Assortments
An assortment is one line on a purchase order that's really several distinct products on your shelf — a "Rainforest Assortment" that's actually three planter styles in assorted colors, a mixed case that's a dozen different sellable items. Assortments turn that single line into the real products you sell, and split the cost across them correctly.
The problem they solve
Vendors invoice for their convenience, not yours. One line reads "Rainforest Assortment — $1,799.10" — but on the shelf that's 27 planters you need to scan, price, and count individually. That gap between how you're invoiced and how you sell is a granularity mismatch, and it's everywhere in gift, garden, and home.
If you received that line as-is, you'd have one mystery product and no way to sell the actual items. Two things have to happen:
- The one line becomes the real products you put on the shelf.
- The line's cost spreads across them so margins and counts stay honest — no dollar invented, none lost.
How you build one
The structure of an assortment is established with the AI helper, in conversation — not guessed from the line text. You tell it the real shape and it builds the products for you.
Describe the real structure
In the AI helper, describe the assortment — the styles, how many of each, the colors. It creates the individual child products under one assortment family, each its own sellable item with its own name, scan code, and price.
Cost flows by conservation
The line's cost is allocated across the children so the totals always reconcile: the piece count stays locked at what you received, and the children's costs sum back to exactly what the order cost. No rounding leak, no phantom dollar.
Price and label
With real products in place, your pricing rules apply per item and each one gets a scannable label — so the assortment becomes things you can actually sell and track.
Next time you order it
Once those products exist, the next order recognizes them. Each item matches back to the product you created — a confident reorder — and the quantities flow in automatically. You build the structure once.