A campaign-driven theme: flash bar, bento hero with a live deal tile, flash-deals zone with countdowns, sticker discounts and promo cells inside your product grids.
Tested on 2 buildsUpdated Oct 31, 2026Version 1.0.0CS-Cart, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 – 4.21.x No core file edits
<p>Pulse is a storefront theme for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor stores that sell through campaigns: flash sales, deals of the day, weekend drops and coupons. It fits electronics, fashion, home, toys and beauty alike.</p>
<p>The design is bold and rounded: white islands on a light page, dark campaign bands, pill buttons, round tilted discount stickers and wide display headings. Sixteen colour schemes, two of them dark, follow the Theme editor colours.</p>
One design, sixteen colour schemes
Pulse is one design. Each colour scheme recolours the whole storefront from the Theme Editor colours: menu bar, buttons, badges, hero and footer. Open any of them in the live demo.
<p>Install the package in Add-ons: it adds the Pulse theme without touching your storefront. Activate Pulse in Website, Themes and pick a colour scheme. The next admin page adds the demo catalogue with running promotions, so every section is filled at once.</p>
<p>Countdowns follow your catalog promotions with an end date. Edit hero slides, the deal tile, stories and cells as banners with their own text fields, and arrange the homepage in the Block Manager.</p>
Features
Flash bar with the soonest-ending catalog promotion and a live countdown
Bento hero: slider, deal-of-the-day tile with product, price and countdown, two promo tiles
Dark flash-deals zone with big flip-tile countdown, stock meters and "Only N left"
Discover feed and category grids with promo, countdown and video cells between the products
Category squircles, story circles with a 9:16 story player, pill-tab shelves, promo cards, video articles
Product cards with sticker discounts, brand and rating, colour dots from variations, deal pill, low-stock meter
Product page with gallery sticker, campaign strip under the price and a sticky buy bar with countdown on phones
Category header with subcategory pills, filter sheet and chips on phones
Multi-Vendor: seller line on cards and shop cards with top products
16 colour schemes incl. 2 dark; full demo content on install; CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 to 4.21.x
What you get
Package
kv_theme_pulse-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 Pulse 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, Oct 31, 2026Tested on: CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2
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 31, 2026
Latest
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Pulse theme for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 - 4.21.x: a campaign-driven storefront with 16 colour schemes
Flash bar with the soonest-ending catalog promotion and a live countdown; header with a pill search, round icon
Homepage: bento hero (slider, deal-of-the-day tile with product, price and countdown, two promo tiles), category
Product cards with sticker discounts, brand and rating, colour dots from variation groups, deal countdown pill and a
Category pages with a tinted header, subcategory pills, filters and info cells in the grid.
Product page with a gallery sticker and "Flash deal" flag, savings pill, campaign strip with the price after the deal,
Footer with a newsletter card and a dark footer card with a brand column.
Banner text fields (eyebrow, lead, buttons, badge, paired product, promotion, phone image) for the hero, tiles, stories
Tested on CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2. First release.
How is Pulse different from Atlas?
Atlas is a calm department-store layout for large catalogues (department list beside the hero, department colours). Pulse is built for selling through campaigns: flash bar, bento hero with a live deal tile, dark flash-deals zone with big countdowns, sticker discounts, a product page campaign strip and promo cells inside the product grids.
Where do the countdowns come from?
From your catalog promotions with an end date (Marketing → Promotions). The flash bar shows the promotion that ends first; cards and the product page show the promotion of that product. No end date, no timer: Pulse never shows invented countdowns.
Why does the flash bar not show?
No catalog promotion with an end date is running. Add an end date to a promotion, or disable the Pulse flash bar block if you do not run campaigns.
Where do the colour dots on the cards come from?
From variation groups (Product variations add-on): each variation with a colour feature becomes a dot.
Does Pulse work with my add-ons?
Yes. Pulse is a child of the standard Responsive theme and does not override product, cart or checkout templates, so add-on hooks keep working. Buttons of other add-ons on the product page get the Pulse pill style.
Does it work on CS-Cart and on Multi-Vendor?
Yes, one package for both. On Multi-Vendor it adds the seller line on cards and the shop cards block on the homepage.
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.
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 a shop-window homepage, oversized type 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.
