Custom Description

With the Custom Description, you can personalize the look and feel of your eBay Listings.

Paste your custom description template in the Description Value field. Click Preview to check the results and see how the item will be displayed on eBay.

Use WYSIWYG or HTML mode to create a description. The Show/Hide Editor button switches between these modes. The Preview button shows how an item will be displayed on eBay.

WYSIWYG editor – precisely represents the appearance of the item description, that will be displayed on eBay.
HTML – allows using HTML tags and CSS styles to create a more advanced description design.

eBay does not permit using some types of HTML and JavaScript functions.
To find out more read eBay HTML and JavaScript policy, emails, and links policy.

Custom Description Inserts

Click Insert Customs to add Magento attributes and images to the Custom Description.

The Custom Insertions pop-up will appear.

Adding Attributes

Product Attribute – contains a list of all Magento attributes.

M2E Pro Attribute – list of M2E listing settings.

To add a Magento / M2E Pro attribute:

  1. Choose the attribute from the drop-down.

  2. Click Insert.

Attribute tag will be added in the #name_of_attribute# format to the end of the description text. You can cut it from the end or insert it in the appropriate place of the HTML template.

You can insert the URLs of Base Image along with 12 Gallery Images: only URLs (e.g. http://mymagento.com/media/catalog/product/image1.jpg) will be added into the Item Description, not an HTML code.

To insert the Gallery Image URLs into the Custom Description, the Gallery option under the Images section should be also enabled:

In case you set to insert the Gallery Image Url 10, but only 7 Gallery Images are available for your Product, the blank space will be added to the Item Description.

Adding Custom Static Blocks

You can add Custom Static Blocks to the description:

{{block id="static_block_code"}}

Adding Products Image(s)

The images are added according to the next rules:

Insert Image – allows choosing which image has to be added to the custom description. Configure the available Image settings: Position, Width, Height, Margin, Open Original Size in a New Window, Use Watermark.

The Sort Order column in the Magento product is not taken into consideration. The image is added according to the actual sort order.

The option is available in Custom Description only if it is enabled under the Images & Watermark section.

Insert Gallery – allows you to add up to 20 images into the description. Configure the available Image Gallery settings: Quantity, Displaying, Layout, Use Watermark.

- Custom Settings – images will be added according to the settings, you set: Image(s) Width, Image(s) Height, Image(s) Margin, Open original size image in a new window.

- Gallery View – allows quickly view images by clicking on the small thumbnails. Configure the available settings: Main Image Width, Main Image Hight, Gallery Hint.

- Horizontal – the images will be displayed in a row.

- Vertical – the images will be displayed in a column.

Gallery images added to the Custom Description are processed via HTML with CSS technology instead of JavaScript, which corresponds to eBay instructions.