Installation

Requirements

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

Install

1. Download kv_theme_parade-<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 Parade theme installs the Parade theme files. It does not change your storefront.
3. Enter your licence key: Add-ons → Manage add-ons → Parade theme → Settings → License (see Configuration).
4. Open Website → Themes, find Parade and click Activate. CS-Cart asks whether to apply the theme’s recommended settings (thumbnail sizes, the image gallery in product lists); accept them for the intended look.
5. Open any admin page once: Parade adds its demo content (five departments with subcategories, 42 products with sizes and colours, two promotions, reviews, journal posts, a main menu and, on Multi-Vendor, three brand 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: Ivory, Blush, Denim or Noir.

The theme brings its own layout (top band with department tabs, header, department bar, 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 (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 Parade theme in Add-ons → Manage add-ons. The Parade theme files and its layouts are removed. The demo products, categories and posts stay (they are normal items); delete the ones you do not need.

If a storefront still uses Parade 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.