Bazaar is a modern storefront theme for Multi-Vendor marketplaces of independent shops, makers and small brands. Buyers always see who sells a product: a monogram chip in the vendor's colour with the shop name and rating, shop cards with best sellers, a vendor banner with the shop's products and a seller box next to the buy button.
Four styles change more than the accent: Cobalt, Market (print-shop outlines), Midnight (dark) and Fresh (soft and rounded).
Four styles, one theme
Each style changes the ground, bands, type weight and card treatment, not only the accent colour. Open any of them in the live demo.
Bazaar helps vendors sell and helps you recruit them:
Every product links to its shop, every shop page looks like a real storefront
An "open your shop" card and sell band lead new vendors to the sign-up page
One-row mega menu, sticky header and mobile bottom bar
Two products per row on phones, text contrast of at least 4.5:1 in every style
Self-hosted fonts, no extra libraries, works with the 4.21 full page cache
Styled for Kavio Labs add-ons and safe with others
How it works
Install the package in Add-ons: it adds the Bazaar theme without touching your storefront. Activate Bazaar in Website, Themes and pick a style. Choose the shops for the "Shops people love" block, edit the hero texts and category links in the Block Manager and upload your logo per style.
Vendor chips, banners and seller boxes use the vendor data you already have. A short settings page switches the sticky header, mobile bar, "More" menu, card style, hover image, product page layout and animations.
Features
Vendor chip with monogram, shop name and rating on every product card
Shop cards with cover, item count, best-seller thumbnails and a "shop of the week" hero
Vendor storefront banner with logo, location, rating and the shop's products
Sticky seller box on product pages
Installs with full demo content: every section and demo products are ready after activation
Rotated sticker badges, category tiles with illustrations and a sell band for new vendors
Four styles: Cobalt, Market, Midnight and Fresh
Mega menu with a "More" item that keeps the menu on one row
Sticky header and mobile bottom bar
Two product page layouts and four product card styles
Child of Responsive: add-on hooks keep working
Multi-Vendor and Multi-Vendor Ultimate 4.17.2 to 4.21.x
What you get
Package
kv_theme_bazaar-1.0.2.zip: the theme and its wrapper add-on, installed through Add-ons → Manage add-ons. Activate it in Website → Themes and pick a style.
Editions
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 Bazaar 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
Not available
Not available
Testing next
Testing next
4.21.2
Not available
Not available
Tested
Supported
4.20.x
Not available
Not available
Supported
Supported
4.19.x
Not available
Not available
Supported
Supported
4.18.x
Not available
Not available
Supported
Supported
4.17.2
Not available
Not available
Tested
Supported
Before 4.17.2
Not available
Not available
Not supported
Not supported
Last tested build: Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Oct 16, 2026Tested on: Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2
Requirements
Platform
Multi-Vendor or Multi-Vendor Ultimate 4.17.2 – 4.21.x
Requirement
Administrator access to the admin panel
Core changes
None. Hooks and template overrides only
1.0.2
Oct 16, 2026
Latest
Changed 2
Demo content matches the live demo: products keep their realistic age (new arrivals and older items) and secondary categories.
Built on the Kavio theme kit 1.1.1 (demo content: optional "show in product list" flag per demo feature and optional time-limited demo deals for themes with deal countdowns).
Fixed 2
Demo content: product features no longer show an internal tag as their tooltip text in the Features tab; upgrading clears the tag from demo features added by version 1.0.1.
Demo content: select and multiple-choice features (for example condition, colour, ships from) now get their values, product filters for them are added to the demo categories, and blog posts show their images in the blog list.
Tested on Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2. No breaking changes.
1.0.1
Oct 16, 2026
Added 2
Demo content on activation: when a storefront switches to the theme, the theme adds its own demo catalogue (categories, products with images, options and features, blog posts, reviews and a main menu and demo shops) on the next admin page and points the homepage blocks of the theme layout at it, so the storefront looks complete at once. Runs once per storefront; re-activating or upgrading never adds duplicates; your own products, categories and pages are never changed. New setting "Install the demo content when the theme is activated" (on by default). Demo items are normal items: delete the ones you do not need in the standard admin pages.
Built on the Kavio theme kit 1.1: department rail, search with departments, header icons and phone blocks, card countdown/spec chip/seller partials, tabbed blocks, in-grid promo tiles and phone helpers (sticky buy bar, filter sheet, swipe gallery, basket bar) are available to the theme.
Fixed 1
The "More" menu no longer leaves a small gap before the first top-menu item.
Tested on Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2. No breaking changes.
1.0.0
Oct 16, 2026
Added 3
Bazaar theme for Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 - 4.21.x: vendor chips on product cards, product page and cart lines; shop
Four styles: Cobalt, Market, Midnight, Fresh. Plus Jakarta Sans + Inter, self-hosted (SIL OFL).
Kavio theme kit 1.0: mega menu with "More", sticky header, mobile bottom bar, card styles, hover image, product page
Tested on Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2. First release.
Does Bazaar work with my add-ons?
Yes. Bazaar is a child of the standard Responsive theme and does not override product, cart or checkout templates, so add-on hooks keep working. Kavio Labs add-ons are styled to match each style.
Does it work with CS-Cart (without vendors)?
No. Bazaar is built around vendors (chips, shop cards, storefront banners, seller box) and installs on Multi-Vendor and Multi-Vendor Ultimate only.
Where do the shop ratings come from?
From vendor reviews of the Comments and reviews add-on. Shops without reviews show no stars; nothing is made up.
Can I hide the vendor chips?
Yes: Settings → Vendors → Display vendor off hides the chips together with the standard vendor line.
What happens without a licence?
A new installation works for 14 days. After that, without a valid licence, the storefront shows the standard Responsive look; cart, checkout and orders keep working and visitors see no message. The admin panel tells you why and how to fix it. See Configuration.
Does the theme work on my staging copy?
Yes. Subdomains of your licensed domain and local development hosts are covered by the same licence.
What happens if your licence server is down?
Nothing visible: the theme keeps the last verified result and keeps working for 14 days while it retries.
Does the licence check slow down my storefront?
No. It runs in the admin panel or from cron, once a day; the storefront only reads the stored result.
Will an update overwrite my changes?
No. Files you changed are kept (a notice lists them), and layouts and blocks are never replaced.
A Swiss-editorial storefront theme with oversized type, a ruled category index and four bold styles, built on Responsive so every add-on keeps working.
A department-store theme for large catalogues: colour-coded departments, a department list beside the hero, tabbed product blocks and a sticky buy box.
