General Settings
ChatGPT AI Content Generator: AI Product Descriptions is an Ecwid app that lets you create compelling product descriptions, meta titles, and meta descriptions for products and collections using the power of ChatGPT.
Before you start generating, we recommend configuring the application to set your preferences. To do this, click the three horizontal lines in the top-left corner of the page to open the menu, then select Settings:
Preview before publishing - enable the preview functionality to review the generated content during mass action before publishing.
Generation strategy - select the generation strategy that is used when an error occurs with the overloaded OpenAI service.
Model - choose the language model that best suits your needs:
GPT-4o (recommended) - an advanced and highly intelligent multimodal model ideal for complex tasks.
GPT-4o mini - a smaller, intelligent model suitable for simpler tasks.
Length - the setting controls how long the generated text will be.
- Short
- Standard (not available for categories)
- Long (not available for categories)
Temperature - temperature influences the randomness and creativity of the generated text, where higher values (e.g., 0.8) make it more unpredictable and lower values (e.g., 0.2) make it more focused and deterministic.
- Higher Temperature: Setting a higher temperature, such as 0.8 or 1.0, makes the output more random and creative.
- Lower Temperature: Setting a lower temperature, such as 0.2 or 0.5, makes the output more focused and deterministic
Tone - tone refers to the desired emotional or stylistic tone of the generated text.
Language - the specified language will be used for text generation.
Format - choose generated description format.
- By selecting the "Plain text" option, the content generator will produce unformatted text without any styling or markup. This simple text format does not include styles, fonts, or external elements.
- By selecting the "HTML" option, the content generator will create text that adheres to the HTML markup language. This enables the creation of structured content, including headings, paragraphs, lists, links, images, and other web page elements.
Note: these settings are the basis for the content generation, both for individual content and bulk content generation. However, item-specific settings will override the general settings for that item.
Once you've configured the settings, go to Products or Categories to generate content for individual items or in bulk.
Note: you have 50 free credits for content generation. Here’s how credit usage is calculated for generation:
1 product description = 1 credit
1 SEO = 2 credits (1 for SEO title and 1 for SEO description)
1 refine = 2 credits
Products content generation
The grid provides sorting, searching, and filtering by status functionality for a better user experience.
You can generate content in bulk by selecting the products you want to update and clicking the desired action button:
- Generate Description
- Generate SEO (meta title and meta description)
- Refine (improve the current description)
- Generate with Custom Prompt (use your own prompt for description generation)
When using a custom prompt, make sure to use the global.input variable. You can find and copy it by going to Prompts > Add New Prompt in the app’s admin panel. This step ensures that ChatGPT accesses information about your product from your product settings. If you're looking for ideas for custom prompts, check out our blog post.
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Stop generation - click the button to instantly cease mass generation whenever required.
You can also generate content for each product individually for a more tailored experience.
For it, open a product you want to generate content for.
There are two columns:
In the left column you can Generate Product Description, SEO Title and SEO Description. If you already have a description, you can Refine it to make the required grammatical, syntactical, and lexical improvements. To add your own instructions for generating a product description, click Custom Prompt.
The right column allows you to customize settings for this product to use during content generation. You can specify the product type, brand, keywords (suggested or custom), add additional information, and more. You can also include or exclude product variants (if applicable). If you don’t need custom settings, just skip it — general settings will be applied by default.
After receiving the content, it can be regenerated, edited (using an advanced HTML editor) or published.
Categories content generation
To generate content for your categories, open the Category customization page from the menu. Open category you want to generate content for.
Same as for products, there are two columns:
In the left column you can Generate Category Description, SEO Title and SEO Description. If you already have a description, you can Refine it to make the required grammatical, syntactical, and lexical improvements. To add your own instructions for generating a category description, click Custom Prompt.
The right column allows you to customize settings for this category to use during content generation. If you don’t need custom settings, just skip it — general settings will be applied by default.
After receiving the content, it can be regenerated, edited (using an advanced HTML editor) or published.
Custom Prompt Templates
If you prefer using your own instructions, create custom prompt templates on the Prompts page to streamline content generation with reusable prompts.
To create a new template, just click the Add new prompt button.
Give your custom prompt a title, select whether it’s for a product or category, and click Create. You’ll be taken to the prompt creation page, where you can add your prompt text.
Pro Tip: Use available variables to enhance your prompt — they will pull information from the specific product or category to personalize the content. Make sure to use the global.input variable to ensure that ChatGPT accesses information about your product from your product settings.
Note:
Default prompt templates are not editable. Please use the Duplicate function to create a new template and make the necessary changes.
When generating content for an item, select the Custom prompt button and choose the appropriate template from the dropdown. If you're looking for ideas for custom prompts, check out our blog post.
History
Visit the History page to view the timeline of your generation history. The search is conducted based on the generated content rather than the object for which the generation was performed. The history grid is sorted into generation history and publication history. It allows you to effortlessly revert all publications back to their original versions.
Restore - the feature helps recover previous versions of any content if needed. The option is available in the Published History section.
Note:
To ensure content isn't published without your approval, go to the Settings page and enable Preview before publishing. This way, during bulk content generation, you can review and choose what to publish directly from the preview window.
Pricing plans
When selecting a tariff plan, you will have a certain number of credits that will be deducted first. If you need additional credits for content generation, you can purchase them anytime.
Subscription credits do not expire.
Note: There is no need for additional confirmation from the customer to buy extra credits.
