Installation

Requirements

• CS-Cart, CS-Cart Ultimate, Multi-Vendor or Multi-Vendor Ultimate 4.17.2 – 4.21.x.
• For the news posters, the core Blog add-on; for the guest book and shop ratings, the core Comments and reviews add-on; for product ratings, the core Product reviews add-on; for the letterbox, the core Newsletters add-on. Optional: our Vendor Holiday Mode add-on for the “Open / On holiday” plate on vendor pages.
• Administrator access to the admin panel.

Install

1. Download kv_theme_arcade-<version>.zip from your Kavio Labs or CS-Cart Marketplace account.
2. Open Add-ons → Manage add-ons, click the gear button, choose Manual installation and upload the archive. The add-on Arcade theme installs the Arcade theme files. It does not change your storefront.
3. Enter your licence key: Add-ons → Manage add-ons → Arcade theme → Settings → License (see Configuration).
4. Open Website → Themes, find Arcade and click Activate. CS-Cart asks whether to apply the theme’s recommended settings (the Shelves product list view, 24 products per page, portrait product images without a background colour); accept them for the intended look.
5. Open any admin page once: Arcade adds its demo content (Linden Arcade: eight shops as categories with 21 subcategories, 51 products with materials, colours and reviews, a teapot in three glaze variations, size options, a pre-order and a “notify me” product, a “Today’s offers” promotion with a real end date, four news posts, store reviews and a main menu; on Multi-Vendor the eight shops are demo vendors with their own sign logos and shop reviews) and points the homepage blocks at it. A notice confirms it. Turn the setting Install the demo content when the theme is activated off before step 4 to start with an empty design.
6. Choose a style: Lantern, Neon, Chalk or Pier.

The theme brings its own layout (header with the sign and arches, the street, offers board, shelves, directory, news and guest book, facades on category and vendor pages, the counter product page, footer). Layouts of your other themes stay untouched; switching back to your previous theme brings them back.

Upgrade

Upload the new package the same way (Manual installation over the installed add-on), or install the upgrade package in Administration → Upgrade center. Then open any admin page once: the add-on updates the installed theme files. Files you changed yourself (for example a style edited in the Theme editor) are kept, and a notice lists them. Your layouts and blocks are never replaced, and the demo content is never added twice.

Uninstall

1. Switch every storefront to another theme in Website → Themes.
2. Uninstall Arcade theme in Add-ons → Manage add-ons. The Arcade theme files and its layouts are removed. The demo products, categories, shops, promotions and posts stay (they are normal items); delete the ones you do not need.

If a storefront still uses Arcade when you uninstall the add-on, the theme files are kept and that storefront shows the standard Responsive look until you install the add-on again or switch the theme.