Bundles and Variant Syncing - Inventory Management

Bundles and Variant Syncing - Inventory Management

CHS-Steve
Visitor
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Background: I have products that are sold as bundles of other products. I would like to keep track of my raw materials, some of which are sold as individual products (with their own underlying variants), and others that are not (simple raw materials). I have not found a solution that not only bundles the products together properly, but also correctly allows the Master Product Bundle's variants to link directly to the sub-component variants to correctly decrement the right component variant.

 

  • Product A (Master) consists of several components (x, y, and z). x, and y are sold individually also. z is an internal component that exists but we still need to track this inventory. On the surface, if x is sold out, A should also be sold out; This is easily handled by most bundle apps but ...
  • Product x has some variants (colours). Product A variants are not linked to product x variants so if customers buy A in colour RED, I also need product x to only have the colour RED decremented.
  • Shopify Bundles - the native one baked into Shopify does not allow you to hide the sub-product variants - there's also a limit of 3 options. Some of our products have 4 sub-products.
  • 3rd party apps will allow you to build the bundle by adding product x to product A, but there's no master product variant to component variant linking, so what ends up happening is Product A - RED is sold, then every single variant of product x (red, green, and blue) all get decremented by 1, which isn't correct.

Am I not thinking of or organizing my products in the right way to use existing apps? Or am I doing it right and no such app exists ? 

Replies 4 (4)

ProfitLabs
Shopify Partner
195 7 26

Hi @CHS-Steve ,

 

I understand your issue, and this should be possible with our app, Profit Bundles. However, since your issue is a bit complicated and may require some back-and-forth discussions, I suggest you download the app. From there, you can book a free 1:1 Google Meet with our in-house team, who will assist you in setting it up as you described in your query.

Downloading the app is free, and there is no paywall.

Abhinav | Shopify Partner
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- Creator of Sync Inventory - GoGo - Sync Inventory Across Multiple or Single Shopify Store .
- Creator of Profit Bundles - Sell Omni Sales Channel Bundles that you can fulfill yourself or even by a 3PL or Dropshipper.

Joe47
Shopify Partner
46 6 14

Hi @CHS-Steve,

 

Material Manager can achieve this. You would use the app as the source of truth for your inventory and rely on it to update the variant inventory in Shopify.

 

Within the app you would create a material for x, y and z. Since x comes in different colours you would create a material for each colour. So in the app you would have materials like:

 

  • Material x - red
  • Material x - blue
  • Material y
  • Material z

Then you would link your Shopify variants to the raw materials they require. The variants would look something like:

 

  • Product A - red (Linked to the materials x - red, y and z)
  • Product A - blue  (Linked to the materials x - blue, y and z)
  • Product x - red (Linked to Material x - red)
  • Product x - blue (Linked to Material x - blue)
  • Product y (Linked to Material y)

Then when any of those variants are sold it will decrease the inventory for the linked raw materials. Then when the raw materials inventory changes it automatically updates the Shopify inventory for all variants linked to it.

 

FusionInventory
Shopify Partner
52 2 4

Hi Steve, we have many merchants using our app Fusion Inventory for the use case that you’re describing. Please install it and let us know if you have any questions.

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

Easify-Mark
Excursionist
118 1 2

Hi @CHS-Steve,

The Easify Inventory Sync app lets you create and manage Bundle Inventory Groups, making it simple to sync inventory between a bundled product and its individual components, even when sold separately. Given that your products have color variants, you can set up multiple Bundle Inventory Groups as needed.

If you can share more details about your products, I’d be happy to guide you through the setup process 🤗. Alternatively, you can reach out to the Easify team for a tailored setup guide.