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Composite Product Type

Learn what is composite product type and how to make a composite product.

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Written by Yansen Yulius
Updated over 2 weeks ago

In the retail business type, sometimes you want to make a package of products that contains another product. On DealPOS, you can make those kinds of products by using Composite Product Type. Composite products are usually used to sell sets of various products into one set of products.

Composite products are very suitable if you want to sell a bundled product with customizable components. When using the Composite product type, you will be enabled to combine several products into a new product. Some scenarios for you to make these combined products are:

  1. Create a package bundle containing several products.

  2. Selling products in different quantities. (i.e. 1 Pack = 6 Bottles)

  3. As a bill of materials (list of raw materials for an end-product)

To create a new composite product, you can follow the steps below.


I. Via User Interface

Step 1. Go to Product and then Click Add

product page

Step 2. Select Composite Type

Enter the bundle product's name and change the product's type to Composite and then click Save.

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Step 3. Add Products Component

Click the Component tab and the + button. Enter the product's name and quantity based on your preference.

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Step 4. Input the selling price

Once you have complete adding the components, you can input the selling price and then click the Submit button. The cost price will be added automatically based on the total cost of the products component.

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Composite product has been successfully added

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Step 5. Check the bundle availability

Click the Composite Inventory tab to see the availability. For more detail about composite inventory, you can check this article: Composite Inventory.

Composite Inventory

Note:
The bundle availability is based on the products component's inventory


II. Bulk Operation via CSV Import

To learn more about standard product importing, you can read the article Import Product Using CSV or Excel. Below are the template format for composite product type.

Composite

​Note:

Please ensure that the writing format in the Components column is as follows:

1 BA01 (number/quantity of components and component's SKU). Please note that there are no spaces in the component SKU.
​The unit cost for the composite product will be automatically calculated from the components, so you may only enter the product's unit price.


[Tutorial Video] Composite Product Type


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DealPOS is an online point-of-sale (POS) application specifically designed for retail businesses in categories like Fashion, Minimarkets, Electronics, Fresh Food, and Building Material Stores.

With DealPOS, you can manage both online and offline store inventory in real-time on a single platform. You can also sell through omnichannel (offline and online) as DealPOS integrates with marketplaces (Shopee, Tokopedia, TikTok Shop, Lazada) and instant web stores (Shopify and WooCommerce).

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