Comparisons
compare Comparisons show exactly what changed between two planograms. Every new item, every cut, and every facing change is colored right on the shelf, listed in shelf order, and backed by the numbers that justify it. No flipping between two PDFs to spot the differences, and no spreadsheet to reconcile by hand.
Built for Line Reviews
A line review comes down to three questions: what changed, how much, and why. Whether you are presenting a reset or approving one, a comparison answers all three on one screen, and exports them as a document you can hand across the table.
- What changed: added, removed, and changed Positions are colored on both plans, so a buyer sees the new set and the old one at a glance instead of hunting for differences.
- How much: counts of added, removed, and changed Positions, and total facings before and after, lead the report. Report Property Set Aggregates add the before and after for any metric you track, such as weekly sales, margin, or SKU count.
- Why: RPS Properties put your own data beside every change, such as the sales rank of each item cut or the margin of each new item, and Breakdowns show how brand or category share shifted.
Comparisons work across any two planograms, not just two versions of the same set. Compare one store's version of a set against another's, or a regional variant against the national plan, to see exactly where they differ.
Starting a Comparison
- Open the planogram with your proposed changes.
- Open the panel from View → Compare.
- Click article Select Comparison POG and choose the plan to compare against, usually the previous version of the set.
The plan you choose is treated as the previous version, and your open plan as the current one. Use swap_horiz to swap them, or to compare against a different plan.
The buttons under the plan names toggle what the panel shows:
- palette colors the differences on both plans: added and changed items on your open plan, removed items on the preview of the previous plan.
- image shows or hides the previous plan's preview.
- grid_on shows or hides the Added, Removed, and Changed tables.
- description shows or hides the report options and exports.
Reading a Comparison
Added Positions are in your plan but not the previous one: new items, line extensions, and anything cut in.
Removed Positions were in the previous plan but are gone from yours: delists and anything cut out to make room. They are colored on the previous plan, since that is where they still exist.
Changed Positions are in both plans at the same location but differ in some way, such as facings, orientation, or merchandising style. The Change(s) column (Details in the PDF) says what changed, for example 1 → 3 facings.
Click any row to jump to that Position. Removed rows are highlighted in the previous plan's preview. Positions are matched between the two plans by their Location ID.
Backing Changes with Data
Choose a Report Property Set from the Choose RPS dropdown to bring your own data into the comparison. Use visibility to pick which of its Properties, Aggregates, and Breakdowns to include.
Properties
Each Property becomes a column in the tables and in the exports, evaluated for every added, removed, and changed Position. This is where a comparison earns its keep in a line review: put sales, margin, or a performance rank beside each change, and every cut and cut-in comes with its reason attached.
Aggregates
Click calculate to compare the RPS Aggregates between the two plans. Each row shows the previous value, the current value, and the difference, with increases in green and decreases in red. Totals like weekly sales, linear feet, or SKU count summarize the whole reset in a few lines.
Breakdowns
Click bar_chart to compare Breakdowns, which segment the plan by a field such as Brand, Category, or Supplier. Each Breakdown shows a doughnut chart for each plan and a table of each segment's share before and after. It is the clearest way to show a shift in space, such as private label gaining share or a brand being consolidated.
The Comparison Report
Click download PDF to export a presentation-ready report, built to be read without the app in front of you. Send it to a buyer, a supplier, or a store team, whether or not they use GoPlanogram.
- Page one opens with the totals: Positions added, removed, and changed, and total facings before and after. Below them are both plans side by side or stacked, whichever shows them larger, drawn at the same scale so the same shelf is the same size in each.
- Next come your Aggregates, if any are selected, then a table each for Added, Removed, and Changed Positions. Each table is in shelf order, with product images and any RPS Properties. Removed Positions show where they sat in the previous plan.
- Finally, each selected Breakdown gets its own page with both charts and the share table.
Every page carries the report header, with the names of both plans.
Click download XLSX for the same data as a spreadsheet, ready to sort, filter, or feed into your own analysis: the Added, Removed, and Changed tables with their RPS Properties, plus the Aggregates. Breakdowns are not included in the spreadsheet.
Making Comparisons Persuasive
- Turn product images on. Unchanged items keep their packaging, so the colored changes stand out against a shelf that looks like the real thing.
- Add Labels such as price or sales to the plans, so the images carry numbers as well as colors.
- Lead with the why. An RPS with a sales or margin Property turns the Removed table from a list of casualties into a list of underperformers.
- Pick the right baseline. Compare against what is on the shelf today, or what the buyer approved last, rather than an earlier draft of your own.
