Overview
The Lyftron Provider for BigCommerce offers the most natural way to access BigCommerce data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing BigCommerce data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s BigCommerce data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months
The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
- Real-time access to BigCommerce.
- Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
- Collaborative query processing.
Prerequisites
The user must have credentials for BigCommerce, Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron
Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps
Create your BigCommerce connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:
Step1. Add your connection
Click on Connect section on the left panel → Click on Add Connection button
Step2. Select your connector
In the connector selection panel, search and click BigCommerce for your connection
Step3. Enter your connection details
In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish BigCommerce connection with Lyftron.
InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=YourClientId;OAuthClientSecret=YourClientSecret;StoreId='YoUrSToREId';CallbackURL='http://localhost:33333'Key | Value | Field |
Connection Name | Enter your connection details | Required |
InitiateOAuth | GETANDREFRESH | Required |
OAuthClientId | Your BigCommerce OAuthClientId | Required |
OAuthClientSecret | Your BigCommerce OAuthClientSecret | Required |
StoreId | Your BigCommerce StoreId | Required |
CallbackURL | http://localhost:33333 | Required |
Logfile** | Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file. [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx | Optional |
Verbosity** | Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging | Optional |
** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.
If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.
Step4. Test your connection
Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.
Step5. Save your connection
Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron BigCommerce connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.
Data Model
Overview
This section shows the available API objects and provides more information on executing SQL to BigCommerce APIs.
Key Features
- The provider models BigCommerce categories, customers, and orders as relational tables and views, allowing you to write SQL to query BigCommerce data.
- Stored procedures allow you to execute operations to BigCommerce, including downloading and uploading objects.
- Live connectivity to these objects means any changes to your BigCommerce account are immediately reflected when using the provider.
Name | Type | Description |
Categories | Tables | Returns Product Categories. |
Currencies | Tables | Returns data from Currencies table. |
Customers | Tables | Returns data from Customers table. |
OrderItems | Tables | Returns Items ordered for every order. |
Orders | Tables | Returns data from Orders table. |
OrderShipments | Tables | Returns shipments and their corresponding orders. |
ProductImages | Tables | Returns images registered for products. |
ProductOptions | Tables | Returns data from Products table. |
ProductOptionValues | Tables | Returns data from Products table. |
ProductReviews | Tables | Returns reviews registered for products. |
ProductVariants | Tables | Returns data from Products table. |
OrderItemOptionValues | Views | Returns data from OrderItems table. |
OrderStatuses | Views | Returns order statuses. |
ProductVariantValues | Views | Returns data from Products table. |
ShipmentItems | Views | Returns data from Items within a shipment. |
ShippingAddresses | Views | Returns shipping addresses and their corresponding orders. |
Advanced Settings
To view a detailed advanced settings options, go to BigCommerce Advanced Settings Complete list of the parameters you can configure in the connection string can be found by clicking Connection String Parameters.