Shopify have recently released a new bundles application where you can combine several products together from a merchandising perspective.
This feature has been long awaited by a lot of merchants. Particularly those not on Shopify Plus where through custom code and utilising Shopify Scripts it was feasible to mimic the functionality now offered as standard.
The key advantage (as I see it) of a bundle is that it gives the flexibility to sell products individually at one price but combined in the bundle at a separate price.
See the following super quick video showing through how to create a bundle and merchandise it.
- Shopify Scripts
- This app is not compatible with Shopify Scripts. So if you have any Scripts running they have to be paused before this app can work.
- This is a frustration and a limitation now, but Shopify Scripts is soon being deprecated and at that point this becomes a ‘non-point’
- Variant Limit
- The bundle app has the same variant limit as other parts of Shopify. So 100 variants. If you have products with lots of variants (or multiple options such as size and colour) then this needs to be considered but it will handle a great majority of products no issue.
- Processed Orders
- Something that is worth mentioning also that is not covered in the video is how the orders actually come through to the Shopify Admin.
- Essentially it just splits the items out into individual items and prorates the discount accross the items. (So for example if you had two items, one worth ￡100 and the other worth ￡200 in the budle and you knocked ￡30 off on the budle the items would be on the processed order at ￡90 and ￡180.)
- The below image shows how the items get passed through. The way it operates shouldn’t result in any issues in down stream systems such as warehousing tools. If you can process a normal order, you should be able to process this order.
I hope this is helpful - any questions feel free to drop me a line or a comment :)
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1 年Fantastic! I've been looking for insights on the Shopify Bundles app, and your article seems like just the thing I need. ?? Thanks for sharing your expertise!
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1 年Nice one Nick Hurst. I wrote a quick note on this earlier. It’s promising but misses a few basic things like being able to add bundles from the admin panel. Hopefully in time…!
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1 年Great write up, yeah we are working on our native roll out at present, for “bundle builder” it’s a great step forward and while it has some rough edges is really opening up a space I am pretty passionate about so yeah love the push forward!