Cart Transform API – Grouped items not clearly displayed in admin Order view

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Hello,

When using the Cart Transform API to bundle products together, the grouped items appear correctly for customers:

  • In the cart on the storefront
  • During checkout
  • In customer accounts
  • In order confirmation emails

However, in the Order view in the Shopify Admin, each item still shows up as a separate line. The only indication that they were part of a bundle is a small note that says “Part of X product”, which links to a generic product URL in the admin.

This creates a couple of problems:

  • If a customer purchases multiple bundles in a single order, it’s impossible to tell which items belong to which bundle.
  • The visual grouping and clarity you get on the storefront side are completely lost for staff reviewing orders.

To clarify, when I refer to “bundles,” I’m talking about grouped products created through Cart Transform, not Shopify Bundles.

Has anyone found a workaround to improve how these bundled items are displayed in the admin order view? Or is this just a current limitation of the Cart Transform API?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

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Hi @devenini

This is a known limitation of the Cart Transform API: while it allows you to visually group and bundle products for the customer experience (cart, checkout, emails, etc.), the Shopify Admin order view does not natively support visual grouping of bundled items created via Cart Transform.

Each item still appears as a separate line item, with only a small note indicating bundle membership. There is currently no built-in way to visually group or nest these items in the Admin order view.

What you could try is using metafields for grouping, eg: you could write a metafield to each line item indicating the bundle it belongs to. However, this will not change the visual grouping in the Admin UI—metafields only provide more structured data for staff to reference.