Implications of the Meta Sale Channels: Facebook and Instagram
This article applies to Simple Bundles 1.0. If you're using Simple Bundles 2.0, refer to How do I sell bundles on my sales channels?.
Meta removed in-app checkout from Facebook and Instagram Shops in 2025. Shoppers who find your bundles on Facebook or Instagram now check out on your online store, so Simple Bundles 1.0 handles those orders like any other online store order. This article explains what that means for your bundles and how older Meta checkout orders were handled.
How does Simple Bundles handle orders from Facebook and Instagram now?
Because checkout now happens on your online store, Simple Bundles can edit these orders to add bundle items, the same way it does for your other online store orders. You don't need any special settings for Facebook and Instagram.
To sell a bundle on Facebook and Instagram, publish the bundle product to the Facebook & Instagram sales channel in Shopify. In the product's Publishing section, click ⋮ > Manage sales channels and select the channel.
What about orders placed with Meta in-app checkout?
Orders placed through Meta's in-app checkout before it was removed couldn't be edited by apps. For those orders, Simple Bundles couldn't add bundle items to the original order. Instead, it could create an associated order (marked with an "A" after the order number) that holds the bundle items. Associated orders don't send a receipt to the customer.
If you process a refund or return for one of these older orders, do it on the original order, not the associated order.
How do I handle orders that can't be edited on other channels?
Some other sales channels and apps still create orders that Shopify won't let Simple Bundles edit. You have two options in Preferences > Orders, under Bundle orders:
- Associated orders: Select Enable order editing, then check Enable creation of a new associate order if the Shopify order can't be edited. This option is off by default for stores that installed on or after June 19, 2026. Associated orders copy the customer's details, so the app needs permission to read customer data. If associated orders aren't being created after you turn this on, contact our team.
- Single-SKU: Select Enable single-SKU inventory sync. Simple Bundles doesn't edit orders and only updates inventory for the bundle items. You can still show bundle items on packing slips if you're on the Plus or Advanced plan.
Click Save after changing either setting.
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