What is a kit?
A kit lets you sell a bundle of products that you also stock on their own. A kit (also called a bundle or pack) is a product variation made up of other variations, such as a "Starter kit" that holds one shirt, one mug and one sticker.
A kit's stock is tied to the items inside it. When a kit sells, the stock of the items inside it goes down too. When an item's stock changes, the number of kits you can sell changes with it.
To use kits, you need the Growth plan or higher. Kits are also available during the free trial.
Create a kit
In Shuttle, open Inventory and click Manage kits.
Click Create Kit. If you have no kits yet, click Create your first kit.
Search for the variation that will be the kit. Type at least 3 characters. Searching by SKU or ID gives the quickest results. Only the first 50 matches are shown, so be specific.
Next to the right variation, click Create Kit.
A new kit has no items yet, so it stays inactive until you add some.
Add items to a kit
On the kit, click Add Item.
Search for a variation to include.
Enter how many of that variation go into one kit, then click Add Item.
Repeat for each item.
A kit turns active as soon as you add its first item. Kits can't contain other kits, so a variation that is already a kit can't be added as an item.
A kit's items can be changed at any time. To change an item's quantity, edit the number next to it. To take an item out, click Remove. If you remove the last item, the kit turns inactive.
Turn a kit on or off
Each kit shows an Active or Inactive status, and clicking the status switches it. Shuttle only keeps active kits in sync. A kit with no items can't be turned on.
Update a kit's stock
Shuttle works out a kit's stock from its items, as the number of complete kits you could build before any item runs out. For example, if a kit needs 2 mugs and you have 7 mugs, you can build 3 kits.
When Etsy and Shopify give different numbers for a kit's stock, Shuttle uses the lower one and sets it on both.
To update one kit, click Update Kit on it, then click Update kit.
To update every active kit, click Update All Kits at the top of the page, then click Update now. The update runs in the background, so you can close the page. If the update stops before the end, click Continue on the page to pick up where it left off.
Import kits from a CSV file
Click Import Kits.
Click Download sample CSV file to see the format. Each row holds a kit's SKU, an item's SKU, and how many of that item go into the kit.
Click Choose CSV file, pick your file, then click Import kits.
Kits can only be imported by SKU. If more than one variation uses the same SKU, Shuttle can't tell which one you mean, so that row won't be imported.
The kit import runs in the background. When it's done, open Import Kits again and click Download last import results to see any rows that failed.
New kits created by an import start as Inactive, even once their items are added, so Shuttle won't keep them in sync until you turn them on. When the import is done, click the Inactive status on each new kit to turn it on.
Kits that already existed before the import keep the status they had.
Are kits kept in sync automatically?
Yes, Shuttle keeps kits in sync automatically while the Stock Syncer is on.
When a kit sells on Etsy or Shopify, Shuttle lowers the stock of each item in it on both platforms.
When an item's stock changes, for example when the item sells on its own, Shuttle works out the stock again for every active kit that contains it.
Changing a kit's stock by hand doesn't change the stock of its items. A sale is the only thing that tells Shuttle exactly how many kits went out, so items only go down after a kit is sold.