FAQ: Generations & Data Enrichment

Have questions about our generations and data enrichment? You've come to the right place!

What is a generation?
How many products can I generate for on a paid plan?
Which products are activated in my current billing cycle?
How do I enrich my product data?
How many data enrichment credits do I have left?
Why would data enrichment fail?
How do I write product descriptions?
How can I see my bulk job history?
Why might a bulk generation fail, and how do I fix it?

What is a generation?

A generation is used when a product description or other content is generated for any product in your catalog(s), through either bulk or chat.

A generation is used any time a product description, title, bullet points, and/or keywords are generated per product.
A generation is used any time a meta description is generated per product.

How many products can I generate for on a paid plan?

Based on the plan you've selected, you can generate from anywhere between 50 to 500+ products every month! Check out this article to learn more about our paid plans.

Need to write for more products for a one-off project? Read more about our product power-up here.

Which products are activated in my current billing cycle?

Products are "activated" after you've created content for them for the first time. You will then have unlimited generations for these products through your current billing cycle!

Activated products have a green "infinity" icon on the product image, so you can easily identify them and run additional generations as needed.
Once you generate content to activate a product, it will then count towards your monthly plan limit. You can keep track of how many products are currently activated on the left sidebar.

How do I enrich my product data?

If you receive limited product information from manufacturers or suppliers, data enrichment can enhance your sparse data by pulling in detailed information from the web.

Learn more about this feature here.

How many data enrichment credits do I have left?

Paid subscribers have data enrichment credits for 10% of the number of products on their base plan. If you need more, our data enrichment power-up is for you!

Under the Usage section on the Home page, you will see a section for Used Data Enrichment. This will show you how many credits you've used out of your available monthly limit.

You will also see a message in Describely if you try to run data enrichment for more products that you have remaining credits.

Why would data enrichment fail?

If Describely is unable to match your product title and/or SKU with high quality data, you might see the product(s) data enrichment be unsuccessful.

If this happens, not to worry! We make it easy to quickly run a web search for these products individually:

Within the data enrichment job, click the failed product's title to be brought to its Product Details page.
On the top right, click the cloud icon to automatically open a Google search for your title and SKU (if available).

How do I write product descriptions?

Follow these steps to generate on-brand, SEO friendly product descriptions for multiple products at once.

How can I see my bulk job history?

Open your catalog and click Bulk Jobs Review on the top right.
This will open a log of your bulk jobs with their generated fields and current status.
Use the top toolbar to customize this view to your liking by filtering your bulk jobs, hiding columns, and more.
Click on a bulk job to review and approve newly generated content. Learn more about this process here.

Need to adjust how much content you see at a time? Try adjusting the toggle density feature on the top right until you find the view that works for you.

Why might a bulk generation fail, and how do I fix it?

When creating content in bulk, a generation might fail if there is not enough product data to ensure quality content is generated for a particular product.
If any product generations are expected to fail, you'll see an alert notifying you of the affected product(s) and how to resolve it with our data enrichment.
When you run a bulk job, products expected to fail will be skipped by default, but you can attempt to process them if you'd like.
If you'd prefer to manually enter more product information, click into each affected product and add more descriptive data to the title, description, bullet points, or keywords through the Product Details tab. Then, try to re-run bulk on these products.