A Bundle is a new entry in your inventory comprised of existing products or variants.

​Think of it like a recipe for a dish comprised of multiple ingredients, or a buy-one-get-one-free deal with two products included. Bundles automatically deduct the right quantities from your component inventory!

Any product or variant can be converted into a Bundle.

Making a product a Bundle will allow you to select the "components." A Bundle can have one component or many components.

Here are just a few things you can accomplish with Bundles:

Take ingredients from your catalog and combine them into something your customers want. We'll walk you through an example of how you can create a cheeseburger product. When it sells, the ingredients will be accurately pulled from your inventory.

Do you receive products from your vendor in cases and also want to sell them as individual units (or singles)? Or do you receive singles and sell them as cases?

Either way, we've got you covered.

Suppose I sell wine by the bottle and by the glass. With a Bundle, I can ensure the inventory always comes out of the same place.

For mixed drinks, we'll create a Bundle composed of multiple items; simply add the components one by one.

Save time by accurately tracking sales commissions using Bundles. With Bundles, it's easy to see who sold how much of what is on our Product Sales Report.

Let’s say we’re selling a water bottle and want a price for customers and a discounted one for employees. Use Bundles to make this distinction easy and ensure everyone gets charged the correct price at checkout.

Use these steps when working with the old catalog experience.

Alternatively, you can add a new variant if necessary to an existing product.

Note:

Done! Your bundle is complete. Each time it sells, Thrive will automatically deduct the specified quantities from all components.

The bundle editor on this page accepts up to 3 decimal places in the "Quantity used in each bundle" box. Type a fourth and the field refuses the value.

The new catalog experience takes up to 10 decimal places in the same box, and keeps all ten. If you need finer amounts than thousandths — a pour measured as 1 ÷ 24 of a bottle, say — the new experience editor is the one to use.

The setting under Settings > Inventory controls how many decimal places Thrive displays. It does not limit what the bundle editor accepts.

Even at ten places, a repeating fraction is close but not exact. A case of 24 entered as 1 ÷ 24 ≈ 0.0416666667 works out to approximately 23.99999998 bundles, and the count always rounds down, so a full case reads 23. Where the division comes out even (halves, quarters, tenths) there is no error at all.

Thrive works out a bundle's calculated stock quantity for each location on its own, and you can never type it in. For every component it takes that component's stock at the location, divides by how much of it one bundle uses, and rounds down to a whole bundle. The bundle's calculated stock quantity is the smallest of those results — the component you would run out of first.

An example at one location: a gift basket uses 2 jars and 1 card. You have 9 jars and 4 cards. The jars allow 9 ÷ 2 = 4 baskets (rounded down from 4.5) and the cards allow 4, so the basket reads 4.

Four things behave differently from a plain "smallest of the components":

The calculation runs in the background whenever a component's stock moves, so changes may not appear immediately.

When Thrive records a bundle sale, the deduction from a tracked component can take its stock below zero. This describes Thrive's stock updates after the sale — by then the sale is already recorded or imported, and what happens at the till is up to that sales channel. Components with inventory tracking switched off, and components that are not set up at the location, are handled differently.

What you are left with: the component is negative, and because any component at or below zero forces the bundle to 0, the bundle reads 0 until the component is put right. Receive it, adjust it, or transfer some in, and its calculated quantity becomes positive once every counted component has enough stock for a whole bundle.

To edit a bundle, you'll go to the bundle composition screen in either experience.

To change your Bundle back to a regular product, remove all components and save. Please note, by making the change you'll lose the bundle-specific inventory history, download any needed reports first!

The Bundle Report shows all the current Bundles, their components, and the amount that will be deducted for each sale. Perfect for Reviewing your bundle configurations and ensuring component quantities used are correct.

The Product Sales Report will show the sale of the Bundle. Components deducted because of the sale will not show up on this report. The cost shown will be automatically calculated based on the current lot cost of that Bundle's components at the time of sale.

The Vendor Sales Report will show the sale of the Bundle and which vendor was assigned to it.

Vendors assigned to components will not show on this report (much like the Product Sales Report). But you can assign multiple vendors to the Bundle if you want the sale to show under multiple vendors in the Vendor Sales Report.

The Inventory Change Report shows the change in the quantities of the components. Use the "Filters" button to filter out bundles or show only bundles.

The Inventory Report shows all non-bundled products and components. Only components appear on this report to ensure we aren't double-counting products in your inventory.

NOTE: If you plan to reverse your bundle/component setups, be aware that you will be essentially starting with a new set of inventory and inventory history for those products. We encourage you to download any relevant reports before making the switch.

Bundles are designated with a bundle icon within Thrive making them easy to identify at a glance.

Filter for bundles: Use the "Filters" button to "Show bundles only" in the Products Page.

Bundles appear on your POS like any other product. Employees select them just like regular items, and Thrive handles the component deductions automatically behind the scenes!