Creating a container

Creating a container is fast — a name and a description. The interesting part is what you can do with it after.

On this page

• Manual creation
• Adding existing BOMs as members
• Bulk creating new BOMs into the container
• Bulk uploading containers from a CSV

Manual creation

1. Open the BOM Containers list page.
2. Click “Create container”.
3. Provide:
   • Name (required) — what you’ll call this group.
   • Description (optional) — free-form notes.
4. Save. The container is created with no members.

Adding existing BOMs

You have two paths:

From the container detail page:

1. Click “Add BOMs to container”.
2. Multi-select from your full BOM list.
3. Save. Each selected BOM’s bomAutoId is updated to point at this container.

From a BOM’s detail page:

1. Open the BOM.
2. Find the container picker (in Basic Information or a dedicated section).
3. Pick the container. Save.

Either way, the BOM is now a member. It can only be in one container at a time.

Bulk creating new BOMs

This is the catalog-generation feature. Use it when you want N new BOMs that share a recipe.

1. From the container detail page, click “Bulk create BOMs” (the dialog might also be labeled “Quick BOM creator” depending on the variant).
2. Pick a template BOM — any existing BOM whose component recipe should be copied. The BOM you pick can be inside or outside the current container.
3. Provide the target Shopify variants — these will be the finished-good variants for the new BOMs.
   • Either pick from a Shopify resource picker, or paste variant IDs.
4. Confirm. Assemblified creates one new BOM per target variant, copying the template’s raw-material and sub-assembly references. All new BOMs are auto-assigned to this container.

The new BOMs are inactive by default — review them, then bulk-activate when ready.

Bulk container upload

For administrators creating many containers at once (e.g., setting up a category structure):

1. From the BOM Containers list page, click “Upload containers”.
2. Provide a CSV in the documented schema. Each row creates one container.
3. Confirm. Containers are created in a batch.

Common gotchas

• A BOM can only be in one container. Adding it to a new container removes it from the old one.
• Deleting a container does NOT delete its members. The members survive; their bomAutoId becomes NULL (un-grouped).
• Bulk create from template copies the recipe, not the settings. The new BOMs ship with default settings (inactive, no toggles on). Configure them per the BOM settings reference or use container bulk operations to flip them on en masse.

Where to next

• Bulk operations — the verb reference.
• BOM settings reference — to know what to bulk-toggle.