How Simple Bundles works with Freshly

This article applies to Simple Bundles 1.0. If you're using Simple Bundles 2.0, refer to How Simple Bundles 2.0 manages inventory for bundles and child products.

You can track the products inside your Simple Bundles 1.0 bundles by batch, lot, or expiry date with the Freshly Batch Inventory app. Create batches in Freshly for the products in your bundle, then build the bundle in Simple Bundles. On bundle orders, Freshly batch-tracks the bundled products, not the bundle product itself.

This works because Simple Bundles 1.0 adds each bundled product to the order as its own line item. Freshly assigns batches to those line items like any other product.

Set up batches in Freshly Batch Inventory

Install the Freshly Batch Inventory app from the Shopify App Store.
In Freshly, create batches for each product you plan to add to your bundle. You don't need batches for the bundle product.

Create the bundle in Simple Bundles

Choose an existing product as your bundle. See How to create your first bundle in Simple Bundles 1.0.
Add the products that make up your bundle. See Adding products to a bundle.
Click Save.

Bundle in Simple Bundles with the products to batch-track — Bundle with the products you want to batch-track

How do I see batches for bundle orders in Freshly?

In Freshly, go to Orders and open an order that contains a bundle. You'll see the bundle (not batch-tracked) and its products (batch-tracked).

Freshly order showing a bundle and its batch-tracked products — Bundle order in Freshly with batch-tracked products

To trace a product back to its batch, go to Inventory Batches and search for the batch name.
In the Orders column, click the View button (for example, View 3 orders) to see every order that used that batch.

Freshly Inventory batches tab with the View orders button for a batch — View the orders for a batch

Does Simple Bundles 2.0 handle this differently?

Yes. In Simple Bundles 2.0, Shopify's cart transform adds the component SKUs to the order at checkout, so Freshly batch-tracks the components directly. If cart transform can't run and the app falls back to order editing, the order looks like a 1.0 order. See How Simple Bundles 2.0 manages inventory for bundles and child products.

How to create your first bundle in Simple Bundles 1.0

Adding products to a bundle

How do line items get added to an order?

How Simple Bundles 2.0 manages inventory for bundles and child products