Kitting and bundling in Flxpoint enables you to combine multiple products into one, creating dynamic product bundles with ease. This feature allows you to:
- Combine multiple product variants into a single product.
- Create multi-quantity variants from a single product.
- Support variation structures for dynamic bundling
Important: Bundles use virtual products as components, ensuring dynamic management and availability across orders.
Creating a Bundle
Creating a bundle in Flxpoint involves grouping multiple products from your catalog into a single offering, allowing you to sell them together as one unit. This helps streamline inventory management and boost sales by offering product combinations.
Create a Bundle:
Switch to the Variants view under the Product Catalog tab (Flxpoint App → Products → Product Catalog → Actions).
Select the Bundle Generation Tool option to create a bundle from the products already listed in your catalog.
The SKU and title represent the parent SKU and parent title.
Next, you will configure two key elements:
Options: These represent the overall selections of the bundle. For example, "Game" and "Game System" would be options.
Components: These are the specific selections for each option. For instance, an "Xbox" or "PS4" might represent the components for the "Game System" option, while "Minecraft" and "Mario" would be the components for the "Game" option.
After configuring options and components, you can preview the variants.
The SKU and title for each variant will be automatically generated based on the parent SKU and title, but you can manually adjust them if needed.
Dimensions - Weight Calculations
Weight calculations will be available when all component variants have a weight unit, and the weight isn't being pulled through the Bulk Bundle Product mapping template.
Example:
If component 1 is "0.3 lbs" and component 2 is "0.5 lbs", the variant’s total weight will be 0.8 lbs.
Creating Bundles via Product Creation
In Flxpoint, you can combine multiple products into one by selecting items from your catalog and bundling them together. This process allows you to manage options, components, and pricing, creating a single bundle product for your store.
You can also create bundles during the Product Creation process:
- Go to Create Product (Flxpoint App → Products → Product Catalog → Actions → Other → Create Product).
- Set up the Parent Product and define variants with their respective components.
After setup, you can manage variants by adding options, titles, dimensions, and components.
After clicking to create a new Variant, you'll set up your Title, Identifiers, Options, Dimensions, and you can add in your Component. You may go back into this to edit at any point after you Create Variant.
After going back to the Parent Product, it can be seen that the Parent Product now has the additional Option Values that were included on each Variant. This will help differentiate the combinations within the bundle.
Import Bundles
Import Bundles allow you to upload and create multiple product bundles at once in Flxpoint. By using a bulk import process, you can efficiently manage and configure your bundles with options, components, and pricing, saving time on manual setup.
Create bundles quickly by importing the data from a file into Flxpoint. To import bundles, first go to the Product Catalog tab (Flxpoint App → Products → Product Catalog).
A screen like this will be shown:
To run the Bundle Upload, you will need to create a mapping template to appropriately map the data from the file. This can be done by either clicking "Create New Mapping Template" under the Template field or by going to Account Settings → Mapping → Templates → Bulk Upload → Product Bundles.
Bulk Bundle Upload CSV/XLSX Sample: For a recommended file structure to replicate, you can view/download a sample file here.
In the Mapping Template, there are 3 main sections you'll want to ensure are mapped:
- To Product Parent Field - Map parent product data. The only required field is Parent SKU, which must be either a new Parent SKU or must match an existing Bundle Product Parent.
- To Product Variant Field - Map variant product data. The only required field is Variant SKU, which must be a new Variant SKU.
- Bundle Components - Map the options and components. The component SKU(s) must match an existing (non-bundle) Product Variant.
Once the mapping template is created, you will:
- Select the mapping template
- Upload the file
- Configure file import settings as needed
- Click "Run Product Bundle Upload"
After the file has been processed, you will find the bundle(s) in the Product Catalog, and a notification with the processing details will be provided.
Ordering Bundled Items
Ordering Bundled Items allows customers to purchase multiple products grouped together as a single bundle. When a bundle is ordered, the individual items within the bundle are automatically processed, ensuring that all components are fulfilled and shipped accordingly. This streamlines the ordering process for bundled products.
When an order is placed for a bundled item, there are a few considerations to keep in mind:
- The bundled item will appear on the order to associate it with the sales channel's order.
- The components of the bundled item will also be displayed below.
- When generating Fulfillment Requests/Fulfillment Orders (FR/FOs), the bundled item uses the component SKUs to find associated source variants and FR/FOs.
Shipments provided by the source fulfilling the fulfillment request/orders will use the component SKUs. Once a bundled item has been fully shipped, this information will be passed back to the channel.