Connect BigCommerce

01Before you start

• You need to be the store owner or have permission to create API accounts in BigCommerce.
• Your store’s blog must be switched on (Storefront → Blog). BigCommerce includes the blog on every plan.
• StrideRank only needs one permission: Content — modify. It cannot see orders, customers or payments.

02Connect step by step

1. 1

   Create a store API account

   In your BigCommerce control panel, open Settings → Store-level API accounts and click Create API account. Choose the token type V2/V3 API token and name it “StrideRank”.

2. 2

   Give it the content permission

   Under OAuth scopes, set Content to modify and leave everything else at none. Click Save.

3. 3

   Copy the token and the store hash

   BigCommerce shows the Access token once and downloads a text file with the same details. The API path looks like https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/abc123/v3/ — the code between stores/ and /v3/ is your store hash.

4. 4

   Open the publishing settings

   In StrideRank, open Settings → SEO autopilot and go to Publishing. Only owners and admins of the account can change the connection. Choose BigCommerce.

5. 5

   Enter the details

   Paste the store hash, your shop address (for example https://shop.yourbusiness.com) and the access token. Leave Blog path empty unless your blog lives somewhere other than /blog/.

6. 6

   Save and test

   Click Save connection, then Test connection. The test reads your blog through the API and reports the first problem it finds.

03Good to know

• Each article gets its own address under your blog path, built from the article’s URL slug, plus the meta description you approved.
• Images are shown from our image storage inside the article. BigCommerce’s separate thumbnail needs a file upload over WebDAV, so we leave it to you.
• Your contact form appears in each article as a clear button that opens your StrideRank form page — these systems clean up forms inside blog text, so a link is the reliable way.
• Choose Draft if you want to publish each post in BigCommerce yourself. The article then waits there until you make it visible.
• When we update a published article automatically, we first check that nobody changed it in BigCommerce. If it was changed, we leave it alone and tell you.