Usage

Choose your layouts

1. Pick a colour scheme in Website → Themes. With Auto the header and home layout follow it.
2. Fix a header or home layout in the add-on settings when you want a scheme with another layout.
3. Arrange the home blocks in Design → Layouts. The block classes vx-h-store, vx-h-showcase and vx-h-deals say in which home layout a block appears; a block without one appears in all.

Departments and menus

The Catalog button and the icon menu show your categories with their images as icons and the subcategories in the panel. The best seller of each department is added on the right. Use square product shots or icons as category images.

The stage and the offers

Add banners to the Vertex stage block. Link each banner to a promotion: its tab shows “N days left” and the slide shows a countdown. The Offers running now rail works the same way.

Tiles inside the product grid

1. Place a banners block with the template Tiles inside the product grid on the Categories location (the theme adds one, Category tiles).
2. Set the positions and sizes in the block settings.
3. Change the banners for one category on that category’s Layouts tab (CS-Cart’s own per-category block content).

The tile type follows the banner: a linked promotion shows a countdown, a link to a YouTube, Vimeo or .mp4 video opens the video in a popup, a link to a blog post opens a popup with the banner’s lead text and a Read button.

Deal of the day

Add products to the Deal of the day block and a catalog promotion with an end date for the first one. The clock counts down to that date; without one the clock is hidden. Products 2-4 appear as More deals.

Quantity prices

Quantity discounts of a product (Products → Quantity discounts) show on every card as “from $X at N+” and as tiers on the product page and in the deal block. Customer group prices apply to signed-in customers.

Blog posts with products

Every post page has the Shop this story block. Pick its products for one post on the post’s Layouts tab.

Product videos

Add a product feature with the code VX_VIDEO (type Text) and enter a YouTube, Vimeo or .mp4 URL. A “Watch the video” tile appears under the gallery and plays the video in a popup.

Show more

With the setting on, category, search and vendor pages show a Show more button with the page count. The next page loads under the current products, and the address changes so a shared link opens the same page.