Boxoffice proposes bundles out of your own catalogue and shows the arithmetic — what the parts sum to, what the bundle is priced at, what the discount really is, and how many copies it would have to move to beat selling them apart.
Nothing opens in this browser — this one takes a job and does the work on our own graphics cards in Oregon. The free allowance below is how you try it: 12 bundles, no card and no payment, on the key you are issued.
Every number on the output is derived from a column you supplied. Where a column is missing, the figure is named as missing rather than filled in.
The problem
Three titles at $12 sold as a set at $25 is either the smartest thing you did this quarter or a discount you handed to people who were going to buy all three anyway. The difference is arithmetic, and almost nobody does it — bundles get priced at a round number that feels right, and the catalogue never finds out what it left behind.
Not scored. Every bundle comes with the sum of its parts, the bundle price, the implied discount and the break-even copies — all four visible, so you can disagree with the conclusion and still use the numbers.
With no units-sold column, the copies figure is still given, but no sales rate is assumed. A conversion number invented out of nothing is the most dangerous figure on a pricing page.
Bundles are built from titles you already own and already list. Nothing is recommended that you would have to make, buy or license first.
Boxoffice will give you the break-even copies without a sales history, because that is arithmetic on the prices. What it will not do is turn that into "this bundle will sell" by assuming a conversion rate it has no basis for. The row says the rate is unknown. A tool that quietly picks 2% to make its own output look decisive is lying about the thing that matters most.
How it works
Titles, prices, and whatever you have for runtime, series, performers and units sold. More columns mean better grouping; fewer columns mean fewer claims, never invented ones.
Candidate bundles, each with why those titles are together — same shoot, same series, same pairing, adjacent in theme. The reason is printed, so a grouping you think is wrong is obviously wrong rather than mysteriously wrong.
What the parts sum to, what you would charge, and how many copies the bundle must move to beat selling them individually. That number is the decision; everything else is context for it.
What it will never do
Pricing tools fail by being confident. Boxoffice is built so the places it does not know something are visible on the page rather than smoothed over.
Pricing
Reading the catalogue costs nothing — that is arithmetic over columns. What is metered is the bundle that comes back, which means the price scales with what you got rather than with how big your catalogue happens to be. Twelve bundles are free on every key, and twelve is plenty to decide whether the groupings make sense for your storefront.
Enough to judge the groupings on your own catalogue.
A working storefront bundled properly.
A library several labels deep.
Flat per bundle, never a share of bundle sales. A bundle that comes back without its full arithmetic is not charged — so padding the output with half-finished suggestions costs us rather than you. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.
Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor. The units you buy are added to your key: buy from the Buy more box inside the program and they arrive on their own once the payment confirms, or buy here and paste the invoice number from your receipt into that box.
Questions
It will show you what each candidate price does to the arithmetic, including the break-even. It will not hand you one number and call it the answer.
What you charge depends on things no file knows: your audience, your competition this month, and whether you would rather have the revenue or the volume.
It still works, and it says plainly which figures are unavailable.
You get the groupings, the sums, the implied discounts and the break-even copies. What you do not get is any claim about whether a bundle will sell, because nothing in the file supports one.
Yes, and that is the easiest case — the groupings are obvious and the arithmetic is the whole value.
Catalogues with no series structure are the harder case; the groupings lean on theme and pairing and are worth reading sceptically.
No. Grouping runs on Tower 1's own graphics cards in Oregon and the arithmetic runs in Python beside it.
A key. One line of text, issued to you and shown exactly once — only its hash is kept here, so it cannot be looked up later and we could not tell you what yours is. Every key arrives with a free allowance already on it, which is the tier at the top of the pricing above, and the work starts the first time you send a job with that key on it.
Each job is metered in the unit named in the pricing, and a unit that fails — a file that will not read, a row the model held back — is not charged and is named in the job report rather than silently skipped. When an allowance runs out the next job is refused before any work starts, with the number it used printed on the refusal.
More units are bought in bitcoin. The checkout is a bitcoin server we run ourselves. Buy from the Buy more box inside the program and the units are added to your key on their own as soon as the payment confirms; buy from the plan buttons above and paste the invoice number from your receipt into that same box. Each payment adds its units once, to one key.
The break-even copies on your three best candidate bundles. If it is lower than you expected, you have been leaving that money on the table for as long as the catalogue has existed.