Weekly
Write descriptions for products that lack them
Products with missing or very short descriptions get a new description, and you get a list of what changed.
- Runs
- Weekly
- Apps
- Shopify
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- read_products, write_products
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Monday, find Shopify products with descriptions under 50 words, write a clear, search-friendly description for each, save it to the product and email me what changed.
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Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Thin product descriptions are costly in a Shopify store. A listing with one line of text, or none, gives shoppers little reason to buy and gives search engines nothing to match to queries. The problem usually builds up unnoticed: a supplier imports two hundred items with only a title, or the owner adds new products in a hurry. Writing proper descriptions for every one is a long, dull task that keeps being postponed while the weak pages keep losing sales.
Every week the automation queries your Shopify products, filters those whose description HTML is missing or short, and has ClickRuntime's built-in AI write a draft from the product's title, type, tags and vendor. It updates the product and emails you a list of what changed. It is aimed at stores with a long tail of undescribed listings.
What you get out of it
Weak listings get fixed in bulk
Hundreds of thin descriptions can be improved over a few weeks without any one person spending days typing. The store's catalog looks more complete and trustworthy. Two hundred one-line imports can be improved over a few weeks without anyone typing for days.
Better chances in search results
A product page with real descriptive text matches more searches than one with a title only. More pages that can rank means more visitors without paying for traffic. A page with real descriptive text can match searches such as 'waterproof hiking backpack 30L' that a bare title never will.
Shoppers get the information they need
People hesitate to buy when they cannot tell what the product is. Even a short description of materials, use and size cuts the questions you receive and raises conversion. Shoppers stop asking about material and size by email when the page already says so.
A weekly list of what changed
The email lists each updated product, so you can review them and refine the ones that matter most. Nothing happens silently, and you can revert any description you dislike. You can open the weekly list, scan each rewrite and revert any description you dislike.
Consistent tone across the catalog
Descriptions follow the same style, so the store reads like one voice. Mixed supplier copy and hurried notes make a store look disorganized, and a consistent style helps it look established.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Once a week, the automation goes through the products in your Shopify store.
It picks out the ones with a missing or very short description.
AI writes a new description for each one from the product's details.
The new descriptions are saved on the products, and you get an email listing which ones changed.
Before it runs live
- Connect Shopify
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
- Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Shopify steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
import re
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai, notify
STORE = "your-store.myshopify.com"
def gql(query, variables=None):
resp = http.post(f"https://{STORE}/admin/api/2025-07/graphql.json",
headers={"X-Shopify-Access-Token": credentials.connection("shopify", "store")},
json={"query": query, "variables": variables or {}})
resp.raise_for_status()
return resp.json()["data"]
@on_trigger
def run(event):
products = gql("{ products(first: 100) { nodes { id title productType tags descriptionHtml } } }")["products"]["nodes"]
thin = [p for p in products if len(re.sub(r"<[^>]+>", " ", p["descriptionHtml"]).split()) < 50][:10]
changed = []
for p in thin:
html = ai.generate(f"Product: {p['title']}\nType: {p['productType']}\nTags: {', '.join(p['tags'])}\n"
f"Current: {p['descriptionHtml'][:1000]}", max_output_tokens=500,
system="Write a clear, search-friendly product description of 80-150 words as simple HTML paragraphs.").text
gql("mutation($p: ProductUpdateInput!) { productUpdate(product: $p) { userErrors { message } } }",
{"p": {"id": p["id"], "descriptionHtml": html}})
changed.append(p["title"])
if changed:
notify.email_me(f"Rewrote {len(changed)} product descriptions", "\n".join(f"• {t}" for t in changed))
return {"updated": len(changed)}FAQ
Common questions
What counts as a short description?
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