The Commercetools Bundles starter project contains two Merchant Center custom applications for managing product bundles. Product bundles are several goods or services that are sold to customers as a single combined package. Bundles are presented as distinct items during the shopping experience. They generally have a unique product display page and are offered through product listing pages or search results. Product bundles allow for increased customer value, shopping convenience and increased profit through larger average order value and opportunities for better inventory management.

A traditional bundle involves removing the items from inventory, pre-packing the items as a group, and receiving the package under a newly created SKU. The items are no longer able to be purchased individually. This process creates a positive customer experience and simplifies fulfillment.

An alternative option is to create a new virtual SKU that represents the bundle. This new SKU points to all items in the bundle. After the customer purchases the virtual SKU, the items are packaged and delivered. This solution targets these virtual or post-pack bundles.

Check detailed documentation about static and dynamic bundles projects,

• Bundles-static
• Bundles-dynamic

Simply run yarn from the repository root to install the application's dependencies.

It is recommended to use the latest version of node.

To run an application locally, navigate to the specific application directory and follow the guide.

• Bundles-static
• Bundles-dynamic
• Platform-extension-static-bundles
• Backend-starter-dynamic-bundles

Be sure to deploy the cloud function 'platform-extension-static-bundles' for the static bundles solution. Run terraform against the terraform folder in platform-extension-static-bundles to set up static bundles type definitions and see the sub folder 'dynamic-bundles-definitions' for dynamic bundle's terraform folder and type definitions.

Log out of Merchant Center. Log back in, then return to the custom application and reload.

• Don't use the application login to authenticate. Do make sure you are logged in to Merchant Center before developing or running a custom application.