by Kavio Labs · for CS-Cart & Multi-Vendor
A trade supply theme: quick order by SKU, list rows with stock lights and quantity price breaks, prices with and without tax.
Forge is a storefront theme for tool and hardware merchants, builders' and trade suppliers, fixings, electrical and PPE shops on CS-Cart or Multi-Vendor. Trade buyers know the SKU, buy in quantity and compare unit prices, so Forge shows data instead of lifestyle banners: SKUs, stock, price breaks and taxes.
Four styles change more than the colours: Hi-Vis, Workshop (dark), Signal (square, ink rules) and Steel (soft plates).
Each style changes the ground, bands, type weight and card treatment, not only the accent colour. Open any of them in the live demo.
Hi-Vis DefaultConcrete ground, charcoal hero with hazard stripes, safety-yellow actions.Live demo 
WorkshopGraphite edition, yellow quick-order header and stripe section rules.Live demo 
SignalWhite with square corners, ink outlines, fire-red highlights, black bar.Live demo 
SteelCool steel, navy hero, electric-orange actions and soft-shadow plates.Live demo Forge helps trade buyers order faster:
Install the package in Add-ons: it adds the Forge theme without touching your storefront. Activate Forge in Website, Themes, pick a style and accept the recommended settings: the demo catalogue fills every section at once. Product lists become rows with price breaks from each product's quantity discounts; brand, part number and spec chips come from product features. Pick the popular SKUs of the quick order pad in the Block Manager and upload your logo per style.
| Package | kv_theme_forge-1.0.1.zip: the theme and its wrapper add-on, installed through Add-ons → Manage add-ons. Activate it in Website → Themes and pick a style. |
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| 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 Forge design; cart, checkout and orders keep working. How licensing works |
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 | CS-Cart | CS-Cart Ultimate | Multi-Vendor | Multi-Vendor Ultimate |
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| 4.22 and later | Testing next | Testing next | Testing next | Testing next |
| 4.21.2 | Supported | Supported | Tested | 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 |
| Platform | CS-Cart (incl. Ultimate) or Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 – 4.21.x |
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| Requirement | Administrator access to the admin panel |
| Core changes | None. Hooks and template overrides only |
Tested on CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2. No breaking changes.
Tested on CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2. First release.
Yes. Forge is a child of the standard Responsive theme and does not override product, cart or checkout templates; the list rows are built on the standard product form, so add-to-cart hooks, labels and buttons of other add-ons keep working. Kavio Labs add-ons are styled to match each style.
From the quantity discounts of each product (Products → product → Quantity discounts), for the customer's user groups, exactly as the cart charges them. Forge never shows invented tiers.
The product has no tax, or no tax applies to the customer's location. Forge shows prices excluding and including tax only when CS-Cart calculates a tax.
Yes, when they are signed in: the quick order pad shows Upload CSV and Reorder #N (their last order).
Yes. The pad is the same for everybody; SKU lookups are catalogue requests, and customer data is loaded only after the page for signed-in customers.
Yes: pick the views per category in Categories → category → Views, or let shoppers switch with the view icons. In the Block Manager every Forge rows section has a Grid view option.
With the Warehouses add-on the product page lists up to three stores with stock. Without it Forge shows the total stock light.
Yes, on CS-Cart (incl. Ultimate) and Multi-Vendor. Vendor pages use the list rows; on Multi-Vendor the demo content creates one demo shop named after the demo brand.
The demo catalogue is normal store data: delete what you do not need in Products, Categories and Website → Blog. Turn off "Install the demo content when the theme is activated" before activating the theme to start empty.
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.
Yes. Subdomains of your licensed domain and local development hosts are covered by the same licence.
No. Files you changed are kept (a notice lists them), and layouts and blocks are never replaced.
Contact us through https://cs-cart.kaviolabs.com.
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