{"id":992,"date":"2019-02-25T10:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T10:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/how-to-get-api-path-and-token-from-bigcommerce\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:59:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:59:31","slug":"how-to-get-api-path-and-token-from-bigcommerce","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/how-to-get-api-path-and-token-from-bigcommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get API path and token from BigCommerce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow these steps below to get API path and token from your BigCommerce store.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Firstly login to your admin account, in control panel at the left side, go to <strong>Setting <\/strong>or <strong>Advanced Setting <\/strong>&gt; <strong>API &gt; Store-level API accounts<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7452\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BigC-API1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BigC-API1.jpg 1640w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BigC-API1-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BigC-API1-1024x268.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BigC-API1-768x201.jpg 768w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BigC-API1-1536x403.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Click <\/span><b>Create API Account<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-994 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/password2.png\" alt=\"get api path and token in BigCommerce\" width=\"1363\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/password2.png 1363w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/password2-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/password2-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/password2-1024x491.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1363px) 100vw, 1363px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Enter a <\/span><b>Name<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the app\/integration corresponding to your account and copy the <\/span><b>API Path<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Token type<\/strong>: select V2\/V3 API token<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0specify the API resources and permissions to which your app\/integration requires access. Choose <\/span><b>Modify<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for all items.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3686 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bigAPI.jpg\" alt=\"get api path and token in BigCommerce\" width=\"1408\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bigAPI.jpg 1408w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bigAPI-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bigAPI-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bigAPI-1024x568.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. Click <\/span><b>Save, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a box will appear with the following information. Copy and enter <\/span><b>Done<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you have taken necessary information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-996 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/password4.png\" alt=\"get api path and token in BigCommerce\" width=\"1355\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/password4.png 1355w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/password4-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/password4-768x371.png 768w, https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/password4-1024x494.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1355px) 100vw, 1355px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In case you have any other questions, please reach out to us via:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/litextension.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/signin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Flitextension.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Frequests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticket system<\/a> (highly recommended)<\/li>\n<li>Email us at <a href=\"mailto:contact@litextension.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact@litextension.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[1053,1434,1433,1435,1069],"class_list":["post-992","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-api","doc_tag-bigcommerce-api","doc_tag-bigcommerce-migration","doc_tag-bigcommerce-token","doc_tag-litextension"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/992","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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7454,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/992\/revisions\/7454"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/25"}],"next":[{"title":"How to find BigCommerce Product ID?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/how-to-find-bigcommerce-product-id\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4149"}],"prev":[{"title":"How to enable maintenance mode in BigCommerce?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/bigcommerce\/how-to-enable-maintenance-mode-in-bigcommerce\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}