A guide to managing BigCommerce channels, which are separate sales surfaces such as storefronts, marketplaces, point-of-sale systems, or marketing sites connected to one store.

Use it to build multi-storefront setups, route sites to channels, assign catalog content, and work with the BigCommerce Channels API.

It helps you keep channel-specific products, categories, content, domains, currencies, and languages organised while sharing orders, customers, and inventory.

bc-channels — Skill for Claude Code by OrcaQubits

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins --skill bc-channels

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bigcommerce-commerce, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/bc-channels/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/bc-channels)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/bc-channels"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/bc-channels/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/bc-channels"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/bc-channels.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,068 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00042	$0.01068
Opus 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00427
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00214
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00107

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 17b84fcfc4bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bc-channels scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

bigcommerce-commerce/skills/bc-channels/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BigCommerce Multi-Channel & Multi-Storefront

Before writing code

Fetch live docs:

Fetch https://docs.bigcommerce.com/developer/docs/admin/multi-storefront/overview for multi-storefront guide
Web-search site:developer.bigcommerce.com channels api for Channels API reference
Web-search bigcommerce multi-storefront setup for configuration patterns

Channel Architecture

What Channels Are

Channels represent distinct sales surfaces connected to a single BigCommerce store:

Each channel can have its own domain, theme, currency, and locale
Products, categories, and content can be assigned per channel
Shared backend: orders, customers, inventory are centralized
Channel types: storefront, marketplace, pos, marketing

Default Channel

Every BigCommerce store has a default Stencil storefront (Channel ID 1). Additional channels are created for:

Additional storefronts (B2B + B2C, regional sites)
Marketplace integrations (Amazon, eBay)
POS integrations
Headless storefronts (Catalyst, custom)

Channels API

Endpoints

Endpoint	Methods	Description
`/v3/channels`	GET, POST, PUT	Channel CRUD
`/v3/channels/{id}/site`	GET, POST, PUT, DELETE	Channel site (domain)
`/v3/channels/{id}/active-theme`	GET, PUT	Active theme
`/v3/channels/{id}/currency-assignments`	GET, POST, PUT, DELETE	Currency config
`/v3/channels/{id}/listings`	GET, POST, PUT	Product listings

Creating a Channel

POST /v3/channels
{
  "name": "B2B Storefront",
  "type": "storefront",
  "platform": "catalyst",
  "status": "active",
  "is_listable_from_ui": true,
  "is_visible": true
}

Channel Site

Associate a domain with a channel:

POST /v3/channels/{id}/site
{
  "url": "https://b2b.example.com"
}

Product Channel Assignments

Assigning Products to Channels

PUT /v3/catalog/products/channel-assignments:

[
  {
    "product_id": 111,
    "channel_id": 2
  },
  {
    "product_id": 222,
    "channel_id": 2
  }
]

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago First seen · 155 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 17b84fcfc4bd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bc-channels is a skill published in the GitHub repository OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins (40 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,068 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-15.

E-commerce Magento a2a acp agentic-commerce ucp webmcp

bc-channels