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What MBC Bundles can and cannot do

A single-page answer to "does this app support X?", with pointers to the article that covers each item in detail.

Written by Andrey Gadashevich

What you can build

  • Fixed-set bundles, buy-X-get-Y, mix & match, variety packs, volume/quantity-break pricing, and mini-builder offers — from 14 ready-made presets or a fully custom structure. See "The kinds of bundle you can build."

  • A bundle that exists only as a storefront widget, as a Physical product listed across your other sales channels, or as a native Shopify bundle usable in Shopify POS. See "The kinds of bundle you can build."

  • Discounts by percentage, a fixed sale price, or a flat amount off — applied to the bundle subtotal or per product, in quantity tiers, or by marking items free. See "Discounts and pricing: what's possible."

  • Free gifts: items included in the bundle at no charge, one gift the customer chooses from a set, or gifts tied to a specific volume-discount option, added to the cart automatically or left for the customer to add. See "Discounts and pricing: what's possible."

  • Customer choice: which items to buy, quantities within limits you set, swapping a product within a group, choosing variants by swatch or dropdown, and a custom text field (for example, personalization). See "The kinds of bundle you can build."

  • Discounts applied natively through Shopify Functions at cart and checkout, including on multi-currency and multi-language stores, with no discount-code step for current installs. See "How a bundle reaches the cart, checkout and the order."

  • Merging qualifying cart items into a bundle discount even when the customer never touched the widget (Automatic bundle assembly in cart). See "How a bundle reaches the cart, checkout and the order."

  • Restricting an offer to specific Shopify Markets, excluding B2B customers, scheduling a start/end date, showing a countdown, and A/B testing up to four widget variants. See "Where your bundles can sell" and "Growing sales with upsells, AI and analytics."

  • Styling the widget with templates, color themes, typography, per-language text, custom CSS/JS, and an AI style assistant — covered in the app's design-system article.

  • Cart upsell popups, a post-purchase offer, AI-generated cross-sell widgets, and revenue/AOV/conversion/ROI analytics. See "Growing sales with upsells, AI and analytics."

  • Selling in Shopify POS, the Shop app, Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, depending on which bundle type you choose. See "Where your bundles can sell."

  • Working alongside subscription apps (RecurrinGO, Recharge, Recurpay, Appstle), review apps, translation apps, page builders and inventory/fulfillment tools. See "Integrations, third-party apps and the developer surface."

What the app does not do

  • It has no subscription engine of its own. A subscription bundle needs a separate subscription app providing selling plans. See "Integrations, third-party apps and the developer surface."

  • It has no multi-step "build your own box" flow with step-by-step rules. That's a different app — MBC Bundle Builder. MBC Bundles covers mix & match and optional products within a single widget.

  • It does not offer mystery boxes.

  • It cannot generate a discount code per customer. Bundle discounts are automatic — Shopify applies them at the cart with no code typed in. A campaign that depends on each customer getting their own code needs Shopify's own discount tools or a dedicated app.

  • It cannot target a customer segment, tag or VIP tier. The only audience controls are Markets and an Exclude B2B customers toggle, so a "members only" bundle cannot be built. See "Controlling who sees your bundle: publishing, markets and B2B customers."

  • It cannot increase a price. The sale-price rule can only lower the total a customer pays. If the products you selected already cost less than the sale price you set, the bundle is added to the cart at the real product price instead.

  • Physical and Shopify bundles cannot use the quantity selector, tiered discounts, or collection-based product groups. Those three controls are only available on Widget-only bundles.

  • Not every bundle pattern appears in the Shopify POS tile. The tile lists only Standard Bundle, Mix & Match and 1+1 Product Pack patterns built from individual products (not collections) and not single-product. Volume Discount and BOGO bundles, collection-based bundles, and bundles whose optional products are shown as a pop-up never appear in the tile, and Shopify itself requires POS Pro on the location before any app tile is available at all. This limits the tile only — the bundle discount still applies to any matching POS cart, including Volume Discount bundles. See "Where your bundles can sell."

  • The countdown timer never deactivates a bundle. All four conditions, Follow end date and time set for bundle included, only draw a clock; Follow end date simply mirrors the end date you already set. What actually stops a bundle is the End date and time in its Bundle active period card.

  • It cannot exceed Shopify's own limits: 2,048 variants per product, Shopify's own ceiling on active automatic discounts per store, and combination caps of 250 (Physical bundle) or 2,048 (Shopify bundle). See "Plans, billing and limits."

  • Analytics is not available on the Free plan. See "Plans, billing and limits."

  • The storefront does not use the Shopify Storefront API or the Customer Account API. It's served through the Shopify App Proxy instead.

What you need before any of this works

  • A Shopify Online Store with the app's App embed enabled in the current theme.

  • Bundle components published to the Online Store channel (and to the Point of Sale channel if you want the bundle usable in POS).

  • A paid plan for Analytics, and for any store above 10 orders in a trailing 30 days. See "Plans, billing and limits."

  • A connected review app if you want the widget's reviews element; a subscription app if you want subscription bundles.

One detail worth knowing on its own: a product hidden from search, navigation and collections (Shopify's "Unlisted" visibility) still qualifies for a bundle. The app checks only that the product is published to the Online Store channel and that it isn't Draft or Archived — it never looks at Search & Discovery listing state.

If you're not sure which bundle fits

Start from "The kinds of bundle you can build," which maps common requests ("buy 2 get 1 free," "pick any 3 for $X," "different sizes of the same item") to the structure and preset that deliver them.

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