<p>Aurora is a storefront theme for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor stores that want to look expensive: own-brand makers, curated retailers and any store with products worth showing large. It suits electronics, home, beauty, fashion and more.</p>
<p>The design is quiet and neutral: light sans type at large sizes, no top bar, no boxes around content. Motion comes from the content itself. Fourteen tone schemes, two with a light film and two dark, follow the Theme editor colours.</p>
One design, fourteen tone schemes
Aurora is one design. Each tone scheme recolours the whole storefront from the Theme Editor colours: film, scenes, buttons and footer. Open any of them in the live demo.
<p>Install the package in Add-ons: it adds the Aurora theme without touching your storefront. Activate Aurora in Website, Themes and pick a tone scheme. The next admin page adds the vael demo catalogue.</p>
<p>Choose the Film or Catalogue home layout in the add-on settings. Hero, scenes and stories are banners with their own text fields, so you edit them in the usual screens and arrange the page in the Block Manager.</p>
Features
Film hero: image with a slow pan, video, scroll-driven frame sequence or text only
Page ground that flows from scene to scene while scrolling
Header that shrinks into a floating island
Film and Catalogue home layouts in one setting
Shoppable scenes with product points and a small buy card
Room rail, departments index, story sections, quiet deal of the day, journal
Cards with second image on hover, finishes from variations, automatic tone plates
Product page with image mosaic, sticky buy column, model comparison, floating buy bar
Category pages with side filter drawer and 2, 3 or 4 columns
Multi-Vendor: seller line on cards
14 tone schemes; full demo content on install; respects reduced motion; CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 to 4.21.x
What you get
Package
kv_theme_aurora-1.0.0.zip: the theme and its wrapper add-on, installed through Add-ons → Manage add-ons. Activate it in Website → Themes, then pick a colour scheme in Website → Themes.
Editions
CS-Cart, CS-Cart Ultimate, Multi-Vendor and Multi-Vendor Ultimate 4.17.2 – 4.21.x, one package. A child theme of Responsive: no core files are changed and add-on templates keep working.
Updates & support
12 months included. Updates keep the theme files you changed; your layouts are never replaced.
License
1 production installation; subdomains, staging, dev and localhost are free. The theme checks its license for your domain once a day from the admin panel. Without a valid license the storefront shows the standard Responsive look instead of the Aurora design; cart, checkout and orders keep working. How licensing works
Compatibility
We list only the builds we install and test on. “Tested” means the full test plan was run on that build; “Supported” means the build is inside the supported range and uses the same hooks.
CS-Cart version and edition compatibility
CS-Cart version
CS-Cart
CS-Cart Ultimate
Multi-Vendor
Multi-Vendor Ultimate
4.22 and later
Testing next
Testing next
Testing next
Testing next
4.21.2
Supported
Supported
Supported
Supported
4.20.x
Supported
Supported
Supported
Supported
4.19.x
Supported
Supported
Supported
Supported
4.18.x
Supported
Supported
Supported
Supported
4.17.2
Tested
Supported
Tested
Supported
Before 4.17.2
Not supported
Not supported
Not supported
Not supported
Last tested build: CS-Cart 4.17.2, Nov 1, 2026Tested on: CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2
Requirements
Core changes
None. Hooks and template overrides only
1.0.0
Nov 1, 2026
Latest
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Aurora theme for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 - 4.21.x: an image-led storefront with 14 tone schemes that follow the
Film hero with image, video, scroll-driven frame sequence or text, a preloaded poster, and the header island.
Film and Catalogue home layouts in one setting; blocks of the other layout are not rendered.
Shoppable scenes, stories, room rail, departments, deal of the day, journal, grid tiles and model comparison blocks.
Automatic tone plates for photos on white or in another shape, with fixed modes in the settings.
Product mosaic, sticky buy column, buy bar, side filter drawer and column switch.
vael demo catalogue on activation: 24 products in 6 categories with locally rendered studio images.
Tested on CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2. First release.
Does Aurora work with a large catalogue?
Yes. Switch Home layout to Catalogue: a shorter hero, a departments index and product tabs.
My product photos are on white. Will they look wrong?
No. Automatic mode puts them on a tone plate. You can also force one treatment for all cards.
Do I need a video or a frame sequence?
No. A single image gets a slow pan, and the text hero needs no image at all.
Is the motion heavy on phones?
Phones never load the frame sequence or the video. They get the poster.
What about visitors who prefer reduced motion?
The hero becomes one still screen, only the poster loads and sections do not animate.
Which browsers show the page transition from card to product?
Browsers with cross-document view transitions. Others simply open the page.
Does it work with One Step Checkout?
Yes. Orders were tested with One Step Checkout on and off.
Is it ready for the 4.21 full page cache?
The theme prints catalogue data only and has no visitor-specific output. See the compatibility notes of your release.
Where do customers sign out?
The account icon in the header opens the customer's profile. Signed-in customers get a Sign out icon next to it and a Sign out link in the footer account column, on phones too.
Does Aurora change my core files?
No. It is a child of Responsive, delivered by an add-on.
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