Household cleaning appliance with a dispensing system operable between a single use dispensing system and a bulk dispensing system

In a laundry treating appliance configured to execute a cleaning cycle on a laundry article, having a cabinet defining an interior, a rotatable drum located within the interior and defining a treating chamber for receiving an article for treating and a dispensing system having a single use dispensing chamber located within the cabinet, wherein the single use dispensing chamber is fluidly coupled to the treating chamber, and wherein the single use dispensing chamber stores a single dose of treating chemistry that the dispensing system dispenses to the treating chamber as part of the execution of the cleaning cycle, a method comprising:

• adding bulk dispensing functionality to the single use dispensing chamber by fluidly coupling a liquid bulk dispensing cartridge to the single use dispensing chamber and metering, via a treating chemistry meter, liquid treating chemistry from the liquid bulk dispensing cartridge into the single use dispensing chamber, where the liquid bulk dispensing cartridge is configured to contain multiple doses of liquid treating chemistry, and wherein the metering via the treating chemistry meter comprises metering at least one of the multiple doses of liquid treating chemistry into the single use dispensing chamber to define a metered liquid, such that the metered liquid is dispensed to the treating chamber via the single use dispensing chamber as part of execution of the cleaning cycle to provide the single use dispensing chamber with the bulk dispensing functionality.