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title: "Adding a PrestaShop 1.5 Product Description"
description: "When adding a new product in PrestaShop 1.5, you have the option to add a product description. Naturally, this product information tells your customers all the details they want to know about the..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/prestashop/product-description/
date: 2012-08-21
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Prestashop"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Adding a PrestaShop 1.5 Product Description

When [adding a new product](/support/edu/prestashop/add-product/) in PrestaShop 1.5, you have the option to add a **product description**. Naturally, this product information tells your customers all the details they want to know about the product they’re looking at.

A product description is not required when adding a product. In this tutorial, we’ll show you have to add a new product description to an existing product.

**To add a product 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 **Products**
3. In the list of products, locate the product you want to edit. To the far right of the product, **click the edit icon** (*pencil icon*).
4. In the left menu, you will see several tabs listed. The tab you need to be on is the **Information** tab, which is the default tab. On this page, enter a **Short Description** and a **Description** for your product. PrestaShop 1.5 gives the following explanations to explain the difference between these two descriptions: Short Description Description appears in the product lists and on the top of the product page appears in the body of the product page After entering your descriptions, click the **Save** button in the top right menu. [![where-is-description](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_prestashop1.5_add-product_where-is-description.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_prestashop1.5_add-product_where-is-description.gif) As you can see in the screenshot above, the **Description** will show under the **More info** tab, while the **Short Description** shows next to the product’s image and under the **New Products** feature.