I'm scouting for a business solution, I haven't tried bigcommerce yet but would want to confirm a few things first.
Is there a way to import historical sales data via API? Is there a direct way to do this?
Here are some of the available fields that I'd like to import:
Date
Product ordered
Sale price
Do you think it would work if I create a new product for this, assign the sale price to it, create an Order, assign the previously created product, and lastly mark the order complete? However, I wonder how this would affect my reports.
You can import all orders from BigCommerce using API.
Check Orders API Call.
Simple PHP cURL Snippet to get orders.
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our Shopify store syncs with NetSuite and we send orders with line items from Shopify to NS. However there are often situations where we need to enrich the orders in NS with zero value items that we don't want on the shopify order. E.g. marketing materials that we want to send out to the customer.
SuiteQL isn't an option as there is no way to add / update
SOAP API seems like a winner but good-god it's complicated
Could i build a complex rules engine in suite script that looks at the order and based on whatever it add line items?
any advice from someone who has done it before would be great?
You can use User-Event/Workflow or Map-Reduce/Scheduled/Mass-Update scripts which will filter orders, and update orders.
I am a shopify partner, I am trying to get around the the variant limits of shopify by coding an app and also because my client has a complicated formula for calculating the price. I don't have a problem with the part that adds the information for my variants to the order, however when I want to modify the price based on the user selection, it doesn't seem an easy task to do.
I came across couple of apps which does the same thing by adding a new product or variation which is not optimal for my use case, is there any app that does the job without adding extra information to the database, if so, how?
Qualified Yes
Unfortunately, Shopify doesn't give us a lot of options to edit prices of items dynamically. Here are the two options that I know of that will allow you to adjust the price of a product directly - however, both have limitations.
Using Shopify Script Editor
If you're working with a Shopify Plus merchant, you can use the Shopify Script Editor to dynamically adjust the prices of products, provided that the direction you adjust is down. You cannot increase the price of a product using the script editor - so for your use case, the list price would have to be the most expensive possible price that the item sells for, which you would then discount appropriately using the app.
Using draft orders
Using an app, you can use Shopify's Draft Order API to create an order with custom discounts and/or create completely custom items that are independent of the products set up in the product database.
The basic flow for this is that when the customer clicks 'checkout' you halt the normal navigation, send the cart contents to your app, create a draft order with the appropriate pricing, then supply the front-end code with the draft-order checkout/invoice URL so that you can send the customer there instead of the normal checkout. This has several limitations, however, including that prices of existing products can only be discounted, not increased, and the fact that Shopify will not allow a customer to use discount codes on a draft order invoice - once an order is set up this way, Shopify's assumption is that all prices are final.
Disclaimer: Sorry if someone sensible doesn't like a response with a link :) I'm not related to this app I'm just a user.
On a project with complex pricing, we use the app Wholesale Pricing Discount by Wholesale Helper we liked because is easy to import multiple pricing by-product and relate it by customer.
this app does not multiply the products, they use customer tags. maybe that can give you some guidance.
An important rule on Shopify is you can't increase the price by API on an order, you can just reduce i
Hi we have a shopify plus store and we have to provide a auto discount based on the customer groipus.
Suppose a customr is in vip group he should get automatically 50 % discount.
I can see shopify don't provide this.
Can you please provide an API reference with which i can detect the customer group and apply discount on his cart.
Check out the Shopify Script Generator here https://jgodson.github.io/shopify-script-creator/
I use this for creating all our scripts and it makes it so much easier.
I currently have a script which automatically applies free delivery to all customers with a "VIP Platinum" tag from our loyalty program, you can do the same thing for discounts.
tip, don't forget to export and save the file somewhere, this way if you need to edit or add another rule to it you don't need to start from scratch again.
edit: forgot to mention, as per your requirement this doesn't apply a discount code either. you can use the generator to create another script to block discounts from being used with this if you need/want
I have a website hosted on bigcommerce. I want to import my previous order history in bigcommerce, so that my previous orders related to all customers will be displayed on bigcommerce dashboard. How to do that ?
This is relatively difficult to do because of the nature of orders and the fact that they use customer data as well as product data.
You can accomplish this by "injecting" orders through the API, but it would be optimal to have customer data in first then product data. The orders would need to be mapped to the product IDs in Bigcommerce which requires additional data massaging/transformation.
I want customers to order the product even if it is out of stock, however I want to keep the Inventory tracking option ON as well. So for example if I have a product with 100 items in the stock, if someone orders it I need to see how much left in the inventory and on the other hand of product is out of stock, customer should still be able to order it. Is there a way we can achieve this while overriding any API?
We got it to work by using ajax and javascript. Basically we replaced the text that is generated by bigcommerce for inventory with a little script that checks inventory through our ERP. We then turned off inventory tracking for all products and backorders are now available. I wish I could post a few lines of code to help you, but the script is specific to our database. You can still use all the other features of the API (order import etc.), but you are not using the api for inventory tracking.
Hopefully this gets the wheels turning.