How to create product bundles in WooCommerce

Decide whether customers should buy a fixed package or choose its contents. A fixed package needs controlled quantities, a bundle price and component-level stock. A build-your-own kit needs required or optional components, product variations and rules that prevent incompatible selections.

For a simple collection where customers can choose the quantity of each item, WooCommerce’s built-in Grouped product type may be enough. Grouped products display several existing products on one page, but the items remain separate purchases.

Create each item in the bundle as its own WooCommerce product before creating the bundle. Set its name, description, price, SKU, image and stock settings. Use variable products when customers must choose a size, colour or other variation.

Check that every component has a valid price. A common failure is adding products with blank prices, which prevents them from being purchased in a bundle or composite.

Go to Products > Add New, enter the collection title and description, then choose Grouped product in the Product data selector. Add the existing products to the group, publish it and view the product page as a customer.

In newer WooCommerce product editing screens, grouped products may be created from WooCommerce > Home > Add Products. This manual route is fine for a shop that only needs several related products shown together. It is not suitable when you need one fixed bundle price, locked quantities, customer configuration or a single bundle SKU.

Use a bundle extension when the grouped-product limitations matter. Install the extension from Plugins > Add New or upload its ZIP file, activate it, and confirm that it adds a bundle or composite product type to the Product data selector.

For a configurable kit, WooCommerce Composite Products lets you create components and add existing simple products, variable products or product bundles as component options.

Create the new bundle product, choose the extension’s bundle or composite type, then add each component. For every component, decide whether it is required or optional, set minimum and maximum quantities, and restrict the available products or categories where needed.

Choose whether the bundle has a base price, whether component prices are preserved, and whether a discount applies. For a configurable product, mark components as individually priced when the selected products should determine the total. Leave the base price empty only when the extension’s documentation confirms that the component prices will supply the whole total.

Make sure stock is managed on the actual component products, not only on the parent bundle, when the same items are also sold separately. Choose whether the contents ship as one assembled product or as separate items, then review tax and shipping behaviour.

Test the product while logged out: select each required option, try an unavailable component, change quantities, add the bundle to the cart and place a test order. Confirm that the order shows the parent bundle and its child items, stock is reduced from the correct components, and refunds do not leave inventory out of sync. Composite and bundle products commonly appear in the cart and order as a parent line with child component lines.

If the job is a build-your-own kit rather than a simple product collection, WooCommerce Composite Products is the quicker route. Create the component products first, select Composite product, add components and their options, then configure pricing, quantities, optional parts, layout and shipping from the product editor.

It is a good fit for kits where each component needs its own inventory, variation choices, pricing or shipping behaviour. If the contents are completely fixed, a simpler bundle extension may be more appropriate; if customers only need to buy related products separately, the built-in Grouped product type is enough.