This article will help you get started using Connected Inventory. Quickly learn the basics around Inventory Groups and Bundles
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Connected Inventory essentially allows you to define how the inventory of one product (or variant) is related to other product (or variant). In order to fully utilise this app, we will need to go through two important concepts: Inventory Groups and Bundles and Sets
Inventory Groups are collections of existing products (or variants) used to share the same inventory quantity.
When one of the product (or variant) in an Inventory Group is sold, the app will reduce the inventory quantity of all other products (or variants) of the same Inventory Group.
Inventory Group is especially useful for merchants who had created multiple products (or variants) on Shopify; but they all needs to draw (or share) on the same base inventory.
As an example, we have an online store that has 100 black color blank T-Shirt. The blank T-Shirt can print either a Dog photo or a Cat photo. Naturally on Shopify, the store would create two different products: Black T-Shirt with a Dog Print and Black T-Shirt with a Cat Print. Regardless of which product that the store is selling, they only have 100 black blank T-Shirt they can sell. This is an example of different products drawing on the same base inventory.
To continue with this example, the store has created an Inventory Group that contains the 2 Black T-Shirt products. Each has an inventory of 100 because the store has maximum 100 Black T-Shirts they can sell, although they can print either a Dog design or a Cat design on the Black T-Shirt.