Core vs 1stPOS App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Core
Streamline your business ordering process with this intuitive iOS application. Access your full catalog, track order history, and stay informed about promotions and new items. Improve accuracy and efficiency in managing your business operations.
- Full catalog visibility with costing
- 8-week order history tracking
- Promotional notifications and deals
- Reorder from past orders/invoices
- Barcode scanning via camera
- Access to promotional flyers
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Core-Mark’s revolutionary ordering application makes ordering easy and fun with any iOS device. Generate orders with greater accuracy and have access to important promotional information and tools to manage your business more efficiently. Key Features Include: • Full visibility to your entire ordering catalog along with costing information. • Access to 8-week order history, including average and last order quantities. • Notifications of pre-orders and deals. • Ability to create an order from a previous order or invoice. • Ability to use your camera to capture barcodes. • Promotional flyers and new item introductions. • Featuring Core-Mark PromoPowers and Smart Sets! Start ordering with Core-Mark for iOS today! Contact your Core-Mark representative for your unique log-in credentials.
1stPOS App
This business software streamlines sales transactions and manages various aspects of retail, wholesale, and hospitality operations. It offers features for inventory, customer loyalty, reporting, and financial tracking.
- Sales transaction management
- Inventory and stock control
- Customer loyalty programs
- Reporting modules
- Bookkeeping and accounting
- Debt and payment monitoring
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1stPOS company design and develop POS Software. POS systems have become one of the most complex software systems today .POS systems are used in just about every business of service and selling because of the varied features required by different businesses or end-users. POS systems initially served the retail, wholesale, and hospitality industries hence POS software suites included functionalities aside from managing sales transactions such as inventory, stock counting, vendor ordering, customer loyalty, reporting modules, purchase ordering, stock transferring, quotation issuing, barcode creating, bookkeeping , accounting invoicing, and monitoring of debts and outstanding payments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 1stPOS App at 5.0 against Core's 3.1. 1stPOS App also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). Core's advantage is ratings volume (59 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
1stPOS App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Core has 59 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Core | 1stPOS App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (59 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tiva Software, LLC | anand patel |
Customer experience
Core
1stPOS App
In-app purchases
Core
No in-app purchases
1stPOS App
No in-app purchases









