Chapter 42
How do I arrange what a customer sees first?
Groups arrange your shop window into sections with headings — they never decide who gets to see a product, only where it appears.
A product left out of every group still shows, in a trailing section at the end — so building your first group can never accidentally hide the rest of your catalogue from a visitor. Add groups gradually, for the lines you most want a first-time visitor to notice; everything else stays visible exactly as it was before you started.
A section empties itself when it should
A group whose products have all sold out or been retired disappears from the window on its own — nobody has to remember to take down an empty section.
This is the same idea as the till's own product tabs, arranged the same honest way: a shop that never builds a single group sees exactly today's plain list, and nothing changes until you decide it should.