Started paying off the Bloomingdale’s furniture

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The living room furniture I bought at Bloomingdale’s, using their store credit card, consists of two items. One piece has recliners and the other does not. The two pieces are shown separately on the credit card statement, each one with its own price. I got 36-month 0% financing on both pieces. It says if I pay $116 a month I should pay off the furniture in 36 months, without being charged any interest. That’s not exactly true as that would make my total $4176. My total balance is actually $4190.02. I guess my last payment would need to be slightly higher, which is okay. The difference is not that much. I looked at my online account the other day and noticed that my first payment, which I made last month, went toward only the furniture piece with the recliners as that balance has decreased. The balance of the other piece was not reduced. Unless I’m wrong, it seems like the payments I make are going to go toward the more expensive item first (the one with recliners), and then once that’s paid off, the remaining payments will go toward the other item. I wonder why that is. I thought my total balance would just decrease by what I paid and wouldn’t be applied to a specific item. Regardless, as long as I pay $116 a month (and a little more in one payment) I should pay everything off in 36 months.