Item Grouping lets you bundle many related SKUs — usually the colors or sizes of a single product line — under one named product that your contractors search for and add to a quote.
Without grouping, a contractor searching for a shingle sees every individual SKU: each color, each variation, one row at a time. With grouping, they see one product — GAF Timberline HDZ — and choose the color after they've added it to the quote.
A group has three parts:
A group name — what the contractor searches for and sees on the quote, such as GAF Timberline HDZ
A category — how the group is classified, such as Shingle or Hip & Ridge
Associated items — the individual SKUs inside it, such as every Timberline HDZ color
Item Grouping is useful because it turns a long list of near-identical SKUs into a single product decision. A catalog of 80,000 items becomes a catalog a contractor can actually shop, and orders come in against the right SKU because the color was chosen from a picture rather than typed from memory.
