{"id":4156,"date":"2020-03-26T09:59:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T09:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/the-cart-type-you-have-selected-is-invalid-or-you-entered-invalid-auth-data\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:46:38","slug":"the-cart-type-you-have-selected-is-invalid-or-you-entered-invalid-data","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/the-cart-type-you-have-selected-is-invalid-or-you-entered-invalid-data\/","title":{"rendered":"BigCommerce error: The cart type you have selected is invalid or you entered invalid auth data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This error appears in our LitExtension app when the selected store type or BigCommerce connection details are incorrect. Please check that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Shopping Cart Type<\/strong> is set to <strong>BigCommerce<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Store URL<\/strong> is entered correctly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Account, API Path, and API Token<\/strong> are valid and copied without missing characters or extra spaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-14-1024x405.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-14-1024x405.png 1024w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-14-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-14-768x304.png 768w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-14-1536x607.png 1536w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-14.png 1566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our tool cannot connect to your store or run the migration if any of these details are incorrect. In case you have any other questions, please email us at\u00a0<strong>litextension@support.litextension.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[4219],"class_list":["post-4156","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-invalid-data"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7805,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4156\/revisions\/7805"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/25"}],"next":[{"title":"Why can't I create 301 redirects in my BigCommerce migration?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/create-301-redirects-bigcommerce-migration\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4162"}],"prev":[{"title":"You have reached BigCommerce API call limit","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/you-have-reached-bigcommerce-api-call-limit\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}