Add description

Add description

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Adding a description

Access: Menu Administrator

The Description field lets you add more detailed information about an item. Unlike the Summary, it isn't shown on the Shop site straight away — families see it by clicking on the item's name (e.g. Sausage sizzle), which opens a pop-up with the item's full details.

Adding a description

  1. In the Item editor, select the category the item is in.
  2. Select the edit icon under Actions, next to the item you want to update (or create a new item).
  3. Under Details, select the Description field and start typing, or copy and paste text from another document. Use the toolbar to format your text — bold, italics, numbered or bulleted lists, and indenting are all available. 



  4. To add a hyperlink, highlight the text you want to turn into a link, then select the Link icon in the toolbar. 



  5. Enter the URL, then select the tick to save.

  6. To edit or remove a link later, select the linked text, then select the pencil icon to edit it or the unlink icon to remove it. 

  7. Once you're happy with your description, continue filling in the rest of the item's details. Select Save draft if you need to come back and finish it later, or Save & publish to apply your changes to the item.

Alert
If this is a newly created item or category, Save & publish here doesn't automatically make the description visible to families — the item still needs to be pulled forward with opening and closing dates in Service Manager. If the item's category is already part of an open service, Save & publish makes it live straight away. See Creating a new item for details.

How the description appears to families

On the Shop site, each item's card shows the item name, its Summary (if one's been added), the price and an Add to cart button. The Description isn't shown here.

To see the Description, a family selects the item's name (e.g. Sausage sizzle). This opens a pop-up showing the item name, price, the Summary line, a Description heading with the full description text, and — if the item has Choices or Options set up — an Options heading listing them. The family can select Add to cart directly from this pop-up, or Close to go back.