Usage

Arcade works with the standard Block Manager: Website → Themes → Layouts. Every Arcade section is a normal block with an Arcade template, so you can move, hide, rename or copy it like any other block.

Links on the left (“Arcade links”, HTML block): Directory, Today’s offers and New in. Edit the block to change them.
Your logo in the centre: upload it in Website → Themes → Styles → Logos. Arcade gives it room for a sign-like logo up to 74 px high; the demo logo is an enamel shop sign.
Search, account and Bag on the right. The Bag button shows the number of items from the cart block.
Shop row: your Main menu under the header (the demo menu lists the eight shops and Arcade news).
Arches: the row of glass-roof arches under the header is drawn by the theme; there is nothing to configure.

The street (homepage)

The block Stroll the arcade. is the hero. Its name is the headline (rename the block to change it).

Multi-Vendor: a vendors block with the template Street of shop windows. Filling “All” lists your active vendors A to Z; “Manually” lets you pick and order them. Setting “Displayed vendors” limits the street (default 12).
CS-Cart: a categories block with the same template. List your top-level categories (one window per category; the subcategories of a tree filling are not shown as windows).
Window numbers and facade colours follow the order of this block. Category pages, vendor pages and product pages use the same number and colour, so a shop looks the same everywhere. Eight colours repeat after the eighth shop.
The goods in each window are the shop’s best sellers (most viewed and bought, then newest), with your prices and sale state. A shop without products shows “New stock soon”.
The lead text and the button labels are language variables: Administration → Languages → Translations, search for kv_theme_arcade.street_lead.
A street with fewer than three shops is shown as a fixed row without arrows.

Today’s offers, shelves, directory

Today’s offers (products block, template Chalkboard of today’s offers): use the filling “On sale” or pick products manually. The countdown shows the earliest end date of the catalog promotions of the listed products and is hidden when no promotion has an end date. The board has the anchor #ar-offers (header link “Today’s offers”).
New on the shelves (products block, template Goods on shelves, setting Columns): any filling.
Directory (vendors or categories block, template Directory board A-Z): lists every item of the block from A to Z with an A-Z index. The board has the anchor #ar-directory (header link and phone bar “Directory”).

News, guest book, letterbox

Arcade news: a blog block with the template News posters and the filling “Recent posts (scroller)”; it shows three posts with their images.
The guest book: the stock testimonials block (store reviews of the Comments and reviews add-on).
Letterbox: the stock newsletter Subscribe block in the footer.

Product images

Arcade stands products on shelves and on the counter: cut-out images with a transparent background look best. Photos on a white background blend into the lit windows while the setting Blend white product photos into the lit windows is on. Portrait images (4:5) fill the windows and shelves best; the recommended settings set list thumbnails to 400 × 500 pixels.

Category pages

The block Shop facade (template Shop facade header) sits under the breadcrumbs: the category name on the sign, the first paragraph of the category description in the lit window, facts (items, aisles, “from” price) and the subcategories as hanging aisle signs (the sibling categories when a category has none). The facade colour is the colour of the category’s top-level shop. Products are shown as Shelves (product list view).

Vendor pages (Multi-Vendor)

The same Shop facade block on the vendor page shows the vendor’s facade: logo (or the first letter), name, description, shop rating with the number of shop reviews, city, item count, the year the shop opened and the vendor’s departments as aisle signs. With our Vendor Holiday Mode add-on the plate reads “Open for orders” or “On holiday”.

Product page

The product stands on a counter (lit backdrop and wooden counter band); thumbnails underneath, a swipe gallery on phones.
The seller’s sign card hangs above the name: on Multi-Vendor the vendor (“Sold by”, rating, city, items, Visit shop), on CS-Cart the product’s top-level category (“From the Ceramics shop”).
The price is a large hanging tag (red on sale), with the deal countdown under it when the promotion has an end date.
More from this shop (block More from this shop): the vendor’s (or the category’s) best sellers, the current product left out.