A merchant selling weight-based products in Small and Large sizes wants to offer packaging choices at checkout when customers purchase multiple Small items of the same product. They’re asking if customers can choose between individual packaging or consolidated packaging, with potential savings incentives for bulk packaging.
Shopify’s Native Capabilities:
Shopify does not include this feature by default.
Recommended Solutions:
Line Item Properties (Simplest): Add custom dropdown/radio buttons to product pages using code snippets in product template files. Customers select packaging preferences when adding items to cart, with choices visible in order details.
Shopify Apps (Automated): Apps like Infinite Options, Dynamic Checkout Options, or Bundle Builder provide more sophisticated packaging choice functionality and can handle conditional logic for multiple-item orders.
Draft Order API (Advanced): For merchants with development resources, this allows dynamic order modification and discount application based on packaging selections.
Status: The discussion remains open with one detailed response providing implementation options but no confirmation of which solution the merchant will pursue.
We sell 100’s of products based on weight.
The options are Small and Large
Small is 1/10 the size of large.
We would like to know if we could have an option during the checkout when a customer buys multiples of the small of the same product
We could have a questions asking do you want these individual packaged or shipped in one package with options of providing incentives such a s a savings if sold in one package.
Is this already built into Shopify?
Hi @PPCUser
I totally get what you’re trying to do, and it makes a lot of sense—offering customers the choice between individual or bulk packaging with a possible incentive at checkout. Let me break this down for you.
Short answer: No, Shopify does not have a built-in feature to allow customers to choose packaging options at checkout by default. However, you can set this up with a workaround.
There are a couple of ways to achieve this, depending on how flexible you want the solution to be:
Line item properties let customers add extra choices when they add a product to their cart—this is the best way to ask them whether they want individual or bulk packaging.
Here’s how to do it:
1-Edit your product template to include a simple dropdown or radio button for packaging options.
2-Add this code to your product page’s product.liquid or main-product.liquid file:
Packaging Option:
3-This will store the customer’s choice with the order and show up in the order details for fulfillment.
If you want a more automated way to offer packaging choices only when customers order multiples of the same small product, an app would be the best way. Check out these:
If you’re comfortable with code or have a developer, you can use Shopify’s Draft Order API to dynamically modify orders based on packaging choices and apply discounts.
If you just need a simple solution, line item properties are the easiest and cheapest way to go. If you want automation, an app would be better. Shopify doesn’t support this natively at checkout, but with the right tweaks, you can get exactly what you need!
Hope that helps! If you need extra help, just let me know asap. Thanks
Daisy.