Reel is a storefront theme for beauty and personal care, fashion accessories, jewellery, fragrance and trend gifts: stores whose shoppers arrive on their phones from short videos and social posts and buy by look.
Four styles change the whole frame: Papaya (peach, pink, lime), Ink (white, black, one red, square corners), Seafoam (mint, teal, coral) and Velvet (a dark night store with neon pink).
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.
A routine builder that adds four products in one tap
Unit prices from the size feature
Countdowns to the real promotion end only
A bag drawer with free-delivery progress
A phone layout with a floating bar and quick shop sheet
Text contrast of at least 4.5:1 in every style
How it works
Install the package in Add-ons: it adds the Reel theme without touching your storefront. Activate Reel in Website, Themes and pick a style. The next admin page adds the demo store, so every section is filled at once; replace it step by step.
Reels are your banners with a paired product, stories are your categories, routines are product blocks, and unit prices, steps and how-to reels come from product features.
Features
Pill header with the menu, search, wish list, account and a Bag pill
Story circles for categories and subcategories, seen state kept in the browser
Shoppable 9:16 reels with caption, chip, Save, Add and Share and a product sticker
Routine builder with tabs, numbered steps and an add-all button
Portrait tiles with price pill, heart, quick add, rating and size
Product reels with deal countdowns and a journal of story covers
Store reviews as comment bubbles and a newsletter card
Category pages with a large title, pill filters and a Feed and Grid switch
Product page with a sticky buy card, unit price, option chips, how-to step reels and a rating summary
Floating phone bar with a quick shop sheet and a bag drawer
Creator profile on vendor pages and a seller line on tiles (Multi-Vendor)
Installs with full demo content: categories, products, reels and routines are ready after activation
Four styles: Papaya, Ink, Seafoam and Velvet
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_reel-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 Reel 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 20, 2026Tested on: CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 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
For the reels, the core Banners add-on; for the journal, the core Blog add-on; for the comment bubbles, the
Requirement
Administrator access to the admin panel
Core changes
None. Hooks and template overrides only
1.0.0
Oct 20, 2026
Latest
Added 6
Reel theme for CS-Cart, CS-Cart Ultimate, Multi-Vendor and Multi-Vendor Ultimate 4.17.2 - 4.21.x: a beauty, personal
Homepage: story circles for the categories (seen state in the browser), shoppable 9:16 reels from banners (caption,
Category header with the product count, subcategory story circles, pill filters, Feed | Grid product list views and a
Phones: floating dark bar (Home, Search, quick shop sheet, Saved, Bag), bag drawer with free-delivery progress,
Four styles: Papaya, Ink, Seafoam and Velvet. Syne and Urbanist (SIL Open Font License, self-hosted).
Complete demo content (mollo.: eight categories with 26 subcategories, 47 products with sizes, skin types, how-to
Tested on CS-Cart 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.17.2, Multi-Vendor 4.21.2. First release.
Does Reel work with my add-ons?
Yes. Reel 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. In the compact buy controls of reels, tiles and routine steps only the add button is shown; quote request and one-click buttons stay on the product page.
Is Reel only for beauty stores?
No. Any store that sells by look and buys in small baskets fits: fashion accessories and jewellery, hair accessories, fragrance and candles, nail and men's grooming, trend gifts, phone accessories, supplements sold as routines. The routine builder works for any "buy these together" set (a skincare routine, a hair kit, a gift trio).
Do I need videos for the reels?
No. A reel is a portrait banner image with a caption and a product sticker. Any 9:16 image works; the demo uses generated illustrations.
Why are there no like or view counts?
Reel shows only real data: ratings and review counts from your product reviews, product counts and promotion countdowns. It never invents social numbers.
My product photos have a white background.
They show as white cards on the gradient frames. Transparent packshots look best; otherwise lighten the frame colours in the Theme editor or use the Ink style (light grey frames). See Usage.
The routine "Add all" button adds fewer products than shown.
Products without a price or out of stock (without "buy in advance") are left out, so the cart never fails. Products with required options go in with their first variant.
Where are the language and currency selectors?
In the slim line above the header when your store has more than one language or currency.
The reel countdown does not show.
Countdowns show only for promotions with an end date: pick the promotion in the banner's Theme fields, or put the paired product into a catalog promotion that has an end date.
Does the theme work with the full page cache?
Yes. Cached pages contain only catalogue data; the bag, wish list count, saved hearts and seen story circles are filled in the visitor's browser.
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