Product bundling and booklist plug-in Documentation
Overview: Do you have a business that lends itself to the creation of customizable lists, kits or product bundles? Imagine back-to-school lists for specific grades at specific schools - with built-in functionality so parents can decrease or increase quantities. Or, as in the demo, perhaps you have an outdoor business and you want to help new campers or advanced rock climbers buy from a pre-defined list.
This plugin can increase your average order value whilst making it super-easy for defined types of customers to buy what they need (and more) from you. The extra value this plugin adds is the ability to assist your ERP with extracting the correct SKU’s. Without it, the SKUs of the linked products in the bundle are only added to the cart as text, so your ERP can’t recognize them. This plugin adds the SKUs of the linked products into the cart individually, so your ERP can use the data for fulfillment and inventory purposes.
Features:
The merchant can set up bundles, booklists or product kits with lists of products linked to that bundle
The customer can include or exclude linked products from a pre-defined list of linked products according to their needs. The bundle price then automatically updates.
The customer can change the pre-set quantities of the linked products, which also automatically changes the bundle price.
The plugin allows for prices to be adjusted, so customers get products at a special price if they are purchased as part of a bundle.
There are two big features found nowhere else:
When the bundle is added to a shopping cart, standard versions add the bundle SKU but the individual product SKUs are only added to the cart as text – and an ERP (or other systems) cannot use text. This plugin instead adds the SKUs of the individual products in the bundle to the cart, so your ERP and accounting or inventory integrations can automatically pull this SKU information.
This plugin makes it possible for the merchant to duplicate individual products in different bundles. So the sleeping bag you have in the Camping Starter Kit can be used in the Rock Climbing Starter Kit too.
Creating product bundles manually can be time consuming. An important feature here is that this plugin allows the merchant to create bundles or booklists in a spreadsheet, and then upload the spreadsheet to NopCommerce. This saves a lot of time and effort, especially if you have long lists.
This plugin is very popular with customers who want to create booklists or stationery kits and who integrate their e-commerce site to their ERP.
Live Demo: To see how the Product Bundling and Booklist Plug-in works on the front end, please go here:
More info: When the Product Bundling and Booklist Plug-in has been installed, you will need to add your licence key in order for it to work correctly. The plug-in is active immediately you add your licence key. To deactivate the plug-in, you will need to uninstall it.
Once your licence key has been added, use the products screen in the admin panel to create your grouped product.
Locations – Website Admin Panel
Go to your product details page in the admin panel and add your product attribute (this would be the individual products you would like to link in your bundle) with the control type checkbox
Click on Edit your attribute values to add and link your linked products . Use the associated product option when creating the attribute value.
Set the default quantities of the attribute value you are creating as you would like them to appear in the group.
You can either pre-select the attribute value which will then show the customer your specified quantities or you can leave the attribute value unselected which will allow the customer to set the quantities.
You can also adjust the price of the attribute via the price adjustment field.
Locations – Front End
This will display automatically on all product pages that have associated product attributes, as long as they have been set up and configured as above.
