How can I make a second product page in the same store?

Question

I've gotten a request to allow for duplicate product pages in a store. They have many reasons for doing this. The main reason, I believe, is for email and marketing targeting.

So they would like to have one product page, i.e. "store.com/product-page", that is the regular page. Shows up in search, category pages, etc. But then there would be another page, i.e. "store.com/marketing/product-page", that would show the same product, except maybe add a block with coupon information.

I've tried a number of different approaches, including adding the product to a new category with a different design, and trying to recreate the product page as a CMS page. I feel like I'm overthinking it and there is a simple solution to this problem. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I believe you could have 1 product and just have multiple category pages and associate the product with those pages and then you can add your widgets etc.. to the category page.

Answer 2

OK, we have figured something out that will work. According to Magento support this is expected behavior. Product pages with unique designs are meant to be clicked to from the category page. So they don't display the custom design unless they come from that category page link.

However, we have found a way around that restriction. You can direct link to a product and get the custom design by attaching a querystring variable to the URL for the category ID. So your final link would look something like this:

store.com/newdesign/shirt?category=101