How to create BigCommerece API Credentials/Accounts

To get the API Credentials, you have to create API Accounts in the admin page of your BigCommerce store. Only the user set as store owner can create API Accounts, and a maximum of 50 accounts can be created per store.

Creating Store API Account

1. Login to your BigCommerce admin panel.
2. Go to Settings > Store-level API accounts.
3. Click Create API Account button. Choose Stencil-CLI Token from the dropdown.
4. Enter a Name for this API account (e.g: development).
5. Then Choose  Publish theme.

1. Click on Save button. If it’s successful, a .txt file containing the API credentials will download to your computer and a pop-up containing the same credentials will be displayed.
2. Store this credentials to a safe place by copying/pasting the contents of each field out of the pop-up or by keeping the downloaded .txt file.