Product copy and catalogs with AI
Aglyn AI is in beta. It is available today on every plan that includes it, and it is still changing as we improve it. Beta means you can use it now, while what it builds and the steps on this page may still change.
Aglyn AI can write the copy for your products and help you set up a store. Everything it does is a proposal: you review it, and nothing is saved to your catalog until you apply it. A proposed product comes with a suggested price you can change, and it never publishes a product.
Write a product's copy
In the product editor, under the description, tags and categories, Write with AI writes a proposal from what the product already says and shows:
- Give the product a name. Its current text, tags, options and first photo help, but none of them is required.
- Press Write copy.
- Review the proposal: a description, a search title and search description with their lengths, tags, the categories it fits from the ones your store has, and clearer option names where yours are unclear.
- Press Put in the fields, check the fields, and press Save product.
Renaming an option this way keeps every variant with its price, SKU and stock.
The copy is written only from your product. Where a shopper would need a fact the product does not give, such as a material or a size, the description marks it in square brackets, like [material], and the proposal lists what to fill in before you save.
Write copy for many products
On the products page, Build your catalog with AI has Write copy for products. Pick up to 50 products and press Write copy. The picker offers the page of products the products table is showing, so filter, search or page that table first to reach others. With no products listed — a new catalog, or filters that match nothing — the button is grayed out and says why: add a product, draft some with Propose products, or clear the filters. The copy is written one product at a time, and each row appears in the review table as it is ready.
- Apply saves one product's copy. Apply to all saves every row still waiting.
- Applying changes only the description, search listing, tags, categories and option names. A price, stock count or anything else changed since the table loaded is kept.
- A product that was deleted, or whose copy could not be held to the rules below, is marked Skipped and the rest carry on.
- If your AI credits run out partway, the job waits and carries on from the product where it stopped once credits are available.
When you import products
In the Import products (CSV) dialog, tick Write descriptions, search listings and tags with AI as they land. Once the import has created your products, their copy is written as above and waits in the review table on the products page. Copy is written for the first 50 products of a larger import.
Propose a first catalog
On the products page, press Create with AI beside Add product (and beside Add your first product while the catalog is empty), or Propose products in Build your catalog with AI — both open the same brief. Propose products takes a brief, such as "a candle studio: hand-poured soy candles in 8 oz and 16 oz jars, and wax melts", and proposes up to twelve products, usually six or more unless your brief says how many: each with a name, type, description, tags, options, a search listing, a sentence saying what its photo should show, and a suggested price for that kind of product, such as about $8–12 for a bar of handmade soap or $30–45 for a gift set.
Review the table, untick any you do not want, and press Create drafts. Each product is created as a draft:
- It starts at its suggested price on every variant (the table shows it), or at a default price where none was suggested, for you to change in the product editor. You may clear a price on purpose: the product still saves, the table marks it Set a price, and your storefront shows Price coming soon with no way to buy it until it has one again.
- It has no photo, and the table marks it Needs a photo with the suggested shot. Nothing is uploaded or linked for you.
- Nothing is on your storefront until you set it to Active.
A proposed product with the same name as one already in your catalog is left out.
Propose categories and discounts
Propose categories and discounts takes a brief and proposes store categories and up to five discounts, each with a sentence saying why it suits your store. A discount is a percentage off, an amount off or free shipping, with an optional minimum order and a code or no code.
Untick what you do not want and press Create selected. Categories appear in your catalog straight away. Discounts are created switched off: a shopper sees none until you switch it on under Promotions. A category or discount your store already has is left as it is.
What the copy never says
Every proposal is checked before you see it, and a proposal that breaks a rule is written again or not shown:
- No health claims, such as a product that cures, treats or prevents a condition, or is clinically proven or doctor recommended.
- No financial or legal promises, such as guaranteed returns, income, or legal compliance.
- No certification, award or endorsement your own product text does not state. If your text says certified organic, the copy may say so too.
- No prices in the text you did not give (a proposed product's suggested price is a field of its own, never in its copy), and no links, emoji or formatting marks.
The rules help, but you are still the publisher: read the copy before you apply it.
What is sent to the AI provider
To write a product's copy, the product's name, type, current text, tags, options and current search listing are sent, with your store's name and the names of your store's categories. For a proposal from a brief, your brief and your store's name are sent, and for categories, the names of the categories you already have.
A product's first photo is sent only when it is in your site's or organization's media library, and only as a smaller copy: at most 768 pixels on its longer side, saved fresh as a JPEG, without the original file's details such as the camera or the location it was taken. Nothing else from your media library is sent: no other photo, file name, folder or description. A photo that is a link to another website is not sent at all. No price, stock count, order or customer is ever sent.
Who can use it
Products with AI needs the Generate with AI permission, a plan that includes commerce, and Commerce switched on for the site. Each request uses AI credits. See who can use AI assist.