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How to price a bundle without underselling your own parts

A bundle is a pricing decision, not a marketing one. Get the arithmetic wrong and every buyer learns to wait for the discount.

The short answer

Doing the sum

  1. List the parts and their prices. That is your ceiling.
  2. Decide the bundle discount in percent, not in dollars, so it survives a price change on one part.
  3. Work out what the fees leave you at the bundle price - a bundle sells fewer transactions, so your margin has to still make sense.
  4. Set the bundle price at a round number just under the arithmetic result, and write the exact sum on the page.
  5. Check the page as a buyer: can they see what is inside, the separate prices, the bundle price, and the difference?
  6. Look at it again in a month. Bundles are easy to improve once you know which parts people ask about.

What to say on the page

State what the bundle is for, not just what is in it. 'Everything needed to run a one-person studio's admin' is a reason; a list of five files is a pile.

Be plain about what is not included, especially if the single files have extras.

Where this goes wrong

The free tool for this

A bundle price that does not undercut yourself - A bundle price that does not undercut yourself. It runs in the page, asks for your own numbers, and sends nothing anywhere.

If you would rather not build it yourself

The Whole Shelf is all ten files at the bundle price, with the sum shown on the page so a buyer can see exactly what the difference is. The Whole Shelf is $59. See it on the shop, and there is a plain page about it here: what it holds.

Questions people actually ask

What discount do people expect?

Enough to see, small enough to believe - for most shelves that is between a fifth and a third off the sum. The exact number matters less than showing your working.

Should the bundle replace my single files?

No. Singles are the entry point, and a buyer who starts with one file comes back. Keep both, and let the page compare them plainly.

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