Opencart Short Description helps Your to Add more useful information on product page e.g cod available ,
delivery time its static module and you can uses HTML or plain text as show in screenshot you can modify as per your requirements

sample html code

<span>DELIVERED BY </span> : Wed, 27th May: Rs. 40 </br>
<span>CASH ON DELIVERY </span> : Available </br>
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