Premium Art Prints — Multiple Sizes & Frames (Bundle Group)

Sample case

You sell a single piece of artwork but offer it in various sizes and frame options (e.g., 8×10″, 12×16″, 20×30″, with either Wood frame or Metal frame).

In Shopify, each size + frame combination is treated as a separate variant. If you set inventory separately for each variant, you risk:

  • Double-counting your stock (e.g., 100 prints available → you might inadvertently allow 300).

  • Incorrect stock levels when someone buys one size/frame variant -> you want that to reduce the stock for all size/frame options.

Solution

Step
What to Do
Purpose

1

Create a hidden “Base Inventory” product

Track shared stock

2

Create test variant products

Simulate real products customers see

3

Link them via bundle setup

Sync inventory

4

Place a test order

Verify stock updates correctly

5

Clean up test data

Keep your store tidy

Steps to manage

Step 1: Create a base product (Inventory Source)

This product will act as your main inventory tracker, it’s not meant for customers to buy directly.

  1. In your Shopify admin, go to Products → Add product

  2. Name it something like Art Print - Base Inventory

  3. Set the Product status to active

  4. Under Inventory, set:

    • Track quantity: Checked

    • Quantity available: e.g., 100 (this means you have 100 total art prints in stock)

    • Continue selling when out of stock: Unchecked

Example: If you have 100 physical prints in total (regardless of size or frame), you’ll enter 100 here. Every time a variant sells, this base inventory will decrease accordingly.

Step 2: Create your variant products

Now create the products your customers will actually see. If you already products, you can ignore this step.

  1. Go to Products → Add product again

  2. Name it Art Print

  3. Scroll to Options → Variants, and add your test options.

    • Option 1: Size → 8×10, 12×16, 20x30

    • Option 2: Frame → Wood, Metal

  4. This will automatically generate 4 variants:

    • 8×10 Wood

    • 8×10 Metal

    • 12×16 Wood

    • 12×16 Metal

    • 20x30 Wood

    • 20x30 Metal

  5. Under Inventory for each variant:

    • Track quantity: Checked

    • Quantity available: e.g., 0 (you’ll leave this blank or 0 because it’ll be synced to the base product later)

Step 3: Link Products to Bundle Group

  1. Open the Tipo Sync app > go to Bundles Groups > click New bundle

  2. Select one variants from product Art Print as bundle master, and the base product as the component

  3. Save the bundle group

Now, when someone buys any of those variants, the base inventory decreases by 1 and the stock count for all linked variants updates automatically.

Step 4: Test the sync

To make sure it’s working:

  1. In Shopify, manually create a test order for one variant (e.g., 8×10 Wood)

  2. Go back to Products → Art Print - Base Inventory. You’ll see the stock decrease by 1 (from 100 → 99).

  3. Check the other variants (e.g., 12×16 Metal). their available stock should now show 99 too.

⇒ That means your test setup works correctly!

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