I’m hoping someone can help me find a solution here. I have a situation where I sell individual items, but I also sell bundles that are required. For example, I may have a required uniform that includes pants, a shirt and a hat, and also offer those items for sale individually.
I have my store setup this way now, but it’s a backend nightmare. What I want to do is be able to create a bundle that presents and goes through the checkout like a single sku (IE: Required Uniform for $100) but then on the backend it gets broken out to 1 pair of 36 pants, 1 XL shirt and 1 hat.
I have found bundling apps that allow me to create a bundle, but it doesn’t prompt the user for a variant. I want the items to broken out to individual items AFTER the order so people can’t remove certain items from the cart, but I want them to be individual items so my fulfillment people can see that it’s 1 pair of paints, 1 shirt and 1 hat.
Hopefully that makes sense. If anyone has any ideas as to how I can present an item as a single item with a single price, but force the user to select from a list of variants and then break the order apart to those variants afterwords, I would be forever in your debt.
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Inbox you before you get started with what?
OK, how can you do it? Are you saying you can present a single item, then on the back end break it out?
Customer sees: UNIFORM, $100
When customer checks out they choose from required variants which are displayed, but they still only see one item in their cart (UNIFORM).
On the back end the order shows up as:
1 x Pants, size XX
1 x Shirt, size XXX
1 x hat
Are you telling me you can do that?
It looks like the PickyStory app does what I need. Now I just need to figure out how to make the cost make sense as we do high volume.
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Yes, I do. I got started and I’m using it.
I didn’t come here to hire a developer, I came here to see if someone in the community had solved this problem before.
Hi @dhendriksen ,
In case you’re interested, Simple Bundles can do what you’ve described. First, your customer can choose the variant of the bundle they want (you create an unlimited number of variants). Once your customer purchases the bundle product, the bundle will get broken down into their individual SKUs for fulfilment. Here’s a bundle example that explains how this works and looks like: https://help.simplebundles.io/article/56-example-creating-mix-and-match-bundles.
Any of our paid plans (Pro & Plus) give you unlimited bundles. Please let me know if you have any questions!
@Lichen_z - I will check your app out, but I want to make sure you understand a nuance. Let’s say that I need a bundle that includes a top, a bottom, a pair of socks and a hat.
Now for the top, you’ve got sizes 3XS-6XL, in mens and womens, and short sleeve, 3/4 sleeve or long sleeve. For the bottom you’ve got sizes 3XS-6XL, in mens and womens, and two different styles. For socks, you’ve got 3 different sizes and for hat you have 2 different styles.
The top is one product (with a lot of variants across those combos), same with bottoms, socks and hat. If you’re app requires me to select specific variants for the bundles, it isn’t going to work because I couldn’t possibly create every combo of variant.
I will go check it out now. Pickystory is the only one I’ve found so far that will work the way I need it to, but it’s a WAY bigger solution than I need and is far more expensive than makes sense for this situation.
@Lichen_z - I just tried your app and it appears that my fear has been validated. If I have multiple items in a bundle, with upwards of 100 variants per item, the potential permutations quickly become a absolutely unfathomably large. If I’m missing something, please let me know.
@dhendriksen For your scenario, you can use our infinite options bundle type. You’d just have to select the product which includes their variants and Simple bundles would create all the combinations for you. Here’s how it works: https://help.simplebundles.io/article/161-bundle-type-infinite-options-bundle-add-unlimited-bundle-options-without-variants. There are a few limitations with this bundle type which we’ve also outlined in the help doc. Hope this helps!
@Lichen_z - we use infinite options to do this today. The problem with infinite options is it notes the variants as line-items-properties and doesn’t actually select a SKU. When my team goes to fulfill it they need the SKU for the actual variant on the order and not just a note. Does that make sense?
Sounds like PickyStory is still the only app that can do it.
@dhendriksen Yes, that makes sense! I actually mean that we have an infinite options bundle type feature that is contained within Simple Bundles (not the “Infinite options” app). With this specific bundle type, you can create as many combinations as you’d like (without actually having to create all the combinations yourself) and when a customer selects the bundle they want and makes the purchase, you would see the bundle with its broken down SKUs.