With Bandzoogle’s selling tools, you can create unique bundles to share with your fans. Bundles are a great way to combine multiple products in one package, which can be especially useful for items frequently purchased together or for special promotions. Bandzoogle doesn’t take a cut of any of your sales so that’s more money in your pocket.

This Help article includes:

  • What types of items can you bundle
  • How to create a bundle
  • Adding new products to a bundle
  • Reporting bundle sales to Luminate (formerly SoundScan)
  • When to use bundles

Note: Product bundling is only available on the Pro plan.

What types of items can you bundle

Bandzoogle allows you to sell both digital and physical goods from your website. To make a bundle, you will add two or more products.

You can bundle physical products, Printful print-on-demand items, digital music, CDs, cassettes, vinyl, tickets, and file downloads. Within the ‘Bundles’ option, any items you’ve previously added to your Bandzoogle ‘Store,’ ‘Music,’ or ‘Calendar’ features will be available to add to a bundle. A bundle will track the inventory set in your product settings, so be sure you have enough stock if you plan to sell bundles as well as individual products.

How to create a bundle

Bundles can be created from items already added to your account. Once you add an item in your ‘Store,’ ‘Music,’ or ‘Calendar’ feature, they’ll be saved in your account for quick access. You can also add and edit products through the ‘Products’ section of your ‘Selling Tools’ tab.

To create a bundle of previously added items, choose one of the two options for creating products in your Bandzoogle account:

METHOD ONE, through the ‘Store’ feature:

  1. From the ‘Edit Content’ tab, click ‘Pages’ and open the page on which you’ll be working
  2. Click ‘Add feature’
  3. Select the ‘Store’ feature and use the placement arrows to set the feature’s location
  4. Click ‘Add Product’
  5. In the ‘Product type’ dropdown, select ‘Bundle’
  6. Click ‘Add products to your bundle’
  7. Next, you can browse items you’ve previously added to your ‘Store’ feature. Items are categorized in the following sections: All, Products, Printful, Music, Tickets, File Downloads
  8. For the item you’d like to add to the bundle, use the arrows to set the quantity of the item you’d like to add to the bundle. This setting is defaulted to one unit.
  9. Once you’ve selected the quantity, click ‘Add’
  10. Repeat this process for the items you want to add to this bundle
  11. Click ‘Save & continue’
  12. Next, make adjustments to the items you’ve added as needed
  13. Complete the following fields for your bundle:
    • Title: Give your bundle a name
    • Description: Enter a thorough description of what the customer will receive should they buy this item
    • Images: Upload images of your product from your device. You can add multiple images here to show multiple aspects of the product
    • Status:
      • Available: Item will display for sale on your website.
      • Not available: Item will display on your website but will include a ‘Not available’ note below the image.
      • Hidden: Allows you to add the item on your Bandzoogle account but won’t display on your website until you set it to ‘available’.
    • Purchase type:
      • Free
      • Paid - fixed price: You set a purchase price for the item.
        • Optional: Select ‘Is on sale’ to set a sale price or a discount percentage.
      • Paid - fans set price: You allow your fans to set the price they want to pay for the item. A minimum amount can be set here.
    • Subscriber pricing: Toggle on and to set a special price for your site subscribers
      • Lowest applicable tier: select the lowest tier subscriber pricing is available to
      • Subscriber purchase type:
        • Free
        • Paid - fixed price: You set a purchase price for the item.
          • Optional: Select ‘Is on sale’ to set a sale price or a discount percentage.
        • Paid - fans set price: You allow your fans to set the price they want to pay for the item. A minimum amount can be set here.
    • Taxjar category: If you are connected to Taxjar, select the tax category for your item.
      • For detailed information on tax, please view the ‘Adding Sales Tax’ Help article.
    • Shipping: Toggle on if the item requires shipping. Choose your shipping options and costs.

For detailed information on shipping, please view the ‘Shipping Merch’ Help article.

Note: If not toggled on, the transaction will not require a shipping address

  1. Click ‘Save’

METHOD TWO, through the ‘Selling Tools’ tab:

  1. Click ‘Selling Tools’ in the menu at the top of your Bandzoogle control panel
  2. Click ‘Products’ in the list of options at the left of the screen
  3. Click the ‘Add product’ button in the top right corner of the page
  4. Under ‘Product Type’, select the ‘Bundle’ from the dropdown
  5. Follow steps 6 to 14 listed above, in the ‘METHOD ONE' section

Adding new products to a bundle

To add a new item to a bundle, you will add the product one of two ways:

1) Through a ‘Music,’ ‘Store,’ or ‘Calendar’ feature,

or

2) through the ‘Products’ section of your ‘Selling Tools’ tab.

Once you have added a product to your account, it will be available as an option to be added to your bundles.

For the steps on adding products to different features, please view the Bandzoogle 'Selling Tools' Help article.

Reporting bundle sales to Luminate (formerly SoundScan)

Luminate (formerly SoundScan) does not report album sales if they are bundled with merchandise. Merchandise accounts for anything that is not the album itself - this includes event tickets, apparel, virtual items, etc.

Multiple formats of the same album can be bundled together (CD + digital album). However, only one sale from each bundle is reportable, and in a 'physical + digital' album combination only the physical sale is the reportable sale. The sale is reported to Luminate when the product is marked as shipped within your Bandzoogle transactions.

If you are bundling a digital album or single with a CD, cassette, or vinyl, only the physical version of the album will be reported. If you add multiple physical formats to a bundle, only one physical version will be reported.

Here are a few examples of bundles and how they would be reported:

  • Digital download + CD bundle: 1 physical sale reported to Luminate
  • Digital download + vinyl bundle: 1 physical sale reported to Luminate
  • Digital download + CD + vinyl + cassette bundle: 1 physical sale reported to Luminate
  • Digital download + t-shirt bundle: the sale cannot be reported to Luminate

If you plan to sell a physical CD, cassette, or vinyl along with a digital download, and want your music reported to Luminate, be sure that you have UPC codes added to both digital and physical versions of the same album, and that you mark transactions as ‘shipped’ in your Bandzoogle account once you’ve sent the packages.

To be sure your digital music sales are reported, you may want to sell digital albums on their own. To learn more about how sales are reported, please view the 'Reporting Sales to Luminate (formerly Soundscan)' Help article.

When to use bundles

Combining products can be useful for an artist in many ways. Use bundles to offer sales in an innovative way, to create a crowdfunding campaign, or to move more merchandise along with your albums.

You can bundle earlier music releases, offer a discounted rate for buying multiple products, or set up a combination of similar products for your fans.