How to combine single items and kits under one product listing
Individual items and bundled kits—like gloves sold by the pair versus the dozen—often end up as separate listings. This forces shoppers to jump around between different pages instead of seeing all their purchasing options in one place.
Core Friction Pattern
Analysis of 4 peer accounts across online developer and community forums reveals that “How to combine single items and kits under one product listing” repeatedly surfaces due to edge-case mismatches between standard defaults and real-world environments. Standard troubleshooting frequently falls short, compelling practitioners to develop custom workarounds.
+4 alternative community-tested workarounds cataloged below.
What people tried
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How to combine single items and kits under one product listing
- 1Using the native Shopify Bundles appDid this help you?
- 2Creating item groups in NetSuite containing the bundled quantityDid this help you?
- 3Trying to mess with weightDid this help you?
- 4Using custom workflows to select supplier, set pack size, create PO, and order using supplier quantity.Did this help you?
- 5Looking for third-party Shopify apps like Packify to handle bidirectional inventory updates between cases and packsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“So I want an app or way so when someone buys a pack it subtracts from the case as well so for example.”source ↗
“If someone buys 10 packs I want the case to reduce to 9 and if I add ten packs I want the case to add to 11.”source ↗
“Trying to figure out how to combine products with kits. Like gloves we sell by pair (item) are separate from the same gloves we sell by dozen (kit)”source ↗
“I think can’t figure out how to get them under the same product. So when shoppers look for that glove they can see all their options without jumping around.”source ↗
“Shopify shipping LOVESSS to stick everything into first class that cannot be shipped as a flat.”source ↗
“Pins, washi tape, magnets, needle minders, ornaments etc -- things that are small but not totally flat, keep getting flagged for first class”source ↗
“The big thing I want to avoid is multiple shipping profiles for things because I don't want someone to pay $2 shipping for a card and then an additional $6 for washi tape... I want to make sure that everything can be combined.”source ↗
“This can become confusing when the same product is purchased in different quantities depending on the supplier.”source ↗
“For example, one supplier may sell 1 unit per pack while another sells 12. Without a supplier level pack size, it's hard to keep track of the ordered quantity”source ↗
Where this came up
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