Managing bundles

Bundle status lifecycle

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Every bundle has a status that controls whether it appears on your storefront and whether the discount applies at checkout.

#The five statuses

#DRAFT

A bundle in DRAFT is not visible to shoppers. The widget does not appear on product pages and the discount does not apply.

Use DRAFT while you're building a bundle, or to prepare bundles before you're ready to activate them.

#ACTIVE

An ACTIVE bundle is live. The widget appears on product pages and the discount applies at checkout for any shopper who adds the bundle to their cart.

#PAUSED

A PAUSED bundle is temporarily hidden. The widget disappears and the discount no longer applies, but all configuration is preserved.

To resume a bundle you paused yourself, switch it back to ACTIVE.

The app also pauses ACTIVE bundles automatically when a required component sells out, and resumes them when stock returns. It only resumes bundles it paused itself. Bundles you paused by hand are never auto-resumed. If a product is deleted from your Shopify store, any ACTIVE or SCHEDULED bundle containing it is paused immediately and will not auto-resume. See Stock and automatic pause for details.

Use PAUSED to take a bundle offline temporarily without deleting it.

#ARCHIVED

ARCHIVED bundles are removed from the storefront permanently (until you un-archive them). Analytics history is preserved.

Use ARCHIVED when a bundle has run its course and you want to keep the data but not the promotion.

#SCHEDULED

A SCHEDULED bundle has a future start date. A background check activates it when that date arrives, based on your shop's timezone. An end date is optional. If set, the bundle moves to PAUSED when the end date passes.

#Moving between statuses

#From the bundle list

Find the bundle in the Bundles table.
Click the status badge (for example Active) on that row. It has a small arrow.
A menu lists Draft, Active, Scheduled, Paused and Archived. Click the one you want.

A Confirm Status Change dialog appears. For Scheduled, it includes a two-month calendar: click a start date, then optionally an end date, or type them in the boxes above.

Confirm Status Change dialog with start and end dates for a scheduled bundle

Click Confirm.

#From the edit page

The status menu sits at the top right of the bundle editor. Pick a status there, then click Save (Update on an existing bundle).

A new bundle's menu offers Draft, Active and Scheduled. Paused and Archived appear once the bundle is saved.

While a saved bundle isn't active, a banner under the header says so. On a draft or paused bundle it says the bundle is hidden from your store, with Set to Active. On an archived bundle it says the bundle won't show. On a scheduled bundle it gives the date it goes live.

At the top of an existing bundle, Duplicate makes a copy (it asks first, and warns that unsaved changes will be lost), and Create new starts a new bundle.

#Bulk status changes

On the bundle list, tick the bundles you want. The table header turns into an action bar. With one bundle ticked it has Edit and Set as draft or Set as active; with several, Set as active and Set as draft. The ... menu has delete. See The bundle list.

Bundle list with a bundle ticked and the action bar in the table header

#Status and Shopify product sync

When you activate a bundle created with Bundle as Product enabled, the corresponding Shopify product is published to your sales channels. When you pause, archive or move it back to draft, the Shopify product is unpublished.

#Verifying a scheduled bundle

After setting a bundle to SCHEDULED:

Note the start date. A background check runs at regular intervals and activates bundles whose start date has arrived in your shop's timezone.
On or after the start date, check the bundle's status in the list. It should show ACTIVE.
Visit the product page on your storefront to confirm the widget renders.
If the bundle shows ACTIVE but the discount isn't applying at checkout, run a manual sync from the Tools in Settings (see General settings and tools).