Gloss is a storefront theme for multi-brand beauty retailers and beauty marketplaces selling makeup, skincare, fragrance, hair and bath and body, on CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor.
Four styles change more than the accent: Nude (blush plates and cherry buttons), Cherry (cherry bands and sticker badges), Peach (coral and leaf green, square plates) and Noir (dark plates, champagne and rose).
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.
Brands as the first navigation, with a page per brand
Every shade visible on the card, sold-out shades crossed out
A shade strip and concern chips that link to real filters
Brand offers that show their real end date
Unit price per ml for fair comparisons
A Top 10 chart from your own sales
Text contrast of at least 4.5:1 in every style
How it works
Install the package in Add-ons: it adds the Gloss theme without touching your storefront. Activate Gloss in Website, Themes and pick a style. The next admin page adds the demo catalogue, so every homepage section is filled at once; replace it step by step.
Brands, shade groups, concerns and volume are product features. Shades are a product option. Mosaic, chart and sections are Block Manager blocks.
Features
Menu bar with Brands A-Z: letter rail, every brand with its product count and featured brand logos
Mega panels per category with subcategories, highlights and a category tile
Brand mosaic: campaign tile and four brand offer tiles with the promotion end date
Shade strip from fair to deep that links to the shade filter
Product cards on tinted counter plates with round shade swatches and swatch image swap
Unit price per ml and sale, Clean, New and Mini badges
Quick add with the chosen shade
Top 10 chart with large serif numerals in tabs
Shop by concern chips, offers band with a countdown, minis, gift sets and a brand grid
Product page shade picker with a large preview, size chips and a samples note
Find your shade tile on category pages and a brand banner on brand pages
Multi-Vendor: brand shops as vendors with a brand-shop header
Cart side panel, sticky header, tab bar and buy bar on phones
Installs with full demo content: every section and demo products are ready after activation
Four styles: Nude, Cherry, Peach and Noir
Child of Responsive: add-on hooks keep working
CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 to 4.21.x
What you get
Package
kv_theme_gloss-1.0.0.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
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 Gloss 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
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
Supported
Supported
Before 4.17.2
Not supported
Not supported
Not supported
Not supported
Last tested build: Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Oct 18, 2026Tested on: CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.21.2
Requirements
Platform
CS-Cart, CS-Cart Ultimate, 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
1.0.0
Oct 18, 2026
Latest
Added 5
Gloss theme for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 - 4.21.x: a beauty and cosmetics store theme with a menu bar that starts with Brands A-Z (letter rail, every brand with its product count, featured brand logos) and mega panels per category, a brand mosaic (campaign tile and four brand offer tiles with the real promotion end date), a shade strip from fair to deep, New in, a Top 10 chart with large serif numerals in tabs, shop by concern chips, an offers band with a countdown, minis, a gift sets band, a brand grid, the journal and a loyalty band.
Product cards on tinted counter plates with round shade swatches (sold-out shades crossed out), brand line with a link to the brand page, unit price per ml, sale / Clean / New / Mini badges and a quick add that adds the chosen shade; category pages with a Find your shade tile; brand pages with a brand banner.
Product page with a shade picker (round swatches, shade name and a large preview; the gallery follows the shade), size chips, unit price, samples note and delivery facts.
Four styles: Nude, Cherry, Peach and Noir. Instrument Serif and Instrument Sans (SIL Open Font License, self-hosted).
Complete demo content (Gloss & Co.: eight categories, 44 products from seven fictional brands with shades and sizes, four brand promotions, journal posts, brand shops on Multi-Vendor) installed on activation.
Tested on CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.21.2. First release.
Does Gloss work with my add-ons?
Yes. Gloss 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 on CS-Cart and on Multi-Vendor?
Yes, one package for both. On Multi-Vendor the brand shops are vendors.
My product photos have a white background. Will they look right?
The counter plates are made for cut-out images on a transparent background. Photos on white show as a white square on the tinted plate; choose the card style Minimal to drop the plate, or use cut-out images.
Why does a card show no swatches?
Swatches come from a product option named Shade, Colour or Tone. Shade names without a known colour word need an image on the option variant. See Usage.
Why is the shade strip or the concern row empty?
Both need a product feature (SHADE_GROUP, CONCERN), a product filter for it and products with values in the category of the block.
Why does a product show no countdown or end date?
Countdowns and end dates only appear for catalog promotions with an end date.
Where do the Top 10 numbers come from?
From the order of the block's products: bestsellers by sales, or your own manual list in rank order.
Can I turn off the unit price or the Brands A-Z panel?
Yes, in the Gloss settings.
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.
Will an update overwrite my changes?
No. Files you changed are kept (a notice lists them), and layouts and blocks are never replaced.
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