Whether it's a simple cheeseburger, a gift basket, or any other product you have comprising of other products in your catalog, Bundles are here to help and ensure that the accurate quantities are deducted automatically.
Having a product, such as an ingredient, that shows up in many other products is very common. Bundles are great for accurately tracking ingredients/components and knowing when to reorder more.
For example, when a bundle is sold, Thrive automatically calculates and deducts the required inventory, ensuring that all components are accounted for and inventory numbers remain accurate.
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In this example, how you can use Bundles to create a cheeseburger!
Understanding Bundle Components
Before creating a bundle (like a cheeseburger), you need to have all the individual ingredients already set up as products in Thrive. Then you'll link them together!
Why this matters: Bundles track inventory at the ingredient level. When you sell one cheeseburger, Thrive automatically deducts the bun, beef, cheese, etc.
Step 1: Create Components/Ingredients
Before you create a Bundle, you must first create the components/ingredients of the Bundle as products (or variants) in Thrive.
Important Setup Notes:
Partial quantities are supported: Thrive supports partial quantities on inventory. For example, you can put 0.758 of a product into inventory if that's what you have.
SKUs and Barcodes are optional: You don't need to add these for ingredients if you're not scanning them individually.
Prices can be zero: If you're not selling the component by itself (just as part of bundles), you can set the price to zero.
Set costs accurately: Setting your components' costs (per unit) will allow you to track your margins on Bundled products accurately.
Pro Tip: Include measurement units in names: We recommend indicating the measurement unit you'll use in the variant name. This will make it easier to build your bundles!
Creating Component Products
For each ingredient:
Go to the Products page
Click Create Product
In the Edit Products Page enter the Product Name with unit measurement (e.g., "Hamburger Buns - 6 pack")
In the Locations tab, fill in:
Cost: What you paid per unit
Quantity: How many you have in stock
Creating the Bundle
Step 1: Create the product
Go to the Products page
Click Create Product
In the Product Details tab, enter the Product Name: "Cheeseburger"
Add any description, images, or other details
Step 2: Convert to Bundle
Go to the Variants & Defaults section
Click the gear wheel icon
Select Convert to Bundle
Note: You might need to side-scroll in that section to expose the clickable gear wheel.
Step 3: Add components
In the bundle configuration screen, you'll be prompted to select the components of the Bundle
Select your first ingredient (e.g., "Hamburger Buns - 6 pack")
Enter the input quantity needed for one cheeseburger (e.g., 0.167 for 1 bun from a 6-pack)
Add the rest of your ingredients with their calculated quantities
Click Update & Save
Done! Now each time you sell a cheeseburger, all the linked components will be accurately deducted, and your profit will be accurately calculated.
Pro Tip
Having trouble figuring out what to put in the "input quantity" section?
We've got you covered in our Math for Assemblies, Bundles, and Modifiers article!
Managing Inventory Quantities for Bundles
The availability of product bundles in Thrive is calculated based on the number of individual components available in inventory. Thrive uses the following approach to determine bundle availability:
Assess the stock levels of each component.
Identify the required quantity of each component for a bundle.
Determine the total number of bundles that can be created with the current inventory.
For example, if a bundle requires 28 units of an item and you have 40 units in stock, Thrive will allow the creation of one bundle. To create two bundles, you'd need at least 56 units in stock.
The limiting ingredient: Your bundle availability is limited by whichever ingredient you have the least of. If you have 100 buns but only 10 patties, you can only make 10 cheeseburgers!
Tips for Maintaining Accurate Inventory
Regularly audit inventory levels to ensure the availability of all required bundle components.
Utilize Thrive’s reporting tools to monitor sales and manage inventory usage.
Clearly define measurement units and required quantities for each bundle to minimize errors and discrepancies.
If your inventory consists of recipes, bills of material, or customization, check out our Assemblies, Bundles, & Modifiers article to ensure you're using the best tool.
For example, Assemblies are perfect if you premake your secret sauce.