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Yes - that's the plugin I'm referring to sorry for the confusion. I very possibly could be implementing things incorrectly, but what's happening is I can create "groups" which appear next to the WP roles in my users menu. When they sign up for a subscription on the site they are placed into a group, but given the role of subscriber no matter what group they are filtered into. Throughout the WP side I can use the different groups to limit content, but Simple:Press doesn't recognize these groups, only roles, and as everyone is filtered into the subscriber role I have no way to filter them on the Simple:Press side.

I understand that WP controls the roles.

As far as I know the plugins by Woocommerce and Groups are working as intended. Woocommerce tells wordpress which WP user-role a user gets upon purchasing a product on the site (I have this set to subscriber), the subscriptions plugin that Woocommerce uses works with the Groups plugin to assign a user to a group (created by the Groups plugin) based on the subscription that they are purchasing. So a user belongs to both a role and at least one, but possibility multiple, groups based on their purchases.

To answer your question more specifically. The Groups plugin does not appear that they create WP user roles. I'm not exactly sure how I'd confirm this, but when I navigate to the "users" menu in the WP admin I see the WP user roles Admin, Editor, Subscriber etc then next to all the roles are "Groups" that I've created using the plugin. There's the standard WP option to add/remove users to various roles AND a new option that allows manual addition/removal from the various Groups. 

Within the groups plugin I have the ability to apply any WP capability as well as create my own, but I haven't done anything here as of yet.

Yellow Swordfish said
Forum admin > User Groups > Map User to User Groups. Does your 'groups' appear in the list?

No. This is - I suppose - the route of the question I'm trying to ask.