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Product descriptions for what you sell

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Problem it solves

The shelf has a product and the website has a blank. You need a plain description, not a slogan.

Best tool

  • ChatGPT (free chat)
  • Claude (free chat)
  • Gemini (free chat)
  • Copilot (free chat)

The free chat is enough for one draft. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and the free Microsoft Copilot chat can each do this. A paid plan only helps if you hit a usage limit. Copilot inside Word, Excel, or Outlook is a separate paid Microsoft 365 feature. You do not need it to try this once.

Copy-paste prompt

Write a product description under 60 words for each item. Include the material, the size, and the price if I gave them. Do not claim "best" or a health benefit. Do not invent a detail.

Shop: [name]
Items: [name, material or contents, size, price, and one true detail]

Replace every [bracket]. If you cannot fill one, delete that line.

Template

[product name]
[one or two sentences: what it is, material or contents, size]
Price: [price]
[shop name]

Download saves a .txt file. product-description.txt

Example output

A usable draft is one short paragraph per item, and a shopper could check every claim against the product in your hand.

Tips

  • The retail guide suggests starting with descriptions for products you already sell. It says twenty as an example of a pile, not a result.
  • If you do not know the material, leave it out. Do not guess a fabric.

Time saved

Estimate: a handful of descriptions is a short editing session. A whole catalog is as long as the catalog. This is not a measured hours-saved figure.

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt. Copy the prompt on this page into a free chat.
  2. Fill every bracket. Replace each [bracket] with a fact from your own notes. If you cannot fill one, delete that line instead of guessing.
  3. Edit before you use it. Read the draft against your notes. Delete any price, date, name, or promise you did not supply. You decide what gets sent.

Also written on this site

Quoted from another page on this site. If a quote names a time, that figure is an estimate, not a measured result.

Have AI draft descriptions for your 20 best-selling products, then edit them in your own voice.

Where this came from

  • Original to this library. The retail guide describes drafting descriptions as a first step.