Account-level APIs
Lesson 5 of 12 · 15 min
Introduction
Account-level APIs operate similarly to admin APIs but deal with data on the account level rather than the store level. A single BigCommerce account can be associated with multiple stores.
The GraphQL Account API is the only existing account-level API.
GraphQL Account API
The GraphQL Account API supports:
- Managing BigCommerce control panel users and the stores they are assigned to. This feature is useful for Enterprise merchants who need to audit existing users or integrate with third-party user management systems.
- Unified billing management for tech partners.
Authentication
The dashboard for creating account-level API accounts can be accessed from the BigCommerce control panel. When creating an account, you’ll specify the OAuth scopes the account has access to.
Like with store-level API accounts, each account is associated with a client ID, secret, and access token. The account UUID will be displayed as well.
Provide the OAuth access token in the X-Auth-Token header of GraphQL Account API requests.
Example Request:
