Can I use Hydrogen to have 2 different website stores but with the same shopify store in the backend?

[felpsio]

Hi,

I'm wondering if I can have the following configuration with stores hosted on hydrogen:

Set 2 stores:

• one that sells products from category A, B, C and Z and that would be hosted on ABC.com
• one that sells products from category D, E, F and Z and that would be hosted on DEF.com

Being able to manage products, collections and orders from both domains in just one shopify store.

I can filter the products by category in the code. And would be much simpler to manage stock and settings if I could do everything from just one end. Is that possible or would I need to have multiple stores in the backend and each one have their own app?

[frehner]

We don't have native support for it with the Hydrogen channel; you would probably need to host your Hydrogen storefront somewhere else, but other than that I believe it would work.

[benjaminsehl]

Sorry to correct you here @frehner — but you can in fact do this natively through the Hydrogen channel. You can create multiple storefronts, then have a unique domain pointed at each (ABC.com & DEF.com). You can currently create up to 25 public storefronts each with their own domain.

You currently can't publish products to individual stores (i.e. when you publish to Hydrogen, that product is available to all Hydrogen stores), so as you mentioned, you'd have to filter that through code or by providing some logic like attaching tags to products/collections (e.g. storefront:ABC indicates which to put which on).

There are a couple other challenges, for instance notification emails would need to set up some conditional logic for (if brand = ABC, use this domain, if DEF, use this domain).

@felpsio — I'd be keen to chat through this with you in more detail and learn about your use case if you'd be interested in jumping on a call? I'm currently looking into this specific use case so it would be great to learn more.

[frehner]

Thanks for the correction!

[felpsio]

Hi @benjaminsehl, thanks for your help. I'm happy to know it can be much simpler than I expected :).

Yep, it would be nice to have a call about my use case. I just DMed you on twitter. Let me know if you prefer another way communication channel.

[cinghaman]

@benjaminsehl Thanks for that was looking into something similar, the issue is the checkout still would be same I am assuming so when someone buys from abc.com will the checkout show the logo/branding/url of abc.com domain and when someone buys from def.com will it show the def.com domain and its branding or it reverts to the default URL which was setup

[agoyal118]

I believe it is no longer possible to have two public hydrogen stores tied to a single shopify account.

[benjaminsehl]

It is (and this isn't a change), but you must be on Plus to have more than one storefront.

[ssyberg]

@benjaminsehl we're starting down the this path now, just wonder if there's any more details or best practices since this was last discussed? For product availability per storefront is the best practice to use a product metafield or tag or something?