API consumer key and consumer secret

For API communication between Business Central and your webstore, the WooCommerce Connector uses a consumer key and consumer secret. The WooCommerce Connector uses the consumer key and secret for authentication and access control purposes.

Generate an API consumer key and secret

For information about how to generate an API consumer key and secret, go to WooCommerce REST API.

The WooCommerce Connector supports saving the entire consumer key that is generated from WooCommerce. Although the full key is saved, the WooCommerce Connector masks and displays only the first 10 characters.

To configure the consumer key and secret in the WooCommerce Connector

  1. Choose Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature., enter woocommerce connector setup, and then choose the related link.

    The WooCommerce Connector Setup page opens.

  2. In Consumer Key, specify the consumer key that you generated in WooCommerce.

  3. In Consumer Secret, specify the consumer secret that you generated in WooCommerce.

Passing consumer key and secret through the authorization header or as query string parameters

Typically, the WooCommerce Connector passes the consumer key and secret through the authorization header in the HTTP request. However, there may be cases where servers have issues parsing the authorization header correctly. To prevent these parsing issues, the WooCommerce Connector provides the capability for you to specify that the consumer key and secret be passed as query string parameters, instead of through the authorization header.

Important

Important:
Passing the consumer key and secret as query string parameters is less secure than passing the consumer key and secret using the authorization header. It is recommended that you only pass the consumer key and secret as query string parameters when this method of authentication is absolutely necessary.

To configure the WooCommerce Connector to pass the consumer key and secret as query string parameters

  1. Choose Lightbulb that opens the Tell Me feature., enter woocommerce connector setup, and then choose the related link.

    The WooCommerce Connector Setup page opens.

  2. Turn on API Key as Query Param.

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