You sell Top & Skirt available both as individual items and in bundled sets – Top & Skirt Set, often offered at a discounted rate compared to buying single items separately.
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This guide will walk you through setting up bundle groups for Top, Skirt, and Top & Skirt Set when customers select 1 size for the entire set. For example, if customers choose size S for the Top & Skirt Set, they will receive a Top – S and a Skirt – S.
If you want to allow customers to choose different sizes for the Top and Skirt within the set (e.g., Top – S and Skirt – M), then please follow the other guide to manage your inventory.
Although the individual Top, Skirt, and the Top & Skirt Set are separate products, the inventory of individual Tops and Skirts determines how many Top & Skirt Set products you can sell.
For example, if you have 5 Tops and 10 Skirts, the maximum number of Top & Skirt Sets you can sell is 5.
The challenge is that when you create and list them as separate products in Shopify, you must set separate inventories for each, with no link between the 3 products.
Furthermore, when one inventory changes, it should impact the others as well. For example, if a Top & Skirt Set is bought, the quantity of individual Top and Skirt must also be deducted.
In short, using Shopify’s default functions to set up your products does not accurately reflect their inventory.
These challenges highlight the need for a solution that accurately manages inventory across all products.
To solve this, you can create Bundle Groups in the Easify Inventory Sync app. This will link the inventories between the Top, Skirt and Top & Skirt Set products, ensuring they stay in sync.
How to Set Up the Bundle Groups
You’ll need to create separate bundle groups for each variant of the Top & Skirt Set product.
For example, if your Top & Skirt Set product comes in 3 sizes (S, M, L), you’ll need to create 3 bundle groups – one for each size.
Each bundle group will connect the same Size variants of both Top, Skirt and Top & Skirt Set. For instance, the Top & Skirt Set – Sgroup will link the inventory ofTop & Skirt Set (size S) with Top (size S) and Skirt (size S). The same applies to the M and L sizes.
After creating the first bundle group, e.g.,Top & Skirt Set – S, you can duplicate that group to quickly create groups for the other sizes (M, L).
If you have multiple set products requiring similar Bundle Group setups, consider using the app’s Import function to create all bundle groups in a CSV file and import them into the app.
Below is the setup guide for creating the bundle group for the S variant:
1. Navigate to the app’s menu and select Bundle Groups.
2. Click on the Add new group button to create a new bundle group.
3. Set a Title for the bundle group, which should include the Size variant name to distinguish among bundle groups. For example: “Top & Skirt Set – S”.
4. Add 3 product variants to the group, including:
The S variant of the Top & Skirt Set product
The S variant of the Top product
The S variant of the Skirt product
5. Define the Master and Component products:
Master product: Top & Skirt Set – S
Component product: Top – S and Skirt – S
6. Specify the Quantity per bundle for the Component product:
When a Top & Skirt Set (size S) is purchased, the quantities of both the Top (size S) and Skirt (size S) will each be reduced by 1.
Therefore, the quantity per bundle for the 2 base component products (Top – S and Skirt – S) is 1.
Once your bundle groups are set up, inventory synchronizations will begin.
For example, when a Top & Skirt Set (size M) is purchased, its quantity will be reduced by 1, and the quantities of the Top (size M) and Skirt (size M) will automatically adjust based on the predefined quantity per bundle (1).
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Automatic Master Quantity Adjustment:
To automatically adjust the available quantity of Top & Skirt Set product based on the actual quantities of the Top and Skirt products, follow these steps:
Enable the “Update Master based on changes in Component inventory” feature on the Settings page.
The adjustment will occur immediately after you create the bundle group or enable this setting.
Manual Quantity Update Process:
If you update the Component product quantity on Shopify’s Product editing pages, consider the following:
The Master product inventory will not update automatically, even if the “Update Master based on changes in Component inventory” feature is enabled.
To update the Master quantity after changing Component inventory on Shopify’s Product editing pages: Navigate to the Bundle Groups listing page, select the group containing those products, and click on the “Update Master quantity” button.
If you run into any challenges while setting up your Bundle Groups, feel free to reach out to us for assistance through our convenient in-app live chat, by submitting your request via our contact form, or by sending an email to support@tigren.com. We’re here to help!
