Edit: the answer is no. I tested it with two friends, results below!
I’m very grateful for the help of two friends who helped me test this twice (with separate bundles) to confirm the same results, and they only got access to what the bundle contained when they bought it.
Here’s what we did:
- First I set up a bundle - for it to count as one, it needs two products (at least one of which being a paid product/not free) and I set discount to where the price was just over $1.00
- I enabled the coupon code option so that it remained private, and gave them a link
- They kindly purchased the bundle and confirmed they received both products and can access them from their bundles via https://itch.io/my-purchases/bundles
- I then added additional paid products to the same bundle and saved the changes
- When both friends clicked the link to this bundle from their owned bundles page, it took them to a 404 “We couldn’t find your page”
- When they visited the coupon secret url they could see the bundle, but it still showed a purchase button. Clicking it and then going to “I already bought this…” to re-send the download links, the bundle download link didn’t work either
What we think is that itch treats the bundle as unique for the time of purchase So if the bundle is changed, the history for the bundle that you purchased is no longer available from purchase menu. The OG link works, but it functions as a new sale. (If someone can fact check this I’d appreciate it!)
Alternative solution:
Create a new project and treat that as a “bundle” product, where you upload the product files from other projects (you can embed/link to their pages in the page description). This way, when you add something new to your “bundle” you can send update posts and notify followers & people who already purchased :D
There are many fantastic creators already listing these!
Some further thoughts on this method:
- you can still add a sale to this individual “bundle” product :D
- updates to the original project assets will then need to be re-updated in the bundle product
- I’m not sure if people who haven’t purchased an item can leave a rating/review, but I think they can
- the bundle product may get different visibility in search depending on how you categorise it, what tags you add, and how popular it becomes
- if your customers want to own the related product/projects in their library, you probably need to set up a redeem code for each and include this in the bundle product
(Original message) Question in title: If I add more assets to a bundle, will people who already bought it get the new items?
I’d like to run a long duration bundle where I add an extra thing each month :) Thanks in advance for any info!