Features
Current release: Venta Theme 1.7.2. See Updating to 1.7.2.
Legend
- ✅ = Included
- ❌ = Not Included
- 🔜 = Coming Soon
Storefront & theme
| Feature | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Landing page: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| PLP: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| PDP: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| PDP information tabs | ✅ | Collapsible attribute tabs and global CMS block tabs, both managed in the admin configuration. The demo store set is Returns and Warranty as attribute tabs, Delivery and Payment Methods as CMS block tabs |
| Footer | ✅ | |
| Header | ✅ | |
| Menu | ✅ | Megamenu with desktop and mobile category banners. Configurable menu depth with on-demand drill-down for deep category trees. Added in 1.6.4 |
| Login: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| Registration: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| My Account page: UI/UX improved | ✅ | |
| Cart page | ✅ | |
| Minicart | ✅ | |
| Minicart: cross-selling section | ✅ | |
| AJAX add to cart | ✅ | Optional, no page reload. Configurable after-add action |
| One step checkout | ✅ | Venta One Page style |
| Two step checkout | ✅ | Venta Default multi-step style |
| Guest Checkout | ✅ | |
| Payment method descriptions | ✅ | Per-method descriptions, admin-configurable |
| Store Switcher | ✅ | Custom labels and per-website country flags |
| Footer Logo | ✅ | |
| Wishlist: Quantity and Comment Fields | ✅ | |
| Shared wishlist | ✅ | Pagination added in 1.5.12 |
| Agreement Checkbox Settings | ✅ | Merged or separate checkboxes |
| Terms & Conditions acceptance tracking | ✅ | Registration and checkout, with acceptance timestamp. Added in 1.5.12 |
| Remote Shopping Assistance toggle | ✅ | Admin option to show or hide the checkbox. Added in 1.5.13 |
| Catalog: Out-of-Stock Product Management | ✅ | |
| PLP category banners | ✅ | Banner placement, column, and row span per category |
| Image Zoom | ✅ | Configurable zoom level |
| Sticky Add to Cart bar (PDP) | ✅ | Added in 1.5.3 |
| Image blur loading placeholders | ✅ | Storefront-wide gradient blur. Added in 1.6.0 |
| Responsive product images | ✅ | Product cards (1.6.4) and content widget images (1.7.0) serve per-breakpoint WebP and retina sizes. AVIF output added in 1.7.0 |
| Message Display | ✅ | Configurable auto-hide timeouts |
| Confirmation modal | ✅ | Replaces native browser alert and confirm dialogs. Added in 1.5.8 |
| Category Sidebar list | ✅ | With product counts |
| Product Reviews | ✅ | |
| Product comparison | ✅ | Compare list shared across all store views of a website. Added in 1.7.1 |
| Custom 404 page | ✅ | |
| Page Builder support & Venta widgets | ✅ | 17 Venta widget types (banner, key metrics, quote, team members, store benefits, brands, responsive image, and more) |
| Developer CLI tools | ✅ | venta:demo-data for sample content. venta:category:populate-images sets subcategory box logos from the first product image. Added in 1.6.3 |
| Playwright E2E test suite | ✅ | Page-object tests covering account, catalog, cart, and checkout flows. Added in 1.6.3. See End-to-end testing |
| SVG icon sprite (symbol/use) | ✅ | Repeated icons render as reusable <symbol>/<use> references to cut HTML payload. Added in 1.6.3 |
| Accessibility improvements | ✅ | Added in 1.5.13 |
| Email templates | ✅ | Branded transactional emails. Added in 1.5.10. See Email Templates |
| Hyvä CMS (Hyvä Commerce) elements | ✅ | Native Venta CMS components for every Venta widget, grouped under a "Venta" category in the Hyvä CMS editor. Added in 1.6.3 |
| Checkout footer links | ✅ | Custom CMS links and Terms & Conditions popup links in the checkout footer. Added in 1.6.4 |
| Global resource preloads | ✅ | Admin-managed <link rel="preload"> hints injected into every page. Added in 1.6.4. See Preload |
| PLP grid and list view switching | ✅ | Switches with no page reload, AJAX request or URL change. Stores configured with a single view mode keep it. Added in 1.7.1 |
| PLP toolbar memory | ✅ | View mode, sort order, sort direction and items per page are remembered per visitor and applied before first paint. Explicit URL parameters still win. Added in 1.7.1 |
| PDP image gallery | ✅ | Slides, thumbnails and the fullscreen view render through the image resizer at their measured slot widths, with a separate tablet size for fullscreen. Added in 1.7.1 |
| CMS responsive images | ✅ | <picture> markup, in four slot roles. Added in 1.7.1. A fill option crops an image to its container's height for equal-height grid cells, added in 1.7.2. See CMS Responsive Images |
| reCAPTCHA legal disclosure | ✅ | One notice in the footer above the copyright bar, shown when a form is guarded by reCAPTCHA v3 or v2 Invisible, instead of a notice per form. Added in 1.7.1 |
| Cloudflare Turnstile support | ✅ | Turnstile can be selected instead of Google reCAPTCHA for the guarded storefront forms, so those forms stay usable for visitors who decline cookies. Requires boxtwentytwo/module-cloudflare-turnstile. Added in 1.7.2. See Cloudflare Turnstile |
| Back/forward cache (bfcache) | ✅ | Theme components reset their state when a page is restored with Back or Forward. Off by default; needs an admin setting and a reverse proxy change. Added in 1.7.2. See Back/Forward Cache |
| Hyvä Commerce compatibility | ✅ | The theme package suggests hyva-themes/commerce and works with the Commerce admin theme, CMS Liveview editor, Menu Builder, admin dashboard and AI integrations. Added in 1.7.2. See Hyvä Commerce |
| Checkout: single shipping method auto-selected | ✅ | The shipping method is preselected when only one is available. Added in 1.7.2 |
| Prices on out-of-stock configurable products | ✅ | Out-of-stock configurable products render their price on the category, search, compare and wishlist listings, matching simple, bundle and grouped products. Added in 1.7.2 |
Extensions & add-ons
Companion extensions that integrate with Venta. The minimum Venta version is the release where support was introduced. Extensions marked "Any" are standalone Magento/Hyvä modules that work with any current Venta version. See the Extensions Overview for the full catalog.
| Extension | Status | Min. Venta | Docs / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smile ElasticSuite integration | ✅ | Bundled | Search, autocomplete, and layered navigation |
| Out-of-Stock Notifications (Back in Stock) | ✅ | 1.5.11 | Docs |
| Social Login | ✅ | 1.5.11 | Docs |
| Product Attachments | ✅ | 1.5.11 | Docs |
| Performance Optimizations | ✅ | 1.6.2.1 | Unified FPC vary with AJAX catalog prices. Docs |
| Style Guide (development) | ✅ | 1.6.0 | Docs |
| Company Lookup and EU VAT | ✅ | Any | Company autofill, VIES validation, EU VAT rules. Docs |
| Klaviyo Subscription | ✅ | Any | SMS consent and cart merge on top of the official Klaviyo extension. Docs |
| Image Resizer | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| GDPR | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| SEO | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| Product Feed | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| Tracking | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| Brand (Shop By Brand) | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| Blog compatibility (Mageplaza) | ✅ | Any | Docs |
| PayPal | ✅ | 1.6.4 | Docs |
| User Type Switcher (B2B) | ✅ | 1.6.4 | Docs |
| Post Purchase | ✅ | 1.7.0 | Rule-based follow-up offers emailed after an order, with a signed one-click link and optional combined fulfillment. Requires Hyvä Checkout. Docs |