Connect WooCommerce

A WooCommerce connection reaches your store through WooCommerce's own REST API, at your site's address. Bizomate keeps the site address and a REST API key — its consumer key and consumer secret — and calls your store with them.

Who can do this

Workspace Admins and Editors, on any plan — WooCommerce is not a premium connection. Viewers see the connection but cannot add or change it.

On WordPress's side, an Administrator or Shop manager, who can make REST API keys.

Before you start

• Your store on https. The key goes with every call, so Bizomate only sends it over https — an http:// address is refused.
• Pretty permalinks. WooCommerce's REST API lives at /wp-json/, which WordPress only answers when Settings › Permalinks is set to anything other than Plain.

Steps

In WordPress, make the key:

1. Sign in to your WordPress admin and select WooCommerce, then Settings.
2. Select the Advanced tab, then REST API.
3. Select Add key (or Create an API key if there are none yet).
4. In Description, type Bizomate.
5. In User, choose an Administrator or Shop manager. The key can do what that person can.
6. In Permissions, choose Read/Write. With Read only, every step that changes something is refused.
7. Select Generate API key.
8. Copy the Consumer key (it starts ck_) and the Consumer secret (it starts cs_). WooCommerce shows the secret only once.

In Bizomate, add the connection:

1. Select Connections in the bar at the top, then + Add connection.
2. Under Commerce, select WooCommerce. It reads "Stored credential".
3. In Connection name, type a name — for example Northwind shop.
4. In Site address, type your store's address — https://shop.northwind.example. If WordPress lives in a folder, include it: https://northwind.example/shop. Typed without https://, Bizomate adds it.
5. Paste the key in Consumer key — WooCommerce › Settings › Advanced › REST API › Add key, with Read/Write.
6. Paste the secret in Consumer secret — Shown once, beside the key. It is hidden as you type.
7. Leave Test the connection before saving ticked. Bizomate asks the store for its status before keeping the details.
8. Select Save connection. The button reads Testing, then the dialog closes.

The toast "Connection added" says "“Northwind shop” is ready. Every workflow in this workspace can use it."

What happens next

• WooCommerce steps list it under Connection: products, stock, orders, order notes, customers and coupons.
• WooCommerce triggers can use it — four store events that start a run when they happen.
• Test in the connection's panel answers "Reached", the store's name or address, and the WooCommerce version — for example Reached shop.northwind.example · WooCommerce 9.3.3.

Good to know

• Read/Write is needed. The test only reads, so a Read key passes it and then fails at the first step that changes something, and when publishing a workflow with a WooCommerce trigger.
• A new key. If you revoke the key in WooCommerce, every WooCommerce step fails. Make a new one, then in Bizomate open the connection's panel, select Revoke and Revoke connection, then Reconnect, fill in every field again and select Reconnect.
• Security plugins and firewalls on the site can block calls from outside. If the store works in a browser but Bizomate cannot reach it, check that the site allows requests to /wp-json/wc/v3.

If something goes wrong

Related

• Create, update or find a WooCommerce product
• Create a WooCommerce order, change its status or add a note
• Start a workflow from WooCommerce store events
• Testing a connection
• Revoking or deleting a connection