Introduction to Product Bundling
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🕒 Time to complete: Around 25 minutes
What is Product Bundling?
Product bundling is a strategy used to group individual products into a single combined offering, commonly referred to as sets or kits. In Craftybase, bundling allows you to track the production and inventory of bundled items efficiently by using components.
Creating a Bundle Structure
To create a bundle in Craftybase, you’ll first need to structure your setup using components. Components allow you to manage the manufacturing of individual items within a bundle and treat them like materials in your recipes.
Let’s say you sell soaps individually (Lavender, Rosemary, and Rose) and also as a combined set called Garden Scents.
Create components for each item - Start by creating each soap as a component:
- Lavender Soap
- Rosemary Soap
Rose Soap
Each component should have its own recipe listing the raw materials used in its production (e.g., coconut oil, shea butter, essential oils).
When you manufacture the soap, you’ll be creating component stock, not a finished product. These components can then be used as materials in other product recipes.
Create Products - Next, create your actual sellable products. You may already have these in place if you're connected to an integration (like Shopify or Etsy):
- Lavender Soap
- Rosemary Soap
- Rose Soap
- Garden Scents Set
Link Components in Product Recipes - Now, update your product recipes to reference the relevant components. This is how Craftybase knows to reduce component stock when a product is manufactured. Using our example above:
- The Lavender Soap product recipe should contain the Lavender Soap component.
The Garden Scents Set recipe should include the Lavender, Rosemary, and Rose Soap components.
Creating Your Bundle Workflow
With your structure in place, here’s how your workflow looks:
- Manufacture your components - This increases component stock and consumes the materials used in the recipe.
- Manufacture the finished product - This consumes component stock and increases your sellable product stock.
To streamline this process, you can automate manufacturing steps:
- Enable auto-manufacture on the product to automatically create a manufacture when an order is added.
- Enable component auto-manufacture within each product recipe so Craftybase also creates a manufacture for the required components.
With both auto-manufacture settings enabled, Craftybase will automatically generate the necessary component and product manufactures as soon as an order is imported or created. This ensures your stock stays up to date with minimal manual input.
FAQ
What is the best plan for kits and bundling?
If you plan to manage kits or bundles, the Indie plan is the best fit — it offers full support for recipe-based products, component tracking, and more complex bundling workflows.
The Studio plan can also work well for simpler setups that don’t require nested components or multi-level component manufacturing.
Need Help?
If you have any questions about setting up or optimizing your bundle workflow, please get in touch, and we'll be happy to help.