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Bundle Sync Shopify Guide

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Bundle Sync lets you add components to existing Shopify product variants to set up native bundles without the need to edit your theme or make any code changes. You can add set up multipacks, combos or custom products all through the app individually or in bulk through a simple to use csv file. Manage your products as any other and link components for seamless order and inventory management.

 

On this page

  • Before Starting
  • Sync to Bundle Sync
  • Set Up Bundles in App
  • CSV Bulk Upload
  • Add Bundle Components to Shopify
  • Remove Bundle Components from Shopify
  • Edit Bundle Components
  • Download Bundles
  • Resync Bundles

 

Before Starting

The app requires unique SKUs on all products and variants to maintain accurate syncing. Please ensure you have unique SKUs set up on all products and they are not duplicated on different products or variations. If the product does not contain variants we will use the handle if no SKU is set.

If you need to change SKUs or update variations the products will need to be deleted from the app and reimported by clicking the Sync to Bundle Sync button.

 

Sync to Bundle Sync

To get started please install in from Shopify app store and navigate to Apps > Bundle Sync

On the settings page you can sync your existing Shopify products by clicking the Sync to Bundle Sync button.

 

Set Up Bundles

After you have imported your Shopify products into Bundle Sync you go to Bundle Products link within the Bundle Sync app navigation bar.

To add components to an existing product click on any product

 

and then click Add Bundle Component. This will bring up a pop up where you can search by name or sku for the products you wish to add as components. You can add multiple products as bundle components.

 

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When adding components be careful you do not add a product that holds variants. Only the individual variants can be added as components. If you add the parent product the processes will fail for the bundle.

 

You can also search in the Bundle Product page and select a number of products to add to another product as bundle components. After you select all components you want to add click Bundle Selected button. You will be presented with a pop up where you search for the product you wish to add these components into.

 

CSV Bulk Upload

If you have a large number of products and/or bundles you may find it easier to upload via a CSV file.

Example template can be downloaded from here.

The structure of the csv import file is as follows:

  • handle: the the handle of the product. For products with variations the same handle will be used for all variations.
  • variant sku: the SKU of the variation. If the product does not have variants use the product SKU or if no SKU is set you can leave this column blank.
  • components: a list of product SKU's and the Quantity separated by a colon. Multiple entries can be made separated by semi colons. Example: babylight:1;babysheet:2;babytoy:1

To upload the file go to Bundle Products page and click Upload Product Bundles button.

The file won't work if you have more than three columns.

The order of columns needs to be: handle, variant sku, components

 

Add Bundle Components to Shopify

This button will add bundle components to your Shopify products which is different from creating bundles in our app and letting us manage components post purchase. 

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This feature will show your components in checkout:

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In this example we have created a bundle of 10 x the single battery. The item added to cart is a variant set as a pack size of 10.

Before bundles can be created in Shopify they first need to be set up in the app as per instructions below. Only a variant of a product can be set up natively. Any products that have bundle components but are not a variant on Shopify will be ignored in this creation process.

 

Remove Bundle Components from Shopify

If you create native bundles as above these can only be removed from your Shopify products by our app. This is a limit Shopify sets as they don't allow other apps to control the same products bundles. If you choose to uninstall the app please make sure you click Remove Bundles first to remove all components from your Shopify store products.

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Edit Bundle Components

In your Shopify admin product page you will see a link to edit bundle:

 

You can use this link to go to Bundle Sync and update the bundle components of a product. After you finish updating the product in our app click the Create Bundles button to resync all bundles.

 

Download Bundles

  1. Log into Bundle Sync app.
  2. Go to app Products page.
  3. Click Download Bundles

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This will produce a csv file that shows all your current bundles. You can use this when deleting products and recreating bundles.

 

Resync Bundles

If you update variants or SKUs on Shopify it can break our product syncs. We recommend performing the following to resync:

  1. Download existing bundles by clicking the Download Bundles button on app products page.
  2. Delete in our app any products you have edited on Shopify or click the Delete All button.
  3. Sync them back by clicking Sync to Bundle Sync button on our app product page.
  4. Upload CSV file of your existing bundles on app products page by clicking the Upload Product Bundles button. You can use the file downloaded earlier or create a new one.
  5. File can take up to 5 minutes to process. After this time you can Download Bundles again to confirm which have been successfully created. For rows that were not created please check your csv file.

 

 

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