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.
Available Updated Oct 16, 2026Version 1.0.2CS-Cart, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 – 4.21.x No core file edits
Ledger is a modern storefront theme for general stores, electronics, gear and design-minded brands. It gives the storefront a confident editorial identity instead of a template look: a hero with a ruled category index and a ticker of your store promises, an ink menu band, product cards on graph-paper wells with catalogue numbers, and bold section heads.
Four styles change more than the accent: Paper, Blueprint, Night (dark) and Riso (print look with offset shadows).
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.
One-row mega menu with "More": long catalogues never break the header
Sticky header and a mobile bottom bar with cart, search and account one tap away
Two products per row on phones, large tap targets, text contrast of at least 4.5:1 in every style
Self-hosted fonts and no extra libraries: no external requests
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 Ledger theme without touching your storefront. Activate Ledger in Website, Themes and pick a style. Edit the hero texts and category links in the Block Manager, choose products for the homepage blocks and upload your logo per style.
A short settings page switches the sticky header, mobile bar, "More" menu, card style, hover image, product page layout and animations. Updates keep the files you changed; layouts are never replaced.
Features
Ruled category index hero with a ticker band of store promises
Ledger double rules with running section numbers
Specimen-plate product cards on graph-paper wells, second image on hover
Four styles: Paper, Blueprint, Night and Riso
Installs with full demo content: every section and demo products are ready after activation
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
Subtle motion that respects reduced-motion settings
Child of Responsive: add-on hooks keep working
CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 to 4.21.x in one package
What you get
Package
kv_theme_ledger-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
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 Ledger 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
Tested
Supported
Before 4.17.2
Not supported
Not supported
Not supported
Not supported
Last tested build: Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Oct 16, 2026Tested on: CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2
Requirements
Platform
CS-Cart or Multi-Vendor 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 colour, material) 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 CS-Cart 4.17.2, 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; on Multi-Vendor also a demo shop) 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 CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2. No breaking changes.
1.0.0
Oct 15, 2026
Added 8
Ledger storefront theme (child of Responsive) for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 – 4.21.x, built on the Kavio theme kit 1.0.
Four styles: Paper, Blueprint, Night and Riso, each with its own logo colours and style icon.
Homepage hero with a ruled category index and a ticker band; ledger double rules with running section numbers; specimen-plate product cards.
Mega menu with a "More" item, sticky header, mobile bottom bar, two-column product grids on phones.
Theme settings: sticky header, mobile bar, "More" menu, product card style, second image on hover, product page layout, animations.
Styling for Kavio Labs add-ons (shipping goal bar, labels, videos, alerts, cookie consent, quotes, tickets, holiday mode, order notifications, WebP images).
Domain-bound licence (licence card, badge, notices); without a valid licence the storefront shows the standard Responsive look and the admin panel names the reason and the fix.
Self-healing upgrades: theme files are refreshed after an update, files you changed are kept.
Tested on CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.21.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2. First release.
Does Ledger work with my add-ons?
Yes. Ledger 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 Multi-Vendor?
Yes: vendor pages, featured vendors and vendor blocks are styled. The same package works for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor.
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 department-store theme for large catalogues: colour-coded departments, a department list beside the hero, tabbed product blocks and a sticky buy box.
