Bundles: selling components as one line

What is a Bundle?

A bundle is a group product that appears as a single line on sales and purchase documents, but behind the scenes, the system tracks and consumes its component inventory. Unlike a kit, the bundle does not expand into separate line items.

Why Bundles Matter

Bundles simplify your customer experience while keeping inventory accurate:

• Clean documents: Invoices and sales orders show one line per bundle, not a dozen component lines. Customers see what they ordered.
• Hidden complexity: Your internal components—sizes, variants, or sourcing details—stay out of sight.
• Inventory accuracy: When a bundle is sold, the system reduces each component from warehouse stock, just as it would for a kit.
• Pricing flexibility: You set the bundle price once; component cost changes don't force document rewrites.

How Bundles Work in Usystems

1. You create a group product marked as a bundle and define its components and quantities.
2. When you add the bundle to an invoice, sales order, purchase order, or bill, it appears as a single line with the bundle's name and price.
3. Usystems silently reduces inventory for each component based on the bundle's composition.
4. Reports and ledger entries reflect the actual component costs, ensuring accurate cost tracking.

Bundles vs. Kits

A kit expands into multiple lines on the document, showing each component separately. Choose a bundle when you want a cleaner document layout and a kit when component transparency is important to the customer or for internal operations.

Where You See Bundles

• Creating sales documents: Invoices → New Invoice Open in Usystems or Sales Orders Open in Usystems
• Creating purchase documents: Bills → New Bill Open in Usystems or Purchase Orders Open in Usystems
• Inventory tracking: Inventory Open in Usystems shows component stock levels (not the bundle itself)
• Product list: Products & Services Open in Usystems displays the bundle with a group-product icon