Customers often need more than a single product. They want a complete solution – a camera with a memory card and carrying case, a printer with starter ink, a kit that just works out of the box. Building that kind of offer in a commerce platform is where many retailers run into friction. In Norce Commerce, Structure Articles are designed to make it straightforward.
A Structure Article is a product that bundles several individual SKUs into a single purchasable unit. The customer sees one product, one price, one add-to-cart button. Behind the scenes, Norce tracks the components separately, calculates availability based on what is actually in stock across all included items, and keeps pricing accurate automatically. Availability is calculated from the child products, so you never oversell a bundle when one of the included items runs out.
Pricing flexibility is one of the more useful aspects of the functionality. You can set the package price as a sum of the component prices with an optional discount, define a fixed target price and let Norce distribute it proportionally across the included items, or apply individual price rules per component – margin-based, cost-plus, or fixed – so each item in the bundle carries the right price logic for your business. This means you can price a bundle competitively without manually maintaining a separate price for every package variant you offer.
Some of the most common uses for Structure Articles include:
Starter kits and complete sets. Group products that naturally belong together into a single offering, with a package price that reflects the value of the combination.
Seasonal and campaign packages. Assemble time-limited bundles without changing your underlying product catalogue.
Upsell through bundling. Increase average order value by making complementary products available as a ready-made set.
Soft bundles. The individual components remain sellable on their own. The bundle is an additional purchase option, not a catalogue constraint.
Structure Articles are real products in the catalogue, which means they can be published to external channels and marketplaces with pre-calculated prices and accurate availability.