Can I implement reverse bundling on my online store?

[jmager]

Hi All,

I’ve been searching for an app or other solution that will help me solve for what I would call “reverse bundling” on my Shopify Store. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find anything that would work. Turning to the community here to see if anyone might be familiar or have a solution on how to implement! Any help or suggestions are appreciated 🙏

Overview:

I sell one main SKU,  SKU “A.” SKU A is often ordered together with some smaller ticket accessory items, SKUs “B” and “C”. This happens on about 40% of all orders.

When a customer orders A+B+C I pay for the pick and pack of 3 items with my fulfillment provider. I can pre-bundle this combination into a new SKU called SKU ABC with my manufacturer and then send it to my fulfillment provider. SKU ABC would then only count as one pick cost from my fulfillment provider – saving me significantly on pick and pack costs. 

Note: I do not want to offer SKU ABC upfront to the customer because we have found it is an optimized selling experience to get the customer to purchase item A and then upsell them on B & C during the checkout or post purchase experience. 

Currently, I have only seen solutions that do the opposite, taking an ABC bundle and then breaking it down into the components to send to the warehouse (A+B+C). 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make this possible?

[PaulNewton]

Hi @jmager 👋 , not really reverse bundling more like post purchase bundle building|optimization   /shrug.

To do this after an order is placed means order editing is required, so yes a third party app* is required to automate that.

Apps like usemechanic can be scripted for specific needs, see  https://tasks.mechanic.dev/demonstration-order-editing 

and the common counter example using components  https://tasks.mechanic.dev/auto-add-bundle-components-to-orders-post-purchase 

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*At this time shopify-flow does not have an action to remove items from orders. Though it can add items and there is a send-http-request action to issue api requests for advanced usage.

[NGDgroup]

@jmager Did you find a solution for this already? Looking for the same automation !

[jmager]

If you are on the premium version of Shopify, this can be solved via their new bundle feature. Otherwise, you will need to go a more custom route with API and custom code to solve your issue 

a) editing the order post purchase 
b) editing the order information sent to your warehouse via their API

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[mdalamin706688]

I have developed a solution for this. Could you please review the flow carefully and confirm if it aligns with your requirements? Once approved, I can proceed with providing the complete app solution.

[mdalamin706688]

I have developed a solution for this. Could you please review the flow carefully and confirm if it aligns with your requirements? Once approved, I can proceed with providing the complete app solution.