QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerce


1. Getting Started

Hi, and welcome to the QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerce User Guide. The User Guide covers all the information needed to use the QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerce plugin with your theme to build an amazing eCommerce website.

If you need any additional assistance while using our plugin, you can always submit a topic to the support forum at wordpress.org/support/plugin/qode-product-bundles-for-woocommerce and our support team will be glad to help you out. You can also send us an email at [email protected]

You can navigate through different sections of the User Guide by clicking on the links in the menu to the left of your screen. You will also notice that we have highlighted certain parts of the text throughout the User Guide, such as important pieces of information and useful tips.

This user guide covers the full set of options that the plugin provides, including both its Free and Premium versions. 

The QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerce is a plugin designed to help you boost your conversion rates, create extra value deals and run cross-selling campaigns by combining two or more products for your customers in supremely practical product bundles.

The plugin is designed to work in tandem with the free WooCommerce plugin, so in order to ensure proper plugin functioning, please make sure you have installed and activated your copy of the WooCommerce plugin. 

Installing the QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerce plugin

First off, here's a list of minimum requirements as well as recommended hosting parameters for running QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerce plugin: 

Minimum Requirements

Recommended Hosting Parameters

There are two ways you can go about installing the QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerce plugin: 

Installing From Your WordPress Dashboard

  1. Navigate to your WordPress Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New
  2. Search for QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerce
  3. Install and Activate Qode Essential Addons from your Plugins page.

Installing Directly From wordpress.org

  1. Locate and download QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerce on wordpress.org
  2. Upload the qode-product-bundles-for-woocommerce directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your preferred method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
  3. Install and Activate QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerce from your Plugins page.

In the following sections of the User Guide you'll find a comprehensive overview of all the settings available in the plugin's QODE Plugins for WooCommerce section of your WordPress admin panel once you have installed and activated the QODE Product Bundles for WooCommerces plugin, as well as options found on product single pages when creating Bundles. 

2. Global

In the Global section of the plugin options you are presented with options for making general adjustments to the plugin funcionalities. 

To access these settings, simply navigate to Qode Plugins for WooCommerce > Product Bundles > Global.

Note that all the settings made here will affect the Product Bundle functionality on your website globally.

To adjust settiings for individual bundles, you should navigate to Products > Add New. Once you select Bundle product from the Product Data dropdown, you'll get presented with options relating to that specific bundle, overriding the global settings. More on that in a bit in the Creating Product Bundles section of this user guide. 

 

General

This is where you can choose a default layout for your product bundles. There are five layouts to choose from: standard, boxed, minimal, gallery, and accordion. 

In the event that you select the gallery layout, you can also choose between two and three columns for the gallery. 

Next up, you can enable the combo layout for bundles by default. If enabled, this displays a simplified list of all the items found in the bundle before the bundle products themselves. 

You also have the option to choose between four price views for bundle products on all shop pages.

You can display from min price, min price only, min-max price span, and regular & sale prices. Note that this option takes effect only if you set the Price Type option to Use prices of bundled items in the product single page settings.

Following this, you can configure how to handle bundle products which are currently out of stock. 

The out of stock products can be shown, but the users will not be able to purchase said products, you can display the out of stock notice for these products, or you can hide them altogether.

The option that follows lets you enable PhotoSwipe for bundled items. If enabled, once a product in a bundle is clicked on, a lightbox pop-up with the product image will get displayed instead of opening the product single page. 

Here you also have the option to enable a plugin-styled, predefined stylization for product bundle elements. 

 

Cart & Checkout

A set of options that follows allows you to configure bundled items on cart & checkout pages. 

First off you can choose between two layouts for bunde products on cart & checkout pages: standard & minimal.

After this, you can choose whether you wish to display bundle products alongside the main product on cart and checkout pages or not. 

In the event that you wish to hide bundle item prices from cart and checkout pages, you can do so here. 

Order & Reports Options

The final option found here lets you choose whether you wish to include bundled products in WooCommerce reports or not. 

3. Customization

This section provides you with a selection of options related to your bundles and their appearance. 

To access these settings, simply navigate to Qode Plugins for WooCommerce > Product Bundles > Customization.

Customization

First off, you can input a custom title text to be displayed before the list of bundled items, and you can set a heading tag for the title text as well. 

After this, you can choose which product items you wish to hide for your bundled products. You can hide product categories, ratings, prices, quantities, and descriptions if you choose so. 

Next up, you can input some custom text for a "add item to bundle" label. This label will be displayed for optional bundle products (products which are a part of the bundle but are not mandatory for purchase), and in the event that you set the individual bundlePrice Type in single product settings to Set a Fixed Price.

You can also input such custom label for optional bundle products for which the individual bundle Price Type in single product settings is set to Use prices of bundled items. 

The final option found here allows you to adjust the border color for bundled item lists.

 

4. Creating Product Bundles

To create your bundles you should navigate to Products > Add New.

 

Once you select Bundle product from the Product Data dropdown, you'll get presented with options relating to that specific bundle in the QODE - Bundle Product Options section found below, which override the global settings. 

QODE - Bundle Product Options

 

General Options

First off, you can choose a layout for this product bundle. There are five layouts to choose from: standard, boxed, minimal, gallery, and accordion. 

In the event that you select the gallery layout, you can also choose between two and three columns for the gallery. 

Next up, you can enable the combo layout for this bundle. If enabled, this displays a simplified list of all the items found in the bundle before the bundle products themselves. 

Following this, you can input a title to be displayed for this bundle. The title will be displayed before the list of bundled items. 

After this, you can choose which product items you wish to hide for your  products in this bundle. You can hide product categories, ratings, prices, quantities, and descriptions if you choose so. 

The option that follows lets you pick a price type. You can choose between using fixed prices and using prices of bundled items. 

In the event that you select using fixed prices, you can input regular and sale prices for the bundle in the fields below. 

If you select the use prices of bundled items option, the prices shown will reflect the prices of all individual items in the bundle. 

Here you can also choose a quantity type for each product found in the bundle. This lets you define how the quantity of each product found in the bundled is displayed.
 
You can either display quantity info (only displays a number of product units for a bundled product), or you can use a quantity input form (displays a number of product units for a bundled product but also lets users adjust said number). 
 
 
Next up, you can choose a shipping type for the bundle. 
 
You can ship items as bundle or ship items individually. 
 
The option that follows lets you set bundled item limits.
 
 
If you enable this option, you can input some custom text for the bundled items limit message (e.g. Add at least:). 
 
Following that, you can define minimium and maximum amounts of bundled items requred in the bundle in order to proceed with the purchase. 
 
You have the option to perform the same for different types of bundle products. 
 
Bundle Items

This is where you can add the products you wish to feature in your bundle. To add a new product, simply click the ADD NEW ITEM button.

 

For each of the items you wish to add, you can pick a product you wish to use, and set the product quantity found in the bundle. 

You can also choose between using the default or custom product name, description and image, or you can hide these from the bundle altogether. 

After that you can input a discount percentage for the product price, which will affect the bundle price. This option only takes effect if you set the Price Type option found above in the General Options to Use prices of bundled items. 

Here you can also input some textual content for the additional product description. 

Finally, you can make the product Optional (making the purchase of the bundle possible without adding the said product to the bundle), and you can also hide the product from the bundle if you choose to do so.