Drafts and publishing

A draft is a styled version of a product description that LingoVae has generated but not yet published. Every styled description starts as a draft. You decide which drafts go live.

This page covers two surfaces: the per-product review page (every plan) and the review queue (Grow and above).

What’s in a draft

A draft is more than a block of text. It’s a structured frozen copy of every field LingoVae styled:

  • Title
  • Body HTML (the main product description, with formatting)
  • SEO title and SEO description
  • Variants (variant titles, on plans where this is enabled)
  • Custom metafields (on Pro and above, if configured)

Each field is independently approvable. You can publish the new body and SEO description while keeping your existing title, for example.

A draft also carries:

  • The style and the exact version of it that produced the draft
  • A confidence score (0–100) if quality scoring is enabled
  • A provenance (manual generation, bulk job, auto-style on create, or scheduled)
  • A timestamp and the user who triggered it

The per-product review page

Open any product from Products → [product] to land on the review page. You’ll see:

  • Original column (left): your current Shopify description, unchanged.
  • Draft columns (right): every draft generated for this product, side-by-side, scrollable.
  • Action bar (top): publish, discard, regenerate, revert.

If there are multiple drafts for one style, they’re stacked vertically — newest at the top — under that style’s column.

Editing a draft

Click any field in a draft to edit it. The body field opens a rich-text editor with the same formatting controls Shopify offers (bold, italic, headings, lists, links, images).

Images are preserved through the AI round-trip. If your original description has product images in specific positions, the styled draft will keep those images in those positions — the AI sees them as placeholders and writes around them.

Edits autosave as you type. There’s no “save” button on individual fields.

Publishing a draft

Click Publish on a field to push just that field to your storefront. Click Publish all to push the entire draft. Publishing is immediate; your storefront switches within a few seconds.

Published drafts get a green checkmark. Discarded drafts get a grey X. Both stay on the page indefinitely for reference — you can re-publish a previously-discarded draft, or revert from a published one back to a previous state.

Reverting a published draft

Above the draft columns, there’s a Revert to original button. Click it and your storefront switches back to your unmodified Shopify description. The draft you just reverted from doesn’t go away — it stays on the page, and you can re-publish it any time.

On the Pro plan, Revert to a specific version lets you roll back to any prior published version (see version history).

Multiple styles on one product

A product can have drafts from many different styles. The review page shows them all side by side. Only one draft can be “currently published” at a time — publishing a draft from a new style automatically supersedes the previously-published one.

The review queue (Grow plan and higher)

The review queue is your inbox for drafts generated by bulk jobs, schedules, and auto-styling. It’s not for one-off manual generations — those land on the per-product review page directly.

Open Review queue from the sidebar. You’ll see two sections:

  1. Batch cards at the top. One card per batch (bulk job or auto-style run). Each card shows the batch name, the style used, the count of products, and a confidence score summary.
  2. Individual drafts below. Drafts that didn’t come from a batch (e.g., scheduled regenerations) appear individually.

Batch review

Click a batch card to open its detail view. You’ll see every product in the batch listed, each with its draft and a confidence score. Sort by:

  • Confidence (lowest first) — review the riskiest drafts first.
  • Confidence (highest first) — fast-track the easy ones.
  • Product title — alphabetical.

At the top of the list, you have batch actions:

  • Publish all — pushes every draft in the batch to your storefront.
  • Publish all above [threshold] — type a number (default 80). Everything at or above publishes; everything below stays for review.
  • Discard all — marks every draft discarded. None publish.

Or walk the list product-by-product. Clicking a row opens the per-product review page in a side panel.

Auto-styled drafts

Drafts generated by auto-styling on create show up in the review queue with an Auto-styled badge. They behave like any other draft — publish, edit, discard — but the badge tells you the draft was generated unattended, so you might want to give it a closer look.

You can filter the review queue to show only auto-styled drafts via the Source filter at the top.

Stale drafts

A draft becomes stale if you edit the underlying product description in Shopify after the draft was generated. The original the AI styled is no longer the current original.

When you go to publish a stale draft, LingoVae shows a banner and three choices:

  • Regenerate — start over. The current original is sent to the AI; you get a fresh draft. Costs one transformation.
  • Apply anyway — publish the stale draft. The styled version may not reflect your most recent changes.
  • Skip — leave the draft as-is; come back later.

Stale-detection is conservative — small edits (a typo fix) trigger it just like big rewrites. If you do a lot of fine-tuning in Shopify, expect to see “stale” banners regularly.

Reviewer roles (Grow plan and higher)

On the Grow plan and higher, you can invite teammates as reviewers. A reviewer can:

  • Open the review queue and see all pending drafts.
  • Publish, edit, or discard drafts.
  • Cannot start new bulk jobs, change settings, or modify billing.

This is the role for letting a copy editor or merchandiser do the day-to-day publishing work without giving them admin access to the rest of the store.

Configure reviewers in Settings → Team.

Drafts and the activity feed

Every action you take on a draft — generated, published, discarded, edited, reverted — shows up in the activity feed. The feed is the source of truth for “what happened to this product” across time, including who did it and when.