As of 13 August 2026, AI can create a product catalogue from your stock list.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your stock system or spreadsheet and export the current stock list with SKUs, product names, variants, quantities, prices and units.
   2. Gather the current product specifications, image filenames or URLs, categories, delivery details and any wording or disclaimers that must appear.
   3. Paste the stock list and supporting information into a chatbot using the supplied prompt, asking it to keep missing values marked rather than guessed.
   4. Copy the generated catalogue into a new spreadsheet and compare every SKU, product name, variant, price, unit and quantity against the source stock list.
   5. Open the product records and image files for each item, then check the descriptions, measurements, materials, specifications, claims and image references against those records.
   6. Correct the spreadsheet and descriptions, remove any unchecked claims, and send the final catalogue to the person responsible for your website, shop system or printed material.

   Prompt

   Create a product catalogue from the stock data below.
   
   Stock data:
   [PASTE YOUR STOCK LIST HERE]
   
   Additional business rules:
   [PASTE YOUR PRICES, AVAILABILITY RULES, PRODUCT CATEGORIES, BRAND VOICE, DELIVERY INFORMATION AND ANY REQUIRED LEGAL OR PRODUCT DISCLAIMERS HERE]
   
   Produce:
   1. A clean table with SKU, product name, short description, category, price, currency, stock status, key specifications and image filename or URL where supplied.
   2. A longer product description for each item using only facts in the supplied data.
   3. A list of missing fields and unclear entries.
   4. A separate list called CHECK BEFORE PUBLISHING containing every claim, price, stock status, variant, measurement and image reference that I must verify.
   
   Rules:
   - Do not invent product facts, prices, stock levels, materials, dimensions, delivery times, certifications, benefits, reviews or images.
   - Preserve SKUs, product names, prices, units and stock quantities exactly unless you clearly label a proposed correction.
   - If a value is missing or ambiguous, write [MISSING] or [CHECK] rather than guessing.
   - Keep product descriptions plain, specific and suitable for a UK customer.
   - Do not merge products or variants unless the stock data explicitly says they are the same.
   - Return the catalogue in a format I can paste into a spreadsheet, followed by the descriptions and the checking list.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.