A merchant wants to create separate product pages for the same item (e.g., a unisex bracelet) with different imagery for men’s and women’s collections, while maintaining synchronized inventory across both listings. This also applies to scenarios where products are sold individually and as part of bundles.
Proposed Solutions:
Collection-based image display: Configure Shopify to show different primary images based on which collection is being browsed, keeping a single product page with shared inventory.
SKU synchronization apps: Use inventory management apps (Mechanic, BundleSync, Bundle Kit) to create separate product listings that sync inventory through shared SKUs. These apps can handle bundle scenarios by updating component stock levels when bundles are purchased.
Advanced customization: Implement frontend customizations using image alt text or metafields to display collection-specific images, or use themes with built-in “variant image sets” features.
Key Limitation:
Shopify doesn’t natively support shared inventory across separate product pages, requiring third-party apps or custom development to achieve this functionality.
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I want different product pages for the same item but combined inventories.
For example a bracelet that is suitable for men and women, i want within the male section of the website, the product imagery to be worn by a man, and likewise in the womens part of the website, worn by a woman. But if an order is placed, the inventory to remain up to date for both as it is essentially 1 item.
Another more obvious example would be, if i was to offer the product individually, and also as part of a bundle, how would the singular inventory update if someone purchased the bundle? perhaps a solution to this could prove useful.
Hope that makes sense and very grateful for any suggestions.
How can Shopify/the browser know if the visitor is in the men’s section or the women’s section? Are you using different collections for the same items?
Sure this seems like a good solution. But the optimal would be to have two product pages, with one combined inventory (if possible?). With your proposed solution it would mean one product page showing both men and women wearing the product. Whereas ideally I’d like them both separate. But your solution could be a good compromise, how would I do this?
For the frontend with one single item, it’s an advanced customization to present different images based on what collection the product is being viewed within, or the product handle url pulling in a the specific product (i.e. products/bracelet-womans & products/bracelet-mens pull info from /products/bracelet).
Either using image alt text to relate the proper images, or metafield definitions.
This is tangential to the view images for a specific variant customization
What you can do in this is make one of the product listings your main stock control SKU and then you bundle the second one against the first. So you now have 2 separate listings that you can design whatever way you want as separate products but the inventory is controlled for both.
Our app has 2 main features that let you set this up and manage your inventory correctly.
1. Inventory Management
Bundleup lets you connect up your product to components and it then updates the inventory based on the component stock level. So in your case you would bundle the secondary product against the main one. If the inventory of the main SKU falls we recalculate the bundle to match it.
2. Order Fulfilment
When you sell one of the secondary items (bundle) the stock level of the main SKU won’t reduce automatically. What Bundleup does is update the order post purchase by replacing the order line with the component SKUs as order lines which then reduces stock. This then feeds into point 1 above where it updates all linked products.
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Our app is able to meet your needs as it is primarily a bundle inventory management system so it will also be able to track the SKUs for variants of each product.
The bundle inventory is automatically set based on the available inventories of the bundle item(s), including the inventories of the variants. Proper quantity will also be taken out of the inventory of each bundle that is being purchased.
This also means that the inventory for the bracelet is tracked whether it’s bought individually or bought from a bundle.
I totally get what you’re trying to do, it makes sense to want separate product pages with different images (like a bracelet shown on a man and woman separately) while keeping inventory synced since it’s the same product.
Unfortunately, Shopify doesn’t allow this kind of shared inventory out of the box. But the good news is that there are apps that can help!
One such is the Shopify Variants shared Inventory app, it’s ideal for stores that offer the same item in different collections or under different branding.