Installation

Requirements

• CS-Cart, CS-Cart Ultimate, Multi-Vendor or Multi-Vendor Ultimate 4.17.2 – 4.21.x.
• For the hero slider and the promo banners, the core Banners add-on; for The journal, Blog; for client reviews, Comments and reviews; for product ratings, Product reviews; for the newsletter, Newsletters; for the heart on cards, Wish list.
• Administrator access to the admin panel.

Install

1. Download kv_theme_mono-<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 Mono theme installs the Mono theme files. It does not change your storefront.
3. Enter your licence key: Add-ons → Manage add-ons → Mono theme → Settings → License (see Configuration).
4. Open Website → Themes, find Mono and click Activate. CS-Cart asks whether to apply the theme’s recommended settings (square product images without a background colour, the thumbnails gallery in product lists for the second image on hover, quick view, 12 products per page, sorting by popularity); accept them for the intended look.
5. Open any admin page once: Mono adds its demo content (Avenell Fine Jewellery: eight departments with 21 subcategories, 54 pieces with metal, purity, stone, occasion, collection, maker, carat and badge features, product filters, ring size, metal, chain length and bracelet length options, reviews, a “Gift week” promotion with a real end date, three hero slides and two promo banners, four journal posts, client reviews and a main menu; on Multi-Vendor four demo makers with 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: Ivory, Onyx, Bordeaux or Sapphire.

The theme brings its own layout (top bar, header with account, wish list and bag, centred menu band, homepage sections with Shop by category, Shop by metal / stone / occasion and the gift edit, metal bar and gift tile on category pages, product page bottom, footer brand column). 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 Mono theme in Add-ons → Manage add-ons. The Mono theme files and its layouts are removed. The demo products, categories, features, filters, banners, promotions and posts stay (they are normal items); delete the ones you do not need.

If a storefront still uses Mono 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.