---
title: "Adding a PrestaShop 1.5 Manufacturer Description"
description: "After you have added a new product manufacturer in PrestaShop 1.5, and can then added a description for your manufacturer. This description will show to your users when they are browsing products..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/prestashop/manufacturer-description/
date: 2012-08-22
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Prestashop"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Adding a PrestaShop 1.5 Manufacturer Description

After you have [added a new product manufacturer](/support/edu/prestashop/adding-a-manufacturer/) in PrestaShop 1.5, and can then added a **description** for your manufacturer. This description will show to your users when they are browsing products based on the manufacturer.

**To modify your Manufacturer Description in PrestaShop 1.5:**

1. [Log into your PrestaShop 1.5 Dashboard](/support/edu/prestashop/login-to-dashboard/)
2. In the top menu, hover over **Catalog** and click **Manufacturers**
3. Within the list of manufacturers on the page, **click the edit button** (pencil icon) to the far rights of the manufacturer
4. Next to **Short description**, enter a small and to the point description about the manufacturer. Next to **Description**, enter more details about your manufacturer.
5. When finished typing in your manufacturer descriptions, click the **Save** button in the top right menu. In our testing, we entered the following descriptions for the *Apple Computer, Inc* manufacturer: Short description This is the short description for the Apple Manufacturer. Description This is the long description for the Apple Manufacturer. When users are browsing your products based on manufacturer, they will first see the **short description**. Under the *short description* is a link that says **More**. When users click the *more* link, the regular **description** will show. Short description Description [![manufacturer-short-description](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_prestashop1.5_add-product_manufacturer-short-description.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_prestashop1.5_add-product_manufacturer-short-description.gif) [![manufacturer-description](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_prestashop1.5_add-product_manufacturer-description.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_prestashop1.5_add-product_manufacturer-description.gif)