Different SKUs per store in Magento

Question

If I wish to get functionality of different SKUs per store for a particular product, what do I have to do?

Say that I have different stores, like men's shoes.com and women's shoes.com, in which the same product (CN Clogs Beach/Garden Clog) is present in each store.

Now, I want to define the SKU in the men's store as mens_shoes_cnclog, and in the women's store as womens_shoes_cnclog. Here I'm handling one website, and two stores. So, how can I define different skus based on store name?

I have tried to override the saveAction() method of Catalog_ProductController, in which I can easily get the website code, but I want store-wise SKUs so that, in search engines, they will be considered two different products.

TIA

Answer 1

If this is the same backend product, one sku should be used to track it. That said, I understand that you may have some conflicting requirements as such. The only way I can think of to accomplish this without completely ruining the backend of the system is to create a field for a "frontend sku", which would be used to display to customers on a per-store basis. You would need to replace references in the frontend with the per-store sku, and would still see the real sku in the backend.