Pro Banner

Overview

Make your brand stand out with our Pro Banner add-on. It allows you to show an eye-catching wide banner on any page of your store. It’s an extra enhancement to your nice-looking website. It will definitely help you attract more customers and increase the click-through rates of your banners.

Here’s how it looks on the homepage:

and a category page:

Features

  • Banner size change proportionally to the screen resolution
  • Banner pagination
  • Swipe left or right to browse through images on touch screens
  • Automatic banner change
  • Designed to display on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices
  • Ability to upload images separately for mobile and UltraHD (4K) screens
  • Customizable content container, banner title, banner description, button in the banner
  • User-defined styles for banners
  • Lazy-load for the better appearance during the loading

Compatibility

The add-on is compatible with CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor 4.12 and above. Minimum required PHP version is 5.6.

See more information about compatibility of our add-ons here.

Support

You are guaranteed a quality add-on supported by the future versions. If you need help, please contact us via our help desk system.

Demo

Check out the Pro Banner add-on in our demo store.

Note

Every half an hour the demo store is reset to the default state.

Managing in the admin panel

Installing the add-on

Install the Pro Banner add-on on the add-ons list page (Add-ons → Manage add-ons). Click the + button in the top right corner, select an archive and click Upload & install. You can now find the installed add-on in the list of installed add-ons, just make sure it is set to Active.

Setting up the add-on

  • License key—Enter the license key to activate the add-on. You will receive this key in the order confirmation email. You can also see license keys for all your purchased add-ons in your HelpDesk account. Log in to HelpDesk, and navigate to the Licenses section:

Creating a Pro Banner

Step 1. Create a banner

  1. In the admin panel, navigate to Marketing > Banners.
  2. Click the + button in the top right corner.
  1. Enter the name for the banner, select the Graphic banner type and upload an image.
  1. Click Create.
  2. Upload additional images for mobile and Ultra HD (4K) screens if required.
  1. Configure a container width, an external and internal indentication, a background color and a block position.
  1. Set up a font size, a style (such as bold, italic or underlined), a text color and a block position for banner title.
  1. Specify banner description (any HTML content can be added) and a block position.
  1. You can specify a font size, a style (bold, italic or underlined), a text color and a background color for the button in the banner. Also you can round corners and choose a block position. The font is set in the Theme editor >> Fonts >> Buttons settings.
  1. Banners can also be styled with user styles:

Note

The add-on includes four demo banners for your store: demo banner - Sport, demo banner - Сamera, demo banner - Christmas, demo banner - Technology.

Click Save.

Step 2. Add the banner to the page

Follow the step-by-step guide below to add a Pro Banner to any page in your store.

  1. Navigate to Design > Layouts.
  2. Switch to the location where you want to show the banner and add a new Pro Banner block.
  1. In the General tab, enter a name for the block and select the template.
  1. In the Content tab, pick the Manually filling and click the Add banners button.
  1. You will see a list of all the banners in your store. Pick the one(s) you need and click the Add banners and close button.
  1. Finally, click Create to save your changes.
  2. Check out the banner on the storefront.