Product information

How to edit product information in your product pages

Up-to-date, detailed, and helpful product information provides major key benefits:

Informed Decisions: Helps customers make well-informed purchasing decisions by providing detailed descriptions, specifications, and usage instructions.
Enhanced Trust: Builds trust and credibility by offering transparency about the product’s features, benefits, and potential drawbacks.
Reduced Returns: Minimizes returns and dissatisfaction by setting clear expectations and ensuring customers understand what they are buying.
SEO Benefits: Improves search engine rankings and visibility through detailed and keyword-rich product descriptions.
Customer Support: Reduces the need for extensive customer support by answering common questions and providing all necessary information upfront.

How to add a Product information section

Steps

In the theme editor (Customize), open the template selector.
Select Products, then Default product.
On the left-sidebar, add Product information.
Make necessary changes > Save.

How to customize your Product information section

This section provides essential product information - such as price, title, buy buttons, etc.

You can change the product information by re-ordering, removing, and adding more blocks.

General Settings

Container type, breadcrumbs, and sticky content on desktop

You can choose the container type as:

Full width
Fixed width
Stretched width

Layout

Make changes to the product media's layout.

To know more about media, see Product media.

You can also enable/disable image zoom and video looping to your product information section.

If you do not want to show the selected variant's image on the page load, enable the ✅ Show featured media by default checkbox to display the main image of a product on the product page.

Product Information blocks

The product information blocks including title, vendor, quantity selector, price, variant picker, etc. will be updated from the product page to display in this section.

You do not need to modify the content but can change these blocks' positions.

Product rating

Price

Show sale badge as Percentage/Text/ Fixed amount

Variant picker

Products with variants are great for giving customers more choices.

To learn about variants and how to add product variants, see Variants.

In the product information, you can enable show the selected option and choose picker type as a dropdown/ button.

Size chart

Add the Option name you want to display your size chart and select a page created in Shopify Pages.

Buy buttons

Enable/ disable the "Show dynamic checkout button" option to include a direct-to-checkout button.

The Add-to-cart button can be displayed if needed.

Product meta

Show/ hide the following product details:

availability
collections
SKU
product type
product vendor

Shipping information

Enable/ disable estimated delivery duration and shipping text.

Add other details if needed (delivery text, shipping time, and delivery note).

Add-on buttons

Enable/ disable the following add-on options:

Add to compare
Ask a question
Social sharing

Collapsible tab

Add a heading and extra information on the tabs.

You can also add content using custom liquid.

Custom field

Add text into the provided space for the field name, options, and placeholder.

You can control how this block displays as required or show it at the checkout.

For the field type, there are 3 options: single-line text, multi-line text, and select.

Trust badge

A badge or seal to instill trust in your potential customers.

Add a heading and image for the badge. You can control the image width and the heading position.

Complementary products

Complementary products are products often bought in addition to the selected product.

You can display complementary products to help customers discover new products and increase your online store sales. Learn more.

In the theme editor, you can add a Heading for the section and select an Icon from the list.

Set the maximum number of products to show (1-10 products) and the number of products per page (1-4 products).

You can enable the carousel effect for this section.

Inventory status

The inventory status block lets you display the stock status on individual product pages so that customers can know if a product is in stock, running low in stock, or when more stock arrives.

To show the Inventory status as in stock and low stock alerts on your product page, in Shopify products > Variants:

enable ✅ Track quantity;
disable Continue selling when out of stock.

In the product template, add Inventory status block > select the Low inventory threshold by tweaking the slider (between 0 and 20).

You can also show the low inventory alert as a progress bar.

To show inventory transfer notice, you need to create a inventory transfer. Below are the needed steps to display the inventory transfer notice on individual product pages.

Step 1: From your Shopify admin, go to Products > Transfers.

Step 2: Click Add transfer.

Step 3: In the Add products section, enter or select the products and variants that you want to add to the transfer, and then click Add to transfer.

Step 4: Under Quantity, enter the quantities for each product in the transfer.

Step 5: In the Shipment details section, enter a date in the Estimated arrival field.

Step 6: Save the settings.