Syndicating products to Bigcommerce

Who can use this feature?

Super users  and PIM user with Channel subscription module access and who have subscribed to Bigcommerce with valid API credentials.
Available on Accounts with subscription to Channel Subscription module

Bigcommerce is a SaaS based e-commerce platform that provides businesses with the tools and resources they need to create and operate online stores. PIMworks helps the businesses to create/update and manage their product information in Bigcommerce platform and vice-versa.

Prerequisites

1. Channel Subscription with Valid API credentials.
2. Attributes, Taxonomy creation in PIMWorks
3. Enriched Product Information and 100% healthcheck score
4. Channel Mapping

Channel Mapping

1. PIM Taxonomy node to be mapped against channel node "Bigcommerce_New_Updated"

2. Mandatory Attributes to be mapped for Bigcommerce channel
    Title , Price, Type, Weight (For simple product), Breadcrumb (Category)
    
3. Variant fields
    Parent SKU 
    Variant_display_name, Variant_display_value#, Variant_display_type should be mapped for Variant products.

4. Custom field
    It should be mapped against attribute field (eg. manufacturer) 

5. Metafields 
    Metafield namespace should be mapped against Metafield_namespace 
    Metafield# product_permission type should be mapped against Metafield# product_permission
    Metafield# value should be mapped against any attribute field (eg. manufacturer) 

Syndication from Product Detail Page: 

Users have the ability to send an individual product with or without variants to channel/store directly from the detail page of the product.

1. From the product list page, choose for the Bigcommerce channel and store, then proceed to navigate to the detailed page of a particular product

2. Click on the 'Syndicate' button to send the product information to the Channel.

The 'Syndicate' button will only become enabled when the Healthcheck status is 100%

3. After the API status changed from 'Initiated' to 'Synced/Unable to sync', user will be able to download the API report and review the product status.

Product ID serves as the unique identifier assigned by the channel and is maintained within PIMworks for subsequent syndication purpose

Syndication from Product Listing Page:

Users have the capability to choose multiple products, including those with or without variants, and send them to channel/store directly from the list page

1. On the product list page, navigate to the Bigcommerce channel and store and then proceed to select the products that are intended for syndication

User can search/filter option to filter products that needs to be sent to channel 

2. Click on the 'Syndicate' button to send the product information to the Channel.

Only products that have the healthcheck status as 'Pass' will be sent to the channel

3. To access the API report, navigate to the Product > Product Batches - Healthcheck batches

4. Users can download the API report by clicking on the download icon located under the Action section corresponding to the input batch name

5. Once a product has been successfully sent to the Channel, users will receive a notification indicating that the synchronization process has been completed.

You need to establish Metafield within Bigcommerce, and from PIMworks, users can then associate products with these Metafields. Users can send a maximum of 10 Metafields from PIMworks

Metafield_namespace should contain value as pimworks
Metafield# product_permission should contain permission set of the attribute value (eg. app_only - Available in list of dropdown values)  

Users can send a maximum of 50 Custom fields from PIMworks

Variant_display_name# should contain the name of the variant attribute 
Variant_display_value# should contain the value of the variant attribute 
Variant_display_type# should contain type of the attribute value (eg. swatch - Available in list of dropdown values)