Can someone explain how to link existing product listings within your shopify store to each other? For example if someone clicks on a certain product that should be bought with another product, how do you link the products together? I hope I am making sense…
Shopify has no native concept of linked products, synced variants, or more broadly product bundling, etc.
You have to either do this through theme customizations, or using apps by search for “bundling”, “kits”, “packs”,etc. Or build your own app.
The alternative is to make 1 product that represents all the “linked” products then reconcile the inventory either manually or using automation such as shopifys free flow app, or a sku-sync app, or scriptable service like usemechanic.
Inventory syncs: https://tasks.mechanic.dev/?q=sync
To create custom orders https://tasks.mechanic.dev/create-a-draft-order-from-the-cart
How about putting a description and a link to your second product inside?
You should edit the HTML of your first product with an anchor tag like <a href="the link to your other product">Click here</a>
Our app Variant Robot could be of great use to your shop:
https://admin.shopify.com/store/variant-robot-app
Variant Robot can automatically link your separately listed products that are perceived as separate variants, such as individually listed colors.
This allows you to display the different variations of the product on your product page.
The app features automatic synchronization, ensuring newly added products are linked together seamlessly.
When activating the app for the first time, you only need to define a few settings. This allows the app to understand the association between your separately listed products.