Volume bundles

A volume bundle is "2 for less than twice the price of 1": a ladder of quantity discounts on the same product, shown as a picker on the product page.

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The important part: the price follows the basket, not the button

This is the biggest difference from how most sellers picture it, and it decides everything else.

Pressing "Buy 2" is not buying a fixed pack. The button is only an intent: it puts 2 items in the basket. The price is then re-derived from scratch, from the total quantity of that product in the basket, every time the basket is read.

With a 1 / 2 / 3 ladder:

What the customer does	The basket holds	What is charged
Presses "Buy 2"	2	One Buy 2 pack
Presses "Buy 1" twice	2	Also one Buy 2 pack
Presses "Buy 2" then adds 1	3	One Buy 3 pack
Presses "Buy 3" then adds 1	4	Buy 3 + 1 at list price
Changes the quantity from 4 to 2	2	Back to Buy 2

What follows from that:

• Customers are not punished for pressing the wrong button. Pressing "Buy 1" four times still gets the good price.
• Each item in a bundle is an ordinary line in the basket — with its own ± and remove buttons, editable, and editing it re-derives the tiers.
• Packing is largest-first: 5 items on a 1/2/3 ladder becomes Buy 3 + Buy 2, not Buy 2 + Buy 2 + 1.

The ladder must increase. Because packing is largest-first, a larger tier that discounts less makes the customer pay more than if that tier did not exist. The editor warns you when a ladder does not increase — do not ignore it.

Gaps are worth noticing too: with tiers at 3 and 5 (no 4), a customer buying 4 is charged Buy 3 + 1 at list, and gets nothing extra for the fourth.

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Creating a bundle

Heading shown to buyers — the title on the bundle card on the product page.

Applies to — three choices:

	Meaning
All products	Every product in the store gets this bundle
Specific collections	Only products in the collections you pick
Specific products	Only the products you pick

Opens selected — which tier is preselected when a customer opens the page. This is the tier they buy if they change nothing, so most stores pick a middle one: the top tier looks greedy, the bottom tier wastes the opportunity.

Quantity tiers

Each tier has:

Field	Meaning
Qty	The quantity for this tier
% off	How much off each item at this tier
Highlight badge	A corner ribbon
Free ship	This tier ships free
Option label	The large text on the row — Buy 2
Caption	The small text beneath — Save 10% per item
Benefit badge	A small pill beside the large text — Most popular
Saving shown as	Percentage off · Amount off · Hidden

Saving shown as only changes the wording, never the money: the same discount can read 10% OFF, or $4.80 OFF, or nothing at all. Choosing Hidden for the 1-item tier (which has nothing to boast about) is the normal thing to do.

Behaviour

Variant selectors — on a multi-variant product, each item in the bundle gets its own picker, so a customer buying 3 can take 3 different sizes. For clothing this should almost always be on; for a single-variant product it is unnecessary.

Variant selectors on a single item — shows the picker on the 1-item tier too, which otherwise simply reuses the choice made on the product page.

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The preview is real

The panel on the right is not a mock-up. It is built from the same component the storefront uses, with the real variant prices of whichever product you choose in Preview with. Change a field on the left and you see it on the right before saving anything.

The panel says so itself: "Prices are this product's live variant prices with the tier discount applied. The buttons are inert here." — the buttons do nothing in the preview.

Pick a different product in Preview with to check the ladder at another price point.

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How it interacts with other things

With an ordinary "Add to cart" — there is a store-level switch deciding whether items added the ordinary way count towards the bundle tiers. The default is no: switch it on and every open basket is re-priced at that moment, with nothing telling you it has just happened.

With discount codes — a bundle discounts at the line level, and a discount code applies to the total after that. The two do stack.

With personalised products — a personalised item is never pooled into a bundle. Each one is unique, so packing them together would mean nothing.

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Reference

Where	Control	Notes
List	New bundle	Creates a bundle
List	Press a row	Opens it for editing
Editor	Enabled	Off stops it, keeping the configuration
Editor	Heading shown to buyers	The bundle card's title
Editor	Applies to	All · Specific collections · Specific products
Editor	Opens selected	The preselected tier — what they buy if they change nothing
Editor	Variant selectors	A variant picker per item
Tier	Qty / % off	The quantity and the discount
Tier	Free ship	Free delivery at this tier
Tier	Option label / Caption / Benefit badge	The wording customers see
Tier	Saving shown as	Percentage · Amount · Hidden. Wording only
Preview	Preview with	The product used to price the preview

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Next: Product customizer — letting customers add a name, pick a colour, choose an image.