1. Log in to your BigCommerce control panel.
2. Go to Settings → API accounts.
3. Click Create API account → Store API account.
4. Set scopes: Content: modify, Products: read-only and Information & Settings: read-only.
5. Save and copy the Access Token.
6. In Grandranker, open Integrations, pick BigCommerce, and fill in the form:
   • Store Hash: the code in your API path. From api.bigcommerce.com/stores/abc123/v3/, use abc123.
   • Access Token: the token from step 5.
   • Default Status: Draft or Published.
7. Click Test Connection to confirm, then Save & Connect.

If your store is already connected on the Products page, the form pre-fills the store hash and shows "Using the store already connected on the Products page". You can leave Access Token blank to keep using that store's token.

Publishing & Verifying

Articles publish as posts on your BigCommerce blog with your chosen default status. Scheduled articles from the Content Planner publish automatically.

To verify:

• Publish one article from Grandranker.
• In your BigCommerce control panel, open the blog section. The post should be listed as draft or published, per your Default Status.
• If Published, open the post on your storefront's blog URL and check the formatting.

To disconnect, open the BigCommerce integration page and click Disconnect.

Troubleshooting

Test Connection fails

• Check the Store Hash. It is only the short code from the API path (abc123 in api.bigcommerce.com/stores/abc123/v3/). Not your store URL.
• Check the Access Token. It must come from a Store API account (not an app API account) and is shown once at creation. If you lost it, create a new API account.
• Confirm the scopes match step 4. Without Content: modify, the token cannot create blog posts.

Posts publish but don't show on my storefront

• Default Status set to Draft keeps posts hidden until you publish them in the control panel. Switch to Published and save for automatic go-live.
• Make sure the blog is enabled and visible on your storefront theme. Headless storefronts do not render the built-in blog automatically.

The token stopped working

Deleting or regenerating the API account in BigCommerce invalidates the token. Create a fresh Store API account with the same scopes and re-save the form. If you were relying on the store connected on the Products page and that store was disconnected, enter a token directly instead.

I want to publish to a different store

Enter that store's Store Hash and a matching Access Token. Then save. Hash and token must belong to the same store or the connection test will fail.

Questions? Contact us at [email protected].