Shopify Bundles

Shopify announced that they increased their variant limit to 2000 back in ...January? But still has not rolled it out. This greatly limits the bundling app.

Worse things:
1. When I make a bundle it loses all knowledge of the original products offered variants and tries to combine aspects of a listing that never were options. (aka a pair of a book with rope offered in a few thicknesses and colors wont import the knowledge from the original rope listing about which colors are in which thicknesses)

2. No bulk editing. This is ridiculous. But the items created by the bundling app cant be bulk edited. This means every price has to be opened and set manually one at a time for each variation.

3. Unwanted variants have to be deleted one at a time. This means any excess variants the bundle app creates (see issue 1) have to be slowly deleted one by 1 (regular shopify products support deleting a few variants at once...)

4. No "optional" flag for making a bundle. Every item we bundle MUST be purchased by the customer all together. Meaning customers cannot choose to mix and match a kit of their own with rope and shears and books and rings. We have to set "this kit comes with all these things, take it or leave it"

This app has great potential, and its existing features already perform well. However, there are two critical issues holding it back:

1. It currently doesn’t support integration with Facebook and Google sales channels, which is absolutely essential for e-commerce nowadays. You promised to implement this "soon" in early 2024, we're now in the second half of 2025 and still nothing.

2. When a bundled product is ordered, only the individual components are visible in the backend, the original bundle itself is missing from Shopify’s own packing slips, no invoicing apps can see it, and no third-party shipping or fulfilment services can see it. This creates significant confusion and inefficiency. Passing on the original bundle product information is vital for seamless operations.

Please address these issues, and you’ll definitely earn a 5-star rating!

It works well on my site but i recently started running google ads so all of these bundled gift sets I have created are useless but were curated for seo and ads. Works okay in a very limited capacity

While it's a free app, it should be as it's virtually useless. The limit for products is way too low, and the the bundle functionality doesn't actually work - it just line lists out skus that make up the bundle with individual pricing. I'm not sure what the point of this app is, but go elsewhere.

It is fine for basic use if you have less than about 35 bundles. They really need to add a feature for updating the price when a constituent product price changes. If you have a small store and are starting out, it will work. Also noticing every 2-3 months some bundles are randomly set to draft, so you have to check often.

Ok now things seem to be better. After a terrible start, Shopify Bundles Team seems to have fixed the problem.

We've been loosely monitoring the volumes reported in the bundle products and comparing them to the least available product in the bundle and it seems to be stable indeed. Haven't checked all the inventory either.

I won't claim victory immediately, as we previously had the impression the bundles were OK, but were not.

Nonetheless, I'll gladly admit Shopify took the problem seriously and did what needed to be done. Well done. Thanks.

Bundles that I've created, were initially working, suddenly without any apparent triggers begin showing 0 inventory/ availability, even though their constituent products are all in stock. If I go and edit the bundle, by removing a product, saving, and then re-adding the same product, and re-saving, then suddenly it shows the inventory again. It's always been doing this randomly since I installed it I noticed, but now, having been to busy to check in the last few months, I just discovered it was the case with all of the bundles in my shop. The impact being that these last months, no one could buy these products from us online.

If you create a bundle and later on adjust the pricing of the one of the items in the bundle, the total price of the bundle does not change and remains the same. How is it even possible that they did not think about updating the price of the bundle listing if an item in the bundle changes in price?

When you create a bundle, it sets the price based on the chosen products.
There needs to be a feature for when an underlying product has their price changed, the bundle can also be updated with a one click button, or a toggle to allow this. Having to manually update pricing for these is incredibly cumbersome.

The fact that it is free, is amazing and it starting to become very important to stock control as I have some items that have 9 or 10 different customers
but can something be done about the Packing Slip, why should the customer see what the contents of their order has in it - they should just see the Bundle Product name - not everything else