Pack & Ship WooCommerce Product Bundles with UPS

With this guide, we’ll show you how to create WooCommerce Product Bundles and ship them using UPS shipping services.

We would use the WooCommerce Product Bundles plugin to create the bundled products and the WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin for all shipping-related things.


What are WooCommerce Product Bundles?

A WooCommerce Product Bundle consists of two or more products that can be sold together as a single product. However, it is different than the individual products it consists of.

Firstly, bundled products can have their own price irrespective of the price of the individual products. Secondly, store owners can provide a separate discount for the bundled product.

This discount will be different than the individual products that make up the bundled one. Product bundling is used mainly to boost the sales of the products.

By bundling two or more products, store owners generally create a separate product on their website at a discounted rate. This way their customers have the option to either buy a single product at full rate or buy 2 or more products together at a discounted rate.


But before that, let’s get to know these plugins in brief.

WooCommerce Product Bundles Plugin

The WooCommerce Product Bundles plugin provides us with a way to configure bundled products. Using this plugin you can create bundles by combining simple products together.

It also provides an option to add product costs individually or together as a bundle product. In case the store owners set the cost individually then the individual cost of multiple products will be added together.

This will be labeled as the cost of the bundled product. This plugin also provides the ability to add discounts for the bundle product.


WooCommerce UPS Shipping Plugin

The WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin is the best UPS shipping solution that automates the whole shipping process on your WooCommerce store. This complete shipping plugin offers WooComerce store owners real-time UPS shipping rates for domestic as well as international shipments.

Besides that, the plugin offers advanced features such as bulk shipping label creation, shipment tracking across the globe, the ability to adjust WooCommerce Shipping rates, etc.,

Now since you are well aware of both the plugins and the features they provide, let us check out how these plugins work together to make it easier to ship bundled products.


Creating WooCommerce Product Bundles

As discussed, bundle products are a combination of two or more products combined together to form an independent product. However, this functionality is not provided by WooCommerce by default.

Using the WooCommerce Product Bundles plugin, store owners can easily create a bundled product. The plugin adds a dedicated bundled product section on the product level.

The image shows the option to add a product bundle to the edit products page.

woocommerce product bundles

After successfully creating the bundled product, the customers will be able to see a new product on the website. The image below shows the bundled product containing multiple products.

creating woocommerce product bundle

Shipping Bundled Products using UPS Shipping services

As mentioned before, the WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin is the best choice when it comes to shipping your products via UPS. Let’s see how it handles the shipping in the case of WooCommerce Product Bundles.

Once the customer adds the bundled product to the cart and calculates shipping, the official shipping rates are displayed on the cart page. The image below shows the UPS shipping rates displayed for a bundled product.

cart page

The customer can now place an order for a bundled product. After placing the order, the store owner just has to click on Generate Packages to get the packages prepared for shipment. Once done, the plugin will generate the packages to include the products.

It is worth noticing that the number of packages, as well as the shipping rates, will depend on the packing method that you have selected in the plugin settings.

The WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin also allows store owners to get an idea about the shipping rates on the orders page. The image below shows the packages created in the case of the bundled product as well as the shipping rates displayed on the orders page.

shipping rates

Once the packages are created, just click on Confirm Shipment and the plugin will get the official UPS shipping label for your order.

The UPS shipping label can be easily downloaded and printed on the packages, from within the website. The below image shows the shipping label that we got for our bundled product.

shipping label

So this is how the WooCommerce Product Bundles plugin and WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin can simplify the whole process of shipping bundled products. If you want to have a better idea of the whole process, the below video will help you in understanding it better.


Summary

In this article, we discussed bundled products in WooCommerce. Online store owners face a lot of issues while shipping bundled products.

The WooCommerce UPS Shipping plugin, along with the WooCommerce Product Bundles plugin allows store owners to carry out their daily shipping routine without having to worry about the bundled products. With one plugin arranging the bundled products and the other handling their shipping, store owners can manage bundle product shipping very easily.

If you have a query or need help setting up the WooCommerce UPS shipping plugin then Contact PluginHive Customer Support. Our support team will help you set up WooCmmerce shipping on your website.

Happy selling!