Two product families. Zero filler.

The flagship. Motorized power screens drop at the touch of a button — or on a schedule, or by voice through the customer's smart home — turning a patio, pergola, or garage opening into a bug-free, glare-free, private outdoor room. Then they retract and disappear into a slim cassette. It is the product with the highest wow factor in the lineup, and the one customers show their neighbors.

Screens solve the problems every homeowner already complains about: afternoon sun that makes the patio unusable, mosquitoes that end the evening early, and the fishbowl feeling of a patio the neighbors can see into. One product, three problems, one remote. That is why it closes — and why it carries the 15-year warranty alongside our awnings.

For dealers, screens are the gift that keeps selling: every installation is visible from the street, every neighbor asks about it, and every one of those conversations starts with “who did yours?” Your work becomes your advertising.

The premium awning. When retracted, the fabric and arms seal completely inside a full cassette housing — protected from weather, dust, and UV when not in use, and clean architectural lines when viewed from the street. Extended, it is classic European shade engineering: pitch-adjustable, wind-sensor-ready, and available with integrated LED lighting.

The cassette is the story that sells against cheaper open arms and fixed patio covers: nothing to deteriorate in the off-season, nothing to clean before the first barbecue of spring. Customers who have owned a bargain awning before understand the difference in thirty seconds — usually while touching the housing.

Full-cassette awnings carry the 15-year warranty on frames, hardware, motors, and fabric systems. It is the product for the customer who buys once and buys well — and those customers refer their friends.

The accessible entry point. Open-roll awnings deliver genuine retractable shade — same fabrics, same motors, same wind-sensor compatibility — without the full cassette housing. For the customer whose budget starts lower but whose taste does not, it is the honest answer: real retractable shade, American-made, with the same 15-year warranty backing it.

Dealers use the open-roll as the conversation starter that ends at the cassette: quote both, show both, and let the customer choose. A meaningful share choose the cassette once they see the difference — and the ones who choose open-roll become cassette buyers' neighbors, which is its own kind of marketing.

Every awning in the lineup — cassette or open-roll — is custom-built to the job's measurements. No stock sizes forced onto non-stock houses.

Every unit in the line is custom-built to the job's measurements — no stock sizes forced onto non-stock houses.

The options are where good jobs become great ones. Wind sensors that retract the awning before the gust arrives. LED lighting integrated into the arms for evenings that run long. Smart-home controls that tie screens and awnings into the scenes the customer already uses. These are not gimmicks — they are the features customers brag about, and they are the highest-margin lines on the quote.

The fabric library runs deep: hundreds of patterns and solids, solution-dyed for fade resistance, from classic stripes to contemporary textures. Customers choose in person, from real swatches, with your guidance — which is exactly the kind of premium buying experience that justifies premium pricing.

Training covers all of it: how the sensors calibrate, how the lighting wires, how the smart-home integrations pair. Your crew sells and installs with manufacturer fluency, not brochure knowledge.

Patio covers are not part of the dealer product lineup. The dealer program is built around retractable awnings and motorized power screens — the two categories with the 15-year warranty, the national demand, and the cleanest install model for partner crews. Keeping the line focused is what keeps training sharp, support fast, and your close rate high.

That focus is deliberate. A dealer who knows two product families cold outsells a dealer who sort-of knows six. Every tool in the program — the displays, the samples, the troubleshooting playbooks, the marketing photography — exists for these products and these products only.

Dealers sell AJ Shades products nationwide — product-only and wholesale, fulfilled by trusted local contractors. AJ Shades itself installs only in Southern California (San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties); we never promise installation outside that footprint, and we never ask our dealers to name contractors on our behalf. The dealer product line is the same product line everywhere: American-made, veteran-owned, and warranted for 15 years on awnings and motorized screens — whether the installation happens in San Diego or South Carolina.