Installation

Requirements

• CS-Cart or Multi-Vendor (also Ultimate) 4.17.2 – 4.21.x.
• Administrator access to the admin panel.

Install

1. Download kv_theme_loud-<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 Loud theme installs the Loud theme files. It does not change your storefront.
3. Enter your licence key: Add-ons → Manage add-ons → Loud theme → Settings → License (see Configuration).
4. Open Website → Themes, find Loud and click Activate. CS-Cart asks whether to apply the theme’s recommended settings (square thumbnails without a background colour, Rows as the default product list view, 24 products per page); accept them for the intended look.
5. Open any admin page once: Loud adds its demo content (Frayd Supply: Men, Women, Shoes, Accessories and Drops with 18 subcategories, 49 products with sizes and colours, dated drops, three promotions with real end dates, reviews, four Notes posts and a main menu; on Multi-Vendor also four creator shops) 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: Acid, Riot, Pool or Newsprint.

The theme brings its own layout (header, homepage sections, category and product page blocks, 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 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 Loud theme in Add-ons → Manage add-ons. The Loud theme files and its layouts are removed. The demo products, categories, promotions and posts stay (they are normal items); delete the ones you do not need.

If a storefront still uses Loud 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.