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title: "Short description"
url: "https://support.acendy.com/en/article/short-description"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-04-14T10:01:37.444Z"
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# Short description

## Short description

This feature allows you to give customers a preview of what your product offers, right at the top of the page. By writing a short and catchy description, you can capture customers' interest and encourage them to learn more.

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### How does it work?

**Write a brief description:** When you edit a product, you will find a field for "Brief description". Here you can write a text that provides a quick overview of the product's main features and benefits.

**"Read more" button:** You choose where you want to place the brief description, but it is most common to display it at the top of the product page, along with a button that says "Read more".

**Full description:** When the customer clicks on "Read more", the entire regular product description will be displayed.

### Why is this useful?

**Captures attention:** A short and concise description can be more effective than a long text when it comes to capturing customers' attention.

**Better user experience:** Customers quickly get an impression of the product and can choose whether they want to read more or not.

**Increased sales:** By highlighting the main benefits of the product, you can increase the likelihood of customers adding it to the shopping cart.

## Settings

In the design builder, you must add a separate block on the product page to display the brief description.  
*This block can be found in the "Product purchase" section.*

The block has the following settings that make it easy to configure the appearance and behavior as desired:

**Display of the read more button:** When active, a "Read more" link is displayed that takes the customer to the regular complete product description, which is often placed further down the page.

**Color of the link:** Specify the color of the "Read more" link.

**Font size:** Change the size of the brief description.

**Font weight:** Change the thickness of the font in the brief description.

**Advanced settings:** Under advanced settings you will find options for margin, which allows you to adjust the distance to the blocks above/below.

#### Fallback method

Here you can choose what should be displayed \*if\* the product does not have a brief description defined.

**None:** No description is displayed in the brief description field, and the customer must scroll down to the regular product description.

**Standard description:** If a brief description is missing, the standard description will be displayed in the field. Note that this can make for a lot of space in the field where the brief description is normally displayed. It is therefore recommended to use option 1, "None".