Handling inventory for decorated products (bundles?)

Handling inventory for decorated products (bundles?)

hstb
Shopify Partner
159 3 89

I don't mind paying for an app.

 

How do you handle inventory for products that have a base item which is sometimes sold unembroidered but most times sold with embroidery? Also, it's mostly in inventory unembroidered but here and there we have pieces that are embroidered and we need to track their inventory when that happens.

 

When the customer places an order we charge them for the decorated item and the decorated item therefore decreases its inventory while the undecorated item's inventory remains the same.

 

Ideally, there's a bundle app where one item in the bundle is a product and one item is a service or non-physical item. Shopify's app didn't work for our purposes. I don't recall why but I know it doesn't work for POS which is where these sales occur. There were perhaps other reasons.

 

Any apps to recommend or processes to suggest?

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PaulNewton
Shopify Partner
7721 678 1619

 


@hstb wrote:

 where one item in the bundle is a product and one item is a service or non-physical item


Just make it a variant option unless your using all 3 productOptions already or hitting the variant limit.

currently in developer preview there may be future changes to variant limits to 2K+

 

Or just use an inventory sync app, or roll custom logic for your use case using an automation app like mechanic:

https://tasks.mechanic.dev/?q=sync 

 

 

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hstb
Shopify Partner
159 3 89
As you're suggesting, we have one variant unembroidered and one variant
embroidered. But when we sell an embroidered, it's not reducing the
inventory of the unembroidered.
PaulNewton
Shopify Partner
7721 678 1619

If an inventory pool is shared among different skus, inventory sync'ing is needed.

If a specific bundling solution can't be found off the shelf that is.

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hstb
Shopify Partner
159 3 89
Yup, hence my question about bundle apps

FusionInventory
Shopify Partner
57 2 4

Hi @hstb , our app Fusion Inventory will work perfectly for you here. It can keep the inventory for your embroidered and unembroidered variants in sync. Take a look at our user guide to see you can use it.

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

I can be reached at aosoble[AT]fusioninventory.app

Easify-Mark
Excursionist
159 2 2

Hi @hstb,

If you maintain separate inventories for unembroidered and embroidered products (where some pieces are already embroidered), you can easily set up separate inventory for each variant.

 

However, if your products are all unembroidered and you only embroider them when an order is placed, here’s an alternative approach: create 2 variants (Unembroidered and Embroidered) for customers to choose from, as you’re doing now. Then, use the Easify Inventory Sync app to create an Inventory group that links these 2 variants and shares the same inventory, based on your unembroidered products.

 

This way, when a customer selects Unembroidered, the quantity of the Embroidered variant will also adjust, and vice versa.

 

If you’d like to give the app a try or need help with the setup, feel free to let me know or reach out to the Easify team for quick assistance and a step-by-step guide 🤗.

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