SMART Bundles vs Shopify Bundles
Updated · SMART Bundles App & Upsells (E-TRADE PARTNER)
Both apps are free. Shopify Bundles turns a fixed set of products, or a multipack, into a new bundle product whose stock follows its components. SMART Bundles creates no products: it shows offers such as quantity breaks, Buy X get Y and mix and match in a widget on your existing product pages, and applies the discount at checkout.
SMART Bundles App & Upsells is a free Shopify app for bundles, quantity breaks, free gifts and upsells.
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The choice comes down to what you want to sell. A kit with its own product page, SKU and stock count is a job for Shopify Bundles. A lower price for buying more, or for adding a second product, on products you already list is what SMART Bundles does.
Quick comparison
| SMART Bundles | Shopify Bundles | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. One plan with every feature | Free, on every Shopify plan |
| What you create | Discount offers shown in a widget on your product pages. No new products | A separate bundle product in Products. It starts as a draft until you set it to Active |
| Bundle types | Quantity breaks, Buy X get Y (same product), Complete the bundle (up to 6 products), Mix and match, Alternative product | Fixed bundles and multipacks. Mix-and-match bundles aren't supported |
| Inventory | Each product keeps its own stock and its own cart line. There is no bundle stock count | Bundle stock comes from the component with the lowest stock, updated in real time. It's tracked by overall stock, not by location |
| Bundle price | Percentage off, amount off each item, amount off the total, fixed price per item or fixed total price. Optional own amount per currency | The price you set on the bundle product. It doesn't update when a component's price changes |
| Discount codes | Bundle offers are automatic only. Free gift and the cart discount types can be automatic or use a code | Bundle products take discount codes and automatic discounts. Product-specific discounts must include the parent bundle product |
| Subscriptions | Optional Subscribe and save choice in the widget, from the product's selling plans; the first subscription order gets the bundle discount | Not compatible with purchase options: subscriptions, pre-orders and try-before-you-buy |
| Where it sells | Online Store themes, through the SMART Discounts app embed. No headless storefronts. Bundle discounts skip Shopify POS unless you untick "Exclude POS" | Online Store, Shop, Shopify POS and headless storefronts. Fixed bundles also on Google & YouTube |
| Size limits | Complete the bundle takes up to 6 products. The widget doesn't load on products with more than 250 variants | Fixed bundles up to 30 components, up to 2,000 units per component, 3 options and 100 variants per bundle |
| In the order | Separate product lines, each carrying its discount | A nested bundle group with its title, price and items, in checkout, order notifications and abandoned checkouts |
| Reports | "Total revenue", "Added revenue", "Orders" and "Average order value" for bundles, per offer | Bundle total sales, bundle orders, top total sales and most ordered, linked to Shopify reports |
| Admin languages | 25. The app follows your Shopify admin language | 20 on the listing |
Sources, checked 2026-11-02: Shopify Bundles on the Shopify App Store, Shopify Help Center: Shopify Bundles and Eligibility and considerations for using product bundles. Shopify Bundles has no paid plans, so the listing's "Free" is its whole price list (USD), and features are described the way Shopify describes them on the date checked. Shopify Bundles is a trademark of its owner; E-TRADE PARTNER is not affiliated with it. Spot something out of date? Email support@etradepartner.io.
When Shopify Bundles fits better
- The bundle has to be a product of its own, with a page, a SKU and a stock count. Shopify works out how many complete bundles you can sell from the component with the lowest stock, in real time. SMART leaves each product's stock as it is and never creates a bundle product.
- You sell the kit outside your Online Store theme. Shopify lists Shop and Shopify POS for bundle products, and Google & YouTube for fixed bundles (Shopify: product bundles); its Shopify Bundles page adds headless storefronts (Shopify Bundles limitations). The SMART widget needs an Online Store theme with the app embed on.
- Your packing team reads the kit from the order. Shopify groups a bundle's items under the bundle title and price in checkout, notifications and abandoned checkouts. With SMART, the order lists the separate products, each with its own discount.
- You want to run a discount code on the bundle itself. Shopify bundle products take codes as well as automatic discounts. SMART bundle offers are automatic only.
When SMART Bundles fits
- The offer is about buying more rather than a new SKU: 10% off two, buy 2 get 1 free, or any 3 from a collection. Shopify Bundles makes fixed bundles and multipacks and doesn't support mix-and-match. See quantity breaks and mix and match.
- You sell subscriptions. Shopify bundle products aren't compatible with purchase options. In SMART, the Subscriptions extra adds a Subscribe and save choice from the product's own selling plans, with the bundle discount on the first subscription order (subscriptions in a bundle).
- Your prices change often. A Shopify bundle keeps the price you set when a component's price moves. A SMART percentage or amount-off offer is worked out from the price in the cart; choose Fixed total price when you want a set pack price instead.
- You also want a gift that adds itself to the cart, a spend goal or a shipping discount in the same free app. See free gift and cart discounts.
Two ways to price a bundle
Shopify Bundles prices the bundle as a product. You set its price yourself, commonly below the sum of its parts, and any discount on top is calculated on the parent bundle and then shared across the components by their share of the price (Shopify: product bundles and discounts).
SMART Bundles leaves your product prices alone. The widget shows the offer price on the product page and, by default, updates the theme's displayed price to match ("Update theme product price"). At cart and checkout, an automatic discount applies whenever the cart qualifies, whether or not the shopper used the widget, unless you turn on "Apply the discount only to items added through the widget". New bundles combine with product, order and shipping discounts; the other discount has to allow combining too (combine with other discounts). For more on what Shopify's app can and can't do, see Shopify Bundles app limits.
Discount the products you already sell
Install SMART Bundles for free, pick a template, and show quantity breaks or a mix and match offer on your product pages without creating new products.
Install free on ShopifyFrequently asked questions
›Does SMART Bundles create a bundle product with its own SKU and stock?
No. SMART Bundles creates discount offers. The products in an offer stay separate Shopify products with their own stock, and they go into the cart as separate lines. If you need one bundle SKU with linked stock, Shopify Bundles creates that kind of product.
›Can a SMART bundle use a discount code?
No. Bundles are always automatic, with no code and no usage limit. Free gift and the Volume discount, Order goal, Buy X get Y, Shipping discount and Advanced discount types can run automatically or with a code.