As of 13 August 2026, AI can write product descriptions for your UK online shop.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsA human ecommerce copywriter is the alternative, but no comparable price is supplied here.

If this goes wrong: an inaccurate or exaggerated description misleads shoppers, creates returns and leaves your shop responsible for correcting the listing.

What to actually do

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.
Use a tool built for this
Second choice

Do it yourself

The distant third

A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

How to actually do it

Open your current product catalogue, supplier specifications, packaging and approved brand guidance, then gather the product name, features, materials, measurements, care instructions, warnings and permitted claims.
Create one source note for each product and remove any fact you cannot confirm from your own records or an approved supplier document.
Paste the prompt into a chatbot and replace every bracketed slot with the product facts, desired lengths, tone and shop wording.
Ask for one product at a time until the format and tone match your shop, then reuse the same checked prompt for the rest of the catalogue.
Compare every drafted feature, measurement, material, warning, availability statement and benefit against the source note and delete anything unsupported.
Paste the checked copy into a preview of the product page and check the title, bullet points, price wording, mobile layout and calls to action before publishing.

Prompt

Write a product description for my UK online shop using only the approved facts below. Invent nothing and do not infer features, measurements, materials, certifications, performance, availability or suitability. If a useful detail is missing, mark it as [NEEDS CONFIRMING] rather than guessing. Use British English and a clear, specific tone. Avoid empty adjectives, exaggerated claims, health claims, environmental claims and phrases such as 'best', 'guaranteed' or 'perfect' unless they appear in the approved facts. Do not mention SEO or AI in the finished copy.

Return:
1. A product title of no more than [TITLE WORD LIMIT] words.
2. A short description of [SHORT DESCRIPTION LENGTH] words.
3. A longer description of [LONG DESCRIPTION LENGTH] words.
4. [NUMBER] bullet points covering the most useful verified features.
5. A plain list of any claims or details that need checking before publication.

Shop and product information:
Brand voice: [BRAND VOICE]
Target customer: [TARGET CUSTOMER]
Product name: [PRODUCT NAME]
Product type: [PRODUCT TYPE]
Approved features: [APPROVED FEATURES]
Materials and composition: [MATERIALS]
Dimensions and weight: [DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT]
Colour and variations: [COLOUR AND VARIATIONS]
How it is used: [USE INFORMATION]
Care instructions: [CARE INSTRUCTIONS]
Warnings or restrictions: [WARNINGS]
Price and availability wording: [PRICE AND AVAILABILITY]
Approved differentiators: [APPROVED DIFFERENTIATORS]
Words or claims to avoid: [WORDS OR CLAIMS TO AVOID]

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

What it gets wrong

AI cannot know whether a product claim is legally supportable unless you provide an approved source and check the wording yourself.
AI cannot decide which genuine product difference matters most to your customers or fits your brand positioning.
AI cannot replace product knowledge when the supplied specifications are incomplete, contradictory or ambiguous.
AI often turns a small feature into a broad benefit, so the final copy still needs comparison with your catalogue and packaging.
AI cannot take responsibility for misleading wording, customer complaints, returns or regulatory consequences.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: legal accountability, judgement under ambiguity and context depth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

Axis	Score (0–2)
Output	2
Inputs	2
Verification	2
Liability	1
Effort delta	2
Total	9 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT write product descriptions for my online shop?: Yes. Give it verified product facts, a clear brand tone and a required format, and it can produce usable descriptions and bullet points. Check every claim against your catalogue before publishing.
Can AI write product descriptions that are good for SEO?: Yes, it can place relevant search terms naturally and structure headings and copy clearly. It cannot know which search terms fit your customers or guarantee rankings, so keep the wording useful rather than forcing keywords into it.
Is it legal to use AI product descriptions in the UK?: Using AI to draft the copy is not the main issue. You are still responsible for descriptions that mislead customers or make unsupported claims, so check product details, prices, availability, warnings and any regulated or environmental wording before publication.
How do I stop AI making up product features?: Give it an approved fact sheet and tell it to mark missing information instead of guessing. Compare the finished description with your current specifications and remove every claim you cannot verify.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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