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Product

Update product description by product ID

📘 This API is part of the Seller Portal Catalog. This functionality is in the Beta stage and can be discontinued at any moment at VTEX's discretion. VTEX will not be responsible for any instabilities caused by its use or discontinuity. If you have any questions, please contact our Support Center.

Updates the description of a product given a product ID.

Permissions

Any user or API key must have at least one of the appropriate License Manager resources to be able to successfully run this request. Otherwise they will receive a status code 403 error. These are the applicable resources for this endpoint:

ProductCategoryResource
CatalogV2ManagementProduct Write

There are no applicable predefined roles for this resource list. You must create a custom role and add at least one of the resources above in order to use this endpoint.To learn more about machine authentication at VTEX, see Authentication overview.

❗ To prevent integrations from having excessive permissions, consider the best practices for managing API keys when assigning License Manager roles to integrations.

put/api/catalog-seller-portal/products/{productId}/description

Path parameters

productIdstring required
Example:71

Product unique identifier number.

Headers

Content-Typestring required
Example:application/json

Type of the content being sent.

Acceptstring required
Example:application/json

HTTP Client Negotiation Accept Header. Indicates the types of responses the client can understand.

Request body

productIdstring required

Product's unique identifier number.

descriptionstring required

Product description.

Example request

{
  "productId": "71",
  "description": "White shirt."
}

Response

No Content