CStoreOffice® Mobile vs CStore Essentials
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CStoreOffice® Mobile
Manage convenience stores and gas stations remotely, 24/7. Gain operational visibility, improve sales, manage inventory, and increase profits with real-time data and reporting. Access live camera feeds and control price book changes.
- Remote operations management
- Inventory tracking and counting
- Real-time sales and profit data
- Price book management
- Live camera monitoring
- Multi-location support
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Manage your c-store or gas station from anywhere, 24/7, with Petrosoft’s CStoreOffice® Mobile. Using CStoreOffice® Mobile is a great way to stay connected to your c-store or gas station. And, whether you manage one or multiple stores or gas stations, you’ll have the data you need to improve sales, manage your inventory effectively, and increase profit. Over 1,000 people use CStoreOffice® Mobile daily. If you’re a CStoreOffice® subscriber, download CStoreOffice® Mobile for FREE today so you can remotely: • Gain complete visibility into your operations from anywhere, 24/7 • Manage a single store or multiple locations • Use real-time data to help make better business decisions • Control price book changes • View and count current store inventory levels • Monitor your business with live camera access • Access real-time data to minimize / prevent theft shrinkage and SO MUCH MORE! If you’re a customer of Acumera, Bulloch, or Mako*, you can use CStoreOffice® Mobile for FREE to remotely access and view your store data using approximately 80 different reports. If you want to learn more about CStoreOffice® Mobile*, download the FREE app and sign up to review sample data in the DEMO ACCOUNT. It’s a no-risk, high-reward opportunity for you to see what the app can do for you. Download CStoreOffice® Mobile for FREE today. * If you are not a CStoreOffice subscriber certain functionality will not be available, including making price book changes, viewing and counting store inventory levels, monitoring your business with live camera access, using real-time data to minimize / prevent theft shrinkage
CStore Essentials
Monitor and manage all your retail stores remotely from your smartphone. Get real-time insights into sales, transactions, and inventory changes, even when you're away.
- Remote store management
- Live transaction monitoring
- Full transaction receipts
- Live department and gas sales
- Add new items
- Change item prices
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Manage all your stores from your phone. Stay on top of everything happening in your store even when you are not present. - View full day reports - See live transactions as they are happing on your register - See full transaction receipts with line voids, full transaction voids and no sale register openings - See live department and gas sales - Add new items and change prices for existing item
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CStoreOffice® Mobile at 3.4 against CStore Essentials's 2.8. CStoreOffice® Mobile also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 30 months). CStore Essentials's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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.
CStoreOffice® Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 34 and 68 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of CStoreOffice® Mobile's written reviews are positive against 40% of CStore Essentials's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CStoreOffice® Mobile ships an update every 2 months, CStore Essentials every 30 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | CStoreOffice® Mobile | CStore Essentials |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (34 ratings) — better | 2.8 (68 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | 39.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 | 68 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 30 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Petrosoft, LLC | Excentus |
Customer experience
CStoreOffice® Mobile
CStore Essentials
Bugs and requests
CStoreOffice® Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
CStore Essentials
Reported bugs
18 issues- App doesn't work for a week
- Sign in problem after new app download
- Session expired, infinite relog loop
- Service down for over a week
- Live data doesn't work first hour of sales
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- Live data doesn't work past 12am
- Camera not focusing while scanning
- iOS scan for price change not working
- Live Sales stops updating every few days
- Sales data upload crashes
- Random charges to credit card
- Back office not working every week
- Desktop site and app layout incongruent
- Cost updating iffy, deletes cost
- Adding new items creates 12 UPC digits, causing errors
- App not updated for a year (iOS)
- Screen inaccuracy on iPad
- No optimization for iPhone X
Requested features
11 requests- Ability to change gas prices from the app
- Add ability to scan tags
- Add tender detail in live transactions
- Add departments and categories view
- Add ability to see departments and categories overall
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- Standalone lottery app for nightly reading
- Lottery app for non-gas station stores
- Bulk update for cost price
- Update app for iPhone X optimization
- Update software for iPad compatibility
- Update app to show clock, battery, signal
In-app purchases
CStoreOffice® Mobile
No in-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Which has better reviews, CStoreOffice® Mobile or CStore Essentials?
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