Learn how to connect your BigCommerce store and start using Gooten with your BigCommerce shop!
Check out how to get started with integrating and using BigCommerce with Gooten!
- Connect my BigCommerce store
- Create new products
- Sync existing products
- Edit Products
- Setting up BigCommerce Shipping
Connect my BigCommerce store
Connecting your BigCommerce store is quick and easy. Please follow the steps below to connect your store and start using BigCommerce with Gooten.
1. To add the BigCommerce store via the Gooten Platform, go to your Stores page and click on the Connect new store button.
- You can also connect your BigCommerce store via the BigCommerce tab in the product hub.
2. Click on the BigCommerce option as your platform.
3. Then, you can add your storename.mybigcommerce.com URL in Gooten and hit the Connect store button for installation.
- Please be sure to enter your "storename" followed by ".mybigcommerce.com" to ensure the connection works. An example of a correct URL is "store-a1b2c3def.mybigcommerce.com," which includes the store name and the BigCommerce URL.
- If you're signing up for Gooten for the first time and selecting BigCommerce as your store integration, please be sure to enter the subdomain correctly, as shown in the example above.
However, you can do this for as many stores as you want to install, but please note that each BigCommerce store can be connected to only a single Gooten account.
4. After you click the Connect store button, you will be redirected to log in to your BigCommerce account.
5. Log in to your BigCommerce account if you have an existing store, and then you'll be asked to install the Gooten app for BigCommerce. Click on the Install button.
6. Click on the Confirm button to allow Gooten to access your BigCommerce account.
7. Once you confirm the installation of the Gooten app in BigCommerce, you have the option to be redirected back to Gooten by clicking the Go to Gooten button.
- Your BigCommerce store is now connected!
Additionally, check out our brief tutorial video:
Create new products
Once your store is connected to Gooten, you can create new products in the Product Hub.
1. Start by clicking on the Add New Product button and working your way through the Product and Design pages until you get to the last step on the Product Details page.
2. Select the product you want to create by highlighting the product and clicking the Select Product button.
3. Use this page to select the different variants you want to create for the product. Click the Continue button once done.
4. Our Image Editor page is where you can upload your artwork design to your product using the Bulk upload artwork button.
- Here, you can organize and edit how your design appears for each SKU you've selected for the product.
After you're done editing your artwork on your product, click the Continue button.
5. This will bring you to the product mockup page to get a preview of what your artwork design looks like on your product.
- If you don't like how it looks or need to make any changes, click the Back button to return to the Image Editor page.
Click on the Continue button once you're satisfied.
6. This is the Product Details page, where you can rename your new product, add a description for the product, select different product options, push your product to your store as unpublished, set your prices for the product, and manage your variants before publishing the product to your store.
- Suppose you have a product category required for your BigCommerce account. In that case, you'll need to use the Collection dropdown list to select the product collection. You must select at least one collection if this is required.
- You can select the Push to store as draft option to publish the product as a fully unpublished product so that you can make edits before making it public in your store.
- To create this product for your BigCommerce store, select your store in the Sales Channels section.
- Make sure to have the Upload mockups to store the option selected.
Once you're done making changes to your product details, click on the Publish to stores button to finalize the process.
7. Now, your product will be created for your BigCommerce store and seen in the Product Hub.
8. If you go to your BigCommerce store and preview the product in your store, your newly created product will be available and added to your Gooten Product Hub and BigCommerce store.
For more details, please check out the following video tutorial:
Sync existing products
If you want to sync and add new variants to an already existing product listing in your BigCommerce store, please follow the steps below. Gooten lets you easily connect your store and sync products to and from Gooten.
1. In BigCommerce, create/add any new variants for products to sync to Gooten.
2. After saving those newly created variants, go into your Gooten Product Hub for that BigCommerce store, click on the BigCommerce tab, and then click on the Sync product button.
3. Select the product from BigCommerce that you want to sync to Gooten and click the Sync product button.
4. After selecting the product, follow the Sync a Product page's steps and select the product you connect to Gooten.
5. Select a matching product SKU that you want to connect to your BigCommerce product variant.
- Repeat this step for each variant, or use the Skip option to leave any of them out of the syncing process.
- This will sync your BigCommerce product to the matched product selected in Gooten.
6. Once you've connected the variants, click on the Continue to upload artwork button to design the product, and then you can go through with the rest of the syncing process.
To see our short video tutorial about syncing your existing products, please check out the video below:
Edit Products
You can change the name and description of the product in your BigCommerce store directly, or edit the product in Gooten and go all the way to the Product Details page.
Additionally, you can adjust or add a new image while editing. The design page is all yours!
Setting up BigCommerce Shipping
Setting up shipping for BigCommerce is done all within your BigCommerce store account. You will still have to pay our shipping costs for the products you order, but you can set up your customers' shipping however you want.
We highly recommend that you check out BigCommerce's existing documentation on how to set up shipping, but we'll briefly cover what you can do below as well.
Manual setup
1. Navigate to the Shipping page under the Store Setup section on the left-hand side of your BigCommerce interface.
On this page and under the Checkout Shipping Options, select the Add shipping zone drop, and then choose to add a country zone. If you want to select multiple countries in one zone, you will choose a custom zone.
2. You'll see a pop-up that lets you select the country you want to ship to. After selecting the country, click on the Submit button.
3. Once you've added your shipping zone, make sure to enable it and then click the Configure button.
4. Here, you have multiple ways to set up your shipping for your products and orders. Setting up these shipping options will change how your customers will pay you for shipping.
Please be aware that the shipping prices you set in BigCommerce can help offset the Gooten shipping costs we charge for the production and shipping of your orders.
You can choose to enable the following:
Free Shipping
You can offer your customers free shipping, so they won't have to pay any shipping costs. This does not mean you, as a partner, pay no shipping. You would still have to pay Gooten's shipping costs when we fulfill your orders.
If you plan to include free shipping in any way, we recommend that you update your product prices to reflect that your customers are not paying for shipping.
Flat Rate Shipping
You can set a flat-rate shipping price for all your orders, which will be charged to your customers when they place an order through your store.
Including flat shipping rates can help offset the Gooten shipping costs when you pay us when we fulfill your orders.
Weight or Order Total Based Shipping
You can set shipping costs based on order weight or order total.
- Setting your shipping costs based on weight will charge your customers for shipping based on the order's weight. We don't necessarily recommend this option, as order weights can vary.
- Setting your shipping costs based on the order total charges your customers for shipping based on their order total.
Including these rates can help offset the Gooten shipping costs we charge you when we fulfill your orders.
5. After you're done setting up your shipping option, you would click on the Submit button, and this applies the shipping option to your entire store.
Regardless of how you set up your shipping in BigCommerce, you are still responsible for paying Gooten's shipping costs for your orders. Setting up your shipping in BigCommerce helps you cover Gooten's shipping costs when orders are processed.
As a side note, you can set shipping costs for individual products when editing a product in BigCommerce. This can be done in the Shipping Details section when editing a product in BigCommerce.