Use Lyros with confidence.

Getting started

Lyros is built for catalog work, not one-off copy tricks. It helps you find weak product content, improve it with AI, and publish the parts you approve back to Shopify.

Main app

The Lyros product tagger. Use it to search, filter, generate Shopify tags, restore previous tag sets, and run tag jobs on selected or filtered products.

SEO Insights

A catalog health screen. It points you to products with missing meta fields, thin descriptions, weak titles, missing alt text, or tag issues.

AI SEO Studio

The workspace for SEO Meta, Image Alt-Text, Product Title, and Description. Each tab has its own filters, prompt controls, preview or review state, and bulk controls.

Pricing & Plans

Where you estimate credits, buy credit bundles, choose a subscription, or set up pay as you go billing through Shopify.

Find the right work before generating anything

SEO Insights is the fastest way to understand where your catalog is weak. It scans your products and groups issues by severity and feature area.

1. Open SEO Insights from the app navigation

   You will see the current analysis status, last updated time, total products analyzed, and issue cards when analysis is available.

2. Click Refresh Analysis when the data looks stale

   Refreshing asks Lyros to rescan the catalog. While it runs, avoid judging the totals too closely; the final counts appear after processing finishes.

3. Sort issues by severity, not by curiosity

   Critical issues deserve attention first. Missing meta descriptions, missing alt text, and very thin product descriptions usually have a clearer payoff than cosmetic rewrites.

4. Use the action on an insight card

   The action takes you into the correct AI SEO Studio tab with the affected products in focus when exact targeting is available.

5. Clear the insight filter when you are done

   If a banner says you are viewing products from a specific insight, use Show all products to return to your full catalog.

Generate useful Shopify tags

Tags are for organization, filtering, collections, internal workflows, and on-site discovery. Lyros can generate them product by product, for selected products, or for everything in a filtered view.

1. Open Lyros - Smart Product Tagger

   This is the home screen of the app. Products appear in a ResourceList with an image, title, current tags, and a Generate Tags or Restore button.

2. Filter before you generate

   Use search plus Status, Product Type, Vendor, Tags, Inventory, and Collection filters. Turn on Exclude Lyros tagged products when you only want products that have not already been processed.

3. Set tag guidance if needed

   Open the advanced prompt settings when you need a specific style, such as material tags, audience tags, or short two-word tags. Save the settings before generating.

4. Use classification for a controlled vocabulary

   In Classification mode, paste the only tags Lyros is allowed to choose from. Pick Any number, Exactly N tags, or Up to N tags. This is best for stores with strict collection or filter systems.

5. Generate one product

   Click Generate Tags on a product row. Lyros updates the product tags and shows a Why these tags explanation when available.

6. Generate selected products

   Click Select, choose products, then use Generate Tags. This is the careful way to process a small group with shared context.

7. Generate a filtered group

   After applying filters, use Generate Tags for Filtered. Confirm the count before starting so you do not process more products than intended.

8. Restore when needed

   If a product has restore records, the row shows Restore. Use it to return to the previous tag set for that product.

Optimize meta titles and meta descriptions

SEO Meta controls how a product is described to search engines and preview surfaces. It does not replace the visible product description on the product page.

Understand the screen

The SEO Meta tab shows KPI tiles for products optimized, average SEO score, and products needing optimization. Below that, a Custom AI Instructions card lets you guide bulk generation. The product list includes filters for SEO Status, SEO Score, Product Status, and Tags.

1. Open AI SEO Studio, then choose SEO Meta

   The SEO Meta tab is the first tab in the studio. The tab bar also includes Image Alt-Text, Product Title, and Description.

2. Review the current score and fields

   Each product row shows its current meta title and meta description. Warnings appear when fields are missing, too short, too long, or low quality.

3. Preview before editing

   Use Preview to see how the current SEO content may appear in Google and social previews. This helps you spot truncation and weak opening words.

4. Generate SEO for one product

   Click Optimize SEO, Optimize SEO Title, or Optimize SEO Description depending on the active generation type. Lyros drafts the selected metadata.

5. Edit and save in the SEO editor

   The editor shows Meta Title, Meta Description, length guidance, a search preview, a before-and-after comparison, and Why this SEO draft. Click Save to publish to Shopify.

6. Set custom instructions for repeatable output

   Click Set up in Custom AI Instructions. Choose whether the prompt applies to title and description, title only, or description only. Keep the prompt under the character limit and focused on tone, keywords, and structure.

7. Run bulk only after reviewing the estimate

   Bulk Optimize SEO opens a confirmation with the number of products, skipped products, estimated credits, and whether the job auto-applies changes. Start only when the scope matches your intent.

Write accessible image descriptions

Alt text helps screen-reader users understand images, and it can help image search understand what is pictured. Lyros gives you both careful manual review and faster bulk generation.

1. Open AI SEO Studio, then choose Image Alt-Text

   The top tiles show total images, images needing optimization, and images optimized. The list shows product cards with the featured image and current alt text state.

2. Filter the image backlog

   Use Alt-Text Status to show Has Alt-Text or Missing Alt-Text. You can also filter by product status and tags, or search by product name, description, type, or vendor.

3. Generate the featured image quickly

   On a product card, click Generate featured when the first image has no alt text, or Regenerate featured when you want a replacement. This applies the generated alt text to Shopify.

4. Use Manage for a full product review

   Manage opens all images for the product. Click Generate For Missing to draft alt text only where it is blank, Generate or Regenerate for a single image, or Regenerate All when you intentionally want to replace existing alt text.

5. Read the before-and-after section

   For generated text, the modal shows Original and Generated values plus Why this alt text. Use the quality checks to catch vague or overly long descriptions.

6. Apply or discard the generated text

   Click Apply Generated to save it to Shopify, or discard it if it is not right. You can also type your own alt text and click Save.

7. Bulk generate all products when coverage matters

   Generate Alt-Text for All Products opens an estimate. Bulk alt text is auto-applied, prioritizes missing alt text first, and usually uses 1 credit per successfully processed image.

• Describe what is visible, not what you hope the image sells.
• Do not start every alt text with "image of" or "product photo of" unless that phrase is truly useful.
• Include color, material, shape, and product type when they matter to the shopper.
• Decorative images in themes may not need alt text, but product images almost always benefit from it.

Improve product titles without losing accuracy

Product titles affect search, collection browsing, and shopper confidence. Lyros drafts stronger titles, but the final title should still sound like your store.

1. Open AI SEO Studio, then choose Product Title

   The tab shows title KPI tiles, a Product Title card, a custom prompt control, and a product list.

2. Add a short custom prompt when helpful

   Open Custom prompt and add constraints such as premium tone, include material and color, or limit to about 65 to 70 characters. The prompt applies to new manual and bulk generations.

3. Filter the list

   Search by product name, description, type, or vendor. Use Product Status and Tags to narrow the products you want to work on.

4. Generate a title for one product

   Click Generate. Lyros shows a Review generated title panel instead of immediately overwriting Shopify.

5. Compare current and new title

   The review panel shows Current title, New title, character count, recommended length status, and Why this title. Edit the generated title directly if needed.

6. Save or keep the current title

   Click Save to Shopify to publish the edited title, or Keep current title to discard the draft.

7. Use bulk title generation carefully

   Generate Titles for All Products auto-generates and applies titles to products that need them for the current prompt. Review the estimate, skipped count, and restore note before starting.

Compose descriptions with review, preview, and restore

Descriptions are visible selling copy on your Shopify product pages. The Description tab is the most editor-like part of Lyros, with rich text, HTML, live preview, generation preferences, and version history.

1. Open AI SEO Studio, then choose Description

   The top summary shows total products, descriptions optimized, and products needing optimization. Below it, SKUs appear in a list with description snippets and word counts.

2. Find the right SKU

   Search by title, variant, or SKU. Use filters and sort controls to focus on the products that need fresh descriptions.

3. Open the composer

   Click Compose on a SKU. If you selected multiple SKUs first, the composer lets you choose the active SKU from a dropdown while keeping the group selected.

4. Choose generation preferences

   Set the framework, length, tone, and other options shown in the preferences area. These choices shape the draft before you spend time editing.

5. Generate the draft

   Click Generate. Lyros drafts the description and shows Why this draft with source fields and quality checks.

6. Edit in Rich Text or HTML

   Use Rich Text for normal writing. Switch to HTML when you need direct markup control. Unsupported tags are stripped before save, and Lyros warns you when that will happen.

7. Preview the result

   Click Preview to see the sanitized description in a live preview block. This is useful for checking headings, lists, links, and spacing before publishing.

8. Save to Shopify

   Click Save only when the description is ready. Manual generation creates a draft first; Save is the publishing step.

9. Use version history when needed

   After saved versions exist, click Restore to open Version history. Preview an older version, then restore it if the current description is not the one you want.

Run bulk work without surprises

Bulk jobs save hours, but they also publish faster than manual review. Lyros shows scope, skipped items, credits, apply mode, and progress so you can decide before committing.

1. Decide the feature first

   Tags, SEO meta, alt text, product titles, and descriptions each have their own bulk flow. Start from the tab where you want the changes to happen.

2. Prefer a small scope for first runs

   Use selected products or a tight filter before running a full catalog job. This gives you a sample of the output style.

3. Read the review card

   The Action Review card explains what will be generated, whether changes are auto-applied, how many items are in scope, what is skipped, and the estimated credit cost.

4. Check restore availability

   Some features can restore previous values when backend restore records exist. Other features, such as alt text bulk generation, may not offer restore.

5. Start the job once

   After starting, progress appears in the tab, a modal, or the Activity page. Avoid clicking start repeatedly for the same scope.

6. Watch failures, not only completion

   A job can complete with failed items. Open details or Activity to see which products failed and whether they should be retried.

Check what happened after the job runs

Activity and Usage are your audit trail. Use them when you need to confirm progress, understand credit consumption, or investigate a failed job.

Activity

1. Open Activity from the navigation

   You will see recent bulk jobs with feature, status, item counts, credits, timestamps, summary, and any errors returned by the job.

2. Filter by feature or status

   Use feature filters such as Product tags, SEO meta, Product title, Product description, Alt text, and Classification. Use status filters such as Queued, Processing, Completed, Failed, or Cancelled.

3. Open the feature link

   When available, the feature link returns you to the screen where that job belongs.

4. Use restore preview carefully

   If restore is available, Lyros can show a preview before restoring. Nothing changes until you confirm.

Usage

1. Open Usage from the navigation

   The Usage Dashboard shows credits used or total spent, current limits, credit balance, account status, and warnings when usage is high.

2. Refresh when you just finished a job

   Use the refresh button if a bulk job finished recently and the numbers have not updated yet.

3. Watch warning banners

   Medium, high, critical, and exceeded warnings tell you when to add credits, upgrade, or wait for a subscription cycle.

Credits and billing

Credits are used for AI-powered generation. Pricing & Plans includes a credit estimator, current balance, subscriptions, credit bundles, pay as you go, and billing FAQ.

Good to know

• New stores may receive welcome credits to try Lyros.
• Product tags, product titles, product descriptions, and complete meta tags generally use 1 credit per product.
• Image alt text generally uses 1 credit per image.
• Manual edits you type yourself are free.
• The app shows estimates before large bulk jobs whenever possible.
• If you run out of credits, add more credits or choose an available billing option.

FAQ and common questions

Quick answers to the questions merchants ask most often.