How can I effectively bundle products on my online store?

Store Design
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Hi

I’m pretty new to Shopify. I have made these initial four products:

https://shop.b93.dk/collections/traeningstoj

As you can see (even thought it’s in Danish) the idea is to bundle

  1. a Basis packages consisting of socks, shorts and t-shirt (450 DKK)

https://shop.b93.dk/collections/traeningstoj/products/basis-traeningspakke-uden-tryk

  1. a Pro package consisting of socks, shorts, t-shirt, pants and top (1.100 DKK)

https://shop.b93.dk/collections/traeningstoj/products/pro-traeningspakke-uden-tryk

For both packages you can add print of a number of your own choice for 50 DKK extra:

https://shop.b93.dk/collections/traeningstoj/products/basis-traeningspakke-med-tryk

https://shop.b93.dk/collections/traeningstoj/products/pro-traeningspakke-med-tryk

Meaning that so far I did this as four packages in total.

Obviously not the best way, since I want to control the stock automatically. When a Small t-shirt is purchased in one package, this should automatically be reflected in the other packages.

Also, I’m running in to the issue of the max limit of 100 variants and at the moment I “solved” this by limiting the way you can combine the products with shorts, t-shirt, pants and top always need to be the same size, which is not what I want, since it’s not flexible for the potential customer.

I can see from the community answer below that there are some modules that fix the 100 variants limit, but ideally I want to avoid paying extra for a module to get this going.

https://community.shopify.com/post/1363809

https://apps.shopify.com/custom-options

https://apps.shopify.com/product-options

https://apps.shopify.com/more-than-100-variants

https://apps.shopify.com/best-custom-product-options

I understand from advice that I should solve this by adding a Collection template that looks like a PDP where customers can choose size for each product and add them all to cart. Then, I should be able create 2 collections using this template - 1 for Basic (3 products), 1 for Pro (5 products). And print could be set up either as a dummy product, or a variant of the above products with a different price. Also, a special price rule for the bundles, it could be set up with “automatic discount” or Shopify script.

But to do a collection template I need programming skills, as far as I understand? Or is there some template code out there I could re-use? Any advice is very welcome here, unsure where to start to do this collection template properly. Right now I only have the Standard collection to choose from.

I hope to hear from som clever people out there. You’re welcome to ping me directly at webmaster(at)b93.dk.

Best,
Klaus

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Hi

This is a common issue for our users where they have a master stock product which is then linked to multiple other bundles. The way to manage inventory is to bundle each product or variation that uses the master SKU or in your case multiple master SKUs. There are 3 points to consider:

  1. Inventory Management

Our bundle app lets you connect up all your products to correct SKUs and we then update their inventory based on the component stock level. So in your example if you have 3 different bundles but each one uses say the same shorts then then all will update if the shorts stock changes.

  1. Order Fulfilment

When you sell one of the variations the master stock level won’t reduce automatically. What Bundleup does is update the order post purchase by replacing the order line with the correct SKUs as order lines which then reduces their stock. This then feeds into point 1 above where it updates all linked products.

  1. Bulk Set Up

If you are dealing with variations there are a lot to go through and set up so rather than doing them one by one we offer a bulk CSV file upload solution to automate the process and reduce the time it takes to set up. This also lets you update bundles easier if you ever need to change them.

If you need help in setting up and testing please get in touch. You can also find our guide here: https://help.channelup.com.au/hc/en-us/articles/900004620086-Bundleup-Guide-for-Shopify

Regards

Tom