Learn how to use bundle options
1. Introduction
With bundles, you can offer your customers a seamless booking experience for multiple products in the same booking. Bundle options can be seen as more advanced add-on products that are either mandatory or optional. You can control the date, time, quantity, and price of your bundle options.
In this article, we will go through bundle settings and examples of setups.
2. How does Bundles Work?
A bundle option is created from a main product and is an additional choice your customers need to make when booking a main product.
A main product can have several bundle options, and a bundle option can consist of several products.
In the example above, the main product is "Activity with Accommodation and Dinner." Bundle Option 1 consists of four main products where you can choose between four different accommodations. Bundle Option 2 consists of four add-on products up to the same quantity as the main product.
In addition to bundle options, you can also have regular add-on products linked to the main product, which are booked when the main product and bundle options are added to the booking and the customer moves on to the next step.
3. How to Create a Bundle Option
When creating a bundle, the main product whose settings you are working on is the product that the customer will see first when booking.
If you are linking a bundle option, we recommend making the main product "active for admin" while you create the bundle option, or alternatively, copying the main product, making the copy "active for admin," and creating the bundle options in that product. This way, you can set everything up without customers experiencing temporary changes in the booking experience.
If the product is to be bookable as a bundle, such as a "Bike Bundle" or "Activity with Accommodation & Dinner," you need to create such a main product. The main product's booking length should cover the entire length of the bundle (e.g., 3 days). You can then link bundle options where the customer can choose accommodation, activities, and/or meals.
4. Bundle Option Settings
When you create all the products to be included in the bundle option, go to the main product's settings > Add-Ons & Bundles > Add Bundle Option. There you will find all the settings for the bundle option.
Name: The name of the bundle option appears to the customer as a heading for the choice. The name can be something simple like "Return Trip" or "Choose Your Return Trip." If the bundle is optional, you can also phrase it as "Do you want to book a return trip?"
Description: This description is displayed under the name of the bundle option where you can inform about the choice, such as noting special dietary requirements in the next step when booking the dinner bundle option.
Allow Selection Among Multiple Products: Activate this if you want customers to choose between multiple products, such as meals (add-on products). Remember that it is not possible to combine main & add-on products in the same bundle option.
Date: Here you can choose whether the customer should select the date for the bundle option or if the date is predetermined.
Start Time: Here you can choose whether the start time is predetermined or if the customer should select the start time themselves.
Remember that the products in the bundle option must have a scheduled start time at the main product's start time or at the predetermined start time in order to be able to book.
Booking Length: Choose whether the bundle option should have the same booking length as the main product or if it is predetermined.
Quantity: Here you can choose whether the bundle option is mandatory for everyone who booked the main product, if the bundle option is optional, or if the customer can choose the quantity of the bundle option themselves.
Price Category: Here you can choose whether customers should be able to select the price category or if it should be the same selected price categories as the main product.
Price: You can choose whether the price of the product in the bundle option should change as part of the bundle. For example, if you adjust the price by 50%, the price for the product in the bundle option will cost half as much as the product's own price settings. You can also set a flat rate for the bundle option.
Show Price for Product in Bundle: If you have chosen not to allow the selection of price category, you can hide the prices for the products in the bundle option. If you hide this, the price for the product will be included in the main product. However, the price & VAT rate for each product will always be visible on the receipt.
Activate Bundle Option: Finally, you need to activate the bundle option to make it visible to customers.
Remember that all products included in the bundle option need to be active (for customer and/or admin) and bookable during the dates/start times you set for the bundle option to be visible.
5. Examples of Bundle Setups
Here are some examples of how you can use bundle options.
Example 1: Round-Trip with Selectable Dates
This bundle allows customers to freely choose the dates and start times for the return trip. As it is mandatory for everyone in the booking to book the return trip (it is mandatory), it automatically adapts to the main product's quantity.
Since the bundle option does not allow the selection of price category, the main product's price categories are automatically assigned, which in this case means that 2 adults and 2 children are also booked for the return trip.
Example 2: Bundle with Dinner Option
This bundle option consists of only add-on products. Since the dinner takes place in conjunction with the hike, times, dates, and booking lengths are the same as for the main product. However, customers should be able to freely choose the quantity. In this case, a maximum of one product in the bundle option can be booked per booked main product.
Example 3: Cabin with Optional Cleaning Service
In this example, all dates, start times, and quantities are the same as the main product. The add-on product is selectable as yes/no, where the price is shown to inform the customer of the cleaning service price.
Example 4: Bike with Included Add-Ons
In this example, the price includes the same number of add-on products as the booked main product (2), making the add-ons mandatory. In these cases, two bundle options are needed. When you have two bundle options in this way, the names of the options are not shown, but the text "The bundle includes" is displayed automatically.
6. Good to Know's
For the bundle options to be bookable for the customer, all products must have the status "Active for customer and administrator." If you do not want the products in the bundle options to be bookable outside the packages, you need to create new widgets where these products are excluded.
Now you know everything about setting up bundles! 🙌🏻