Separate Gendered Product Pages with Shared Inventory

Hi all,

We’re building a Shopify store that sells vintage clothing for both women and men. Each item is a single physical product, but we want to display it as two separate product pages with different content depending on the customer’s path.

For example:

  • One page for men’s sizing, size chart, and variants
  • One page for women’s sizing, size chart, and variants

Both should pull from the same inventory and refer to the same product record in the backend, but each version needs its own URL so it can be linked separately in the Men’s or Women’s collections.

A reference example is from Jaded London:

We’ve already added a custom.category metafield (mens/womens) and can use that for conditional content on the product page. I’m assuming this would need to be handled with if statements since Shopify only allows one template per product.

The challenge is: we have over 3,000 products, so duplicating every product and manually syncing inventory isn’t realistic.

What I’m trying to figure out:

  • Is there a way to create two product URLs that show different content but sync inventory?
  • Would this be done with alternate routing and metafield conditions?
  • Or is a third-party app required to manage this properly?

Thanks in advance for any ideas, suggestions, or examples.

Kristen

How about just passing ?view=womens-template and ?view=mens-template based on the collection in the product cards URLs? This then allows you to use different templates.