PIM for BigCommerce: Import Your Catalog and Enrich It with AI
Manage your BigCommerce product data in one place: find the gaps, fill specs and translations with AI, and keep every product complete and consistent.
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BigCommerce PIM Connector & Integration
Import your BigCommerce catalog into WISEPIM with an automation, enrich it with AI, and publish the result to your other sales channels.
AI Content Enrichment
Before WISEPIM
Basic BigCommerce product description with minimal detail and poor SEO.
After WISEPIM
Rich, detailed description with SEO keywords, clear benefits, and compelling selling points.
Why product content matters
Shoppers who abandon a cart over bad titles and descriptions
42%
Salsify (PIM vendor), 2024 Consumer Research
Shoppers who returned a product over an inaccurate or misleading description
~60%
Akeneo (PIM vendor), 2025 Consumer Returns Report
WISEPIM's AI fills in the missing specs, attributes and translations in bulk, across your whole catalog.
Your options
BigCommerce PIM options compared
You can manage BigCommerce product data in four ways. Each one fits a different catalog, team and budget.
A BigCommerce PIM is a product information management system that sits next to your store. You write, check and translate product data in one place, and the PIM sends it to your sales channels. Whether you need one depends on how many products you sell, in how many languages and on how many channels.
Read this page before you plan a full round trip. The WISEPIM BigCommerce connection imports your catalog into WISEPIM. It does not write products back to BigCommerce today, so changes reach your store through a file import or stay in WISEPIM for your other channels.
BigCommerce's own tools
The product editor, variant options, custom fields, product import and export, and channel-specific translations for multi-storefront stores. Enough for a single storefront with a moderate catalog.
Apps from the BigCommerce App Marketplace
Feed, bulk edit and translation apps each solve one job inside BigCommerce. They change the store's data; they do not give you one checked source of product data for every channel.
A PIM with a BigCommerce connector
Other PIM vendors connect to BigCommerce through apps or partners. If writing back to BigCommerce automatically is a must, ask each vendor whether its connector does that, and compare them in our best PIM software overview.
WISEPIM
A PIM with AI enrichment and translation built in, a free plan, and a BigCommerce import. A good fit when you want to clean up and enrich a BigCommerce catalog, or feed it to other channels, without a long implementation.
BigCommerce alone is often enough for one storefront in one language. A PIM starts to pay off with thousands of SKUs, supplier data that needs cleaning, several languages, or marketplaces and ad channels next to your store.
Common BigCommerce Product Data Challenges We Solve
Our customers face these issues every day. Here's how WISEPIM solves them.
Thin Product Copy Across a Growing Catalog
Do many of your BigCommerce products still have a one-line description and an empty meta description?
Import the catalog into WISEPIM and generate descriptions, page titles and meta descriptions with AI in bulk. Quality scores show which products still need work.
Selling Beyond BigCommerce Means Retyping Product Data
Do you want your BigCommerce products on a marketplace or in a second webshop without copying them by hand?
Bring the catalog into WISEPIM once, enrich it there, and export it to the channels WISEPIM connects to, such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Kaufland and Google Merchant Center.
Custom Fields Hold Specs as Plain Text
Do you keep spec sheets, ingredient lists or compliance data in BigCommerce custom fields?
WISEPIM imports each custom field as a product attribute. There you can review the values, fill gaps with AI and reuse them on other channels.
Weak Titles and Missing Identifiers Cost Shopping Impressions
Are your products getting disapproved in Google Merchant Center or losing impressions to thin titles?
WISEPIM's quality checks flag products without identifiers, AI rewrites titles for Shopping, and the Google Merchant Center connection sends the result to Merchant Center.
A Second Copy of Your Catalog Goes Stale
Worried that new BigCommerce products never make it into your PIM?
Put the BigCommerce import in an automation with a schedule trigger, for example every night, so WISEPIM picks up new and changed products on its own.
A Complete PIM Solution for BigCommerce
Centralized Product Data
Import your BigCommerce catalog and manage all your product information in one place.
AI Content Enrichment
Generate high-converting product descriptions automatically
Attribute Mapping
Drag each BigCommerce field onto a WISEPIM attribute in the attribute mapper, or let auto-map match fields by name.
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Why Choose WISEPIM for BigCommerce?
- ✨Your whole catalog in one placeImport products, categories, images and stock from BigCommerce and work on them inside WISEPIM.
- 🚀Better product content with AIUse AI to write clear descriptions and SEO meta for every imported product.
- 🌍Stays current on a scheduleA scheduled automation imports the catalog again, so new BigCommerce products show up in WISEPIM without manual work.
- ⚡️Reach more channelsPublish the enriched catalog to the marketplaces and webshops WISEPIM exports to.
Get More from Your BigCommerce Store with WISEPIM
Tools built specifically for BigCommerce merchants to make product data management easier.
Import through an automation
Add the Import Products action with BigCommerce as the source to an automation. Run it by hand or on a schedule.
Import the core catalog
Pulls in names, SKUs, descriptions, prices, stock, weight, page titles, meta descriptions, categories, images and custom fields.
Enrich and translate with AI
Write descriptions, page titles and meta descriptions with AI, and translate them inside WISEPIM for every market you sell in.
Publish to your other channels
Export enriched products to the channels WISEPIM writes to, such as Shopify, WooCommerce or Google Merchant Center. WISEPIM only reads from BigCommerce.
What most teams miss when integrating BigCommerce
BigCommerce has a handful of edge cases that quietly break catalog syncs. Here's what we've run into in production, and how WISEPIM handles each one.
WISEPIM Only Reads from BigCommerce
The BigCommerce connection is import only. WISEPIM never changes products, prices or content in your store.
How WISEPIM handles it
Publish enriched content to your other channels, or download a CSV from WISEPIM and upload it in the BigCommerce admin to update the store.
Variants, Modifiers and Brand Names Are Not Imported
Each BigCommerce product arrives as one base product. Variants and modifiers are skipped, and the brand is stored as its BigCommerce brand ID instead of the name.
How WISEPIM handles it
Add the brand name in WISEPIM after the import, for example with a bulk edit. Keep the variant structure in BigCommerce.
Imports Run from an Automation
The Import button on the Products page does not support BigCommerce. Imports run from an automation with the Import Products action, started by hand or on a schedule. Orders are not imported.
How WISEPIM handles it
Create the automation once and add a schedule trigger, and WISEPIM keeps the catalog current on its own.
API Rate Limits Can Slow Big Imports
BigCommerce limits how many API calls you can make in a short window, and some plans allow fewer. An import that ignores the limit gets a 429 error and can stop partway through.
How WISEPIM handles it
WISEPIM watches how many calls are left. When fewer than 5 remain, it pauses and waits for BigCommerce's reset timer before continuing, so long imports finish without you restarting them.
How the import works
How the WISEPIM BigCommerce import works
You connect with a store-level API account, then pull your catalog into WISEPIM whenever you choose. The connection reads; it does not write.
01
Create a store-level API account
In your BigCommerce control panel, open Settings, then Store-level API accounts, and create an API account named WISEPIM. Set Products to read-only, which is all the import needs, and Information & Settings to read-only for the connection test.
02
Copy the credentials
BigCommerce shows a client ID, client secret and access token once, when you save. Copy the access token, and copy the store hash from the API path, the part between /stores/ and /v3/.
03
Connect in WISEPIM
Enter the store hash and access token. The client ID and secret are optional; WISEPIM does not need them for the import. The connection test reads your store's information to confirm the token works.
04
Import from an automation
Add an Import products action for your BigCommerce store in automations. Run it by hand, or add a schedule trigger to refresh WISEPIM daily or weekly. Import reads 250 products per request and slows down when BigCommerce's rate limit runs low.
05
Enrich and publish
Fill gaps, rewrite descriptions and translate with AI. Then export a file for BigCommerce's product import, or publish to the other channels WISEPIM connects to.
The connection test must pass before an automation can run the import. Products match by SKU, and a product without a SKU gets a code based on its BigCommerce ID, so give products real SKUs before you rely on matching. Each run updates the products it finds, so a scheduled import keeps WISEPIM close to what your store shows.
Catalog model
Variants, custom fields and storefronts
Three BigCommerce concepts decide what a PIM import can carry. Here is how WISEPIM handles each of them today.
Variant options and modifiers
Variant options such as size or colour create variants, each with its own SKU; BigCommerce allows up to 600 per product. Modifiers, such as a gift message, are not variants. WISEPIM imports the base product and does not import variants or options.
Custom fields
Custom fields are free name and value pairs on a product, up to 250 characters per value. WISEPIM imports every custom field as an attribute, so specifications kept there become structured data you can check and translate.
Storefronts and translations
Multi-storefront stores keep translations per channel and locale. WISEPIM imports your default product text, not those channel translations. Translate in WISEPIM instead, and keep one source per language.
Field by field
What the BigCommerce import brings in
An honest list, so you know what to fill in WISEPIM after the first import.
- Imported: name, SKU, description, price, stock level, availability, visibility as status, weight, depth, width, height, UPC, page title and meta description as SEO fields, the main image and the image gallery.
- Categories: imported first, with their parent and child structure, and linked to products.
- Custom fields: each one becomes a WISEPIM attribute. The brand comes in as a BigCommerce ID, not as a name, so map brands in WISEPIM.
- Not imported: sale price, cost price, MPN, GTIN, brand names, variants and options, and storefront translations.
- Description HTML: with Escape HTML switched on, tags are stripped from imported descriptions. Leave it off to keep your formatting.
Use cases
What BigCommerce teams use the import for
An import-only connection still saves a lot of work when the bottleneck is product content, not the sync itself.
A product content audit
Import the catalog and let Quality Guard score it. You see which products lack descriptions, images, SEO fields or specifications before you start writing.
Feeds and marketplaces
Use WISEPIM as the clean source for channels next to your store, such as Google Merchant Center, with titles and attributes written for each channel instead of copied from the storefront.
New languages
Translate the catalog with AI in WISEPIM, and review it per language before it goes to any channel. Each language keeps its own text, so one market's edits never overwrite another's.
Supplier data
Combine the BigCommerce catalog with supplier files on SKU, so specifications, EAN codes and cost from suppliers end up next to your own product text.
Troubleshooting
When the BigCommerce import fails
Most problems come from the API account, not from the import itself.
- The connection test fails: check the store hash, the value between /stores/ and /v3/, and paste the access token again without spaces. If you lost the token, create a new API account.
- Access is refused: open the API account and check that Products and Information & Settings are at least read-only.
- The automation does not start: the import only runs once the connection test has passed. Test the connection in WISEPIM first.
- Fewer products than expected: your plan's product limit caps the import. Check the plan, or import fewer products first.
- Descriptions lost their formatting: Escape HTML is switched on in the connection settings. Switch it off and run the import again.
Back to BigCommerce
Getting improved content back into BigCommerce
Without an automatic export, a file is the bridge. Done well, it is a controlled and reviewable step.
WISEPIM exports products to CSV or Excel with your own column layout and the fields you choose. Match the columns to BigCommerce's product import file, export the products you have improved, and import that file in your control panel. Test it on a few products first, because an import writes whatever the file contains.
WISEPIM also imports CSV and Excel files with column mapping. That is the way to bring in what the BigCommerce import skips, such as sale prices, cost or variants from a supplier file or an earlier BigCommerce export.
Your stack
Where ERP, DAM and PIM fit with BigCommerce
Each system owns one kind of data. Problems start when two systems both think they own the product description.
ERP: stock, cost and orders
Your ERP stays the source for purchasing, cost and finance. WISEPIM has no ready-made connector for most ERP systems; teams feed it with CSV or Excel files, the WISEPIM API or an automation with a webhook trigger. See PIM vs ERP.
DAM: images and files
WISEPIM includes digital asset management with folders, tags, versions and links between assets and products. Imported BigCommerce images land there with their products.
PIM: product content
Titles, descriptions, attributes and translations are written and checked in the PIM, with Quality Guard rules for each channel you sell on.
BigCommerce: the storefront
BigCommerce runs the storefront, checkout, payments and its own channels. Today it is a source for WISEPIM, and it receives improved content through its product import.
Getting started
A safe first week with BigCommerce
The import only reads. Your store keeps selling and nothing changes in BigCommerce while you work in WISEPIM.
01
Import the catalog
Create the API account, connect, and run the import from an automation. Check product counts and categories against your store.
02
Fill what the import skips
Add brands, GTINs, sale prices or variants from a CSV file, and set up attributes and categories in WISEPIM. See PIM migration.
03
Enrich one category
Rewrite titles and descriptions with AI for one category, translate where you need to, and review the result.
04
Publish
Export a file for BigCommerce's import, or send the products to Google Merchant Center and other channels WISEPIM connects to.
Connect one BigCommerce store per WISEPIM project. If you run several stores, give each its own project.
Pricing
BigCommerce PIM pricing and the free plan
The BigCommerce import is included in every WISEPIM plan, with unlimited users. There is no separate connector fee.
Plans are priced by the number of products and the monthly AI credits for writing and translating. Start on the free plan with your own BigCommerce products, then move up when your catalog grows. Each plan's product limit also caps how many products one import brings in. See all details on the pricing page.
| Plan | Products | AI credits per month | Per month, billed yearly | Per month, billed monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 100 | 50 | €0 | €0 |
| Lite | 500 | 2,000 | €119 | €149 |
| Starter | 1,000 | 4,000 | €299 | €399 |
| Starter Plus | 2,500 | 10,000 | €399 | €529 |
| Growth | 5,000 | 20,000 | €499 | €649 |
| Growth Plus | 7,500 | 30,000 | €599 | €779 |
| Business | 10,000 | 40,000 | €699 | €899 |
| Business Plus | 15,000 | 55,000 | €849 | €1,099 |
| Scale | 20,000 | 70,000 | €999 | €1,299 |
| Scale Plus | 30,000 | 100,000 | €1,149 | €1,499 |
| Pro | 40,000 | 120,000 | €1,299 | €1,699 |
| Pro Plus | 50,000 | 150,000 | €1,499 | €1,949 |
Sources
BigCommerce facts on this page
BigCommerce setup steps and limits come from BigCommerce's own documentation, checked in October 2026.
- BigCommerce, store-level API accounts and scopeshttps://docs.bigcommerce.com/docs/start/authentication/api-accounts
- BigCommerce, products overview, variants, modifiers and custom fieldshttps://docs.bigcommerce.com/docs/store-operations/catalog/products-overview
- BigCommerce, product variant limitshttps://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/api-reference/rest/admin/catalog/product-variants/create-product-variant
- BigCommerce, product translations per channel and localehttps://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/docs/admin/store-configuration/translations/products
WISEPIM vs Other Solutions for BigCommerce
| Feature | WISEPIM | Native BigCommerce | Other PIMs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Data ManagementHow product information is managed and enriched | Advanced AI-powered system | Basic fields only | Manual management |
| Multilingual SupportSupport for multiple languages and markets | Automated translation and SEO | Manual translation | Basic translation |
| Attribute ManagementHow product attributes are managed and mapped | Dynamic and AI-suggested | Fixed attributes | Manual mapping |
| Content EnrichmentHow product descriptions and content are created | AI-powered and automated | Manual entry | Template-based |
Key BigCommerce concepts (and how they map to WISEPIM)
If you're new to the platform, or evaluating it, here are the terms that matter for product data, and what they translate to in WISEPIM.
Storefront / Channel
A BigCommerce sales destination, such as a Stencil store, a headless storefront or a marketplace channel.
WISEPIM imports the shared catalog, not the per-storefront overrides for name, description or price.
V3 Catalog API
BigCommerce's modern REST API for products, variants, modifiers, custom fields, and categories. Replaces the older V2 API for catalog operations.
WISEPIM reads products, categories, images and custom fields through the V3 API.
Variant
A SKU-bearing combination of options like size and color. A 3-color × 4-size product has 12 variants.
Variants are not imported. Each product arrives in WISEPIM as one base product.
Modifier
Per-product customization (engraving, gift wrap, dropdown choices) that doesn't generate a new SKU but can affect price.
Modifiers are not imported and stay in BigCommerce.
Custom Field
Untyped name/value pair attached to a product. Used for spec sheets, ingredient lists, and arbitrary metadata.
WISEPIM imports each custom field as a text attribute you can edit, enrich and reuse.
Stencil
BigCommerce's Handlebars-based theming framework for traditional storefronts. Replaces the old Blueprint themes.
The storefront type does not matter to WISEPIM, because the import reads the V3 Catalog API.
Price List
B2B Edition feature for tiered pricing, customer-group overrides, and currency-specific pricing.
Price lists are not imported. WISEPIM reads the base product price.
Channel Listings API
Endpoint for managing per-channel overrides on a product (name, description, SEO meta, price, sale price, visibility).
WISEPIM does not read channel listings, so per-channel overrides stay in BigCommerce.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about connecting WISEPIM to your BigCommerce store.
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