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How Native Bundles Work in Shopify

A technical walkthrough of native Shopify bundles and the Cart Transform API: the parent product, its components, the bundle configuration, and how a bundle is expanded on every cart event so it flows through checkout and fulfillment.

In this post
  • A native Shopify bundle has two parts: the parent (the product added to cart) and the components (the products that actually get fulfilled)
  • Every parent has a configuration that tells Shopify which components belong to it
  • The Cart Transform Function runs on every cart event (add, update, remove, checkout) and expands the parent into its components
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