CStore Essentials vs mercuryone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
mercuryone
Manage your convenience store's back office operations remotely. Monitor sales, track transactions, and update item pricing on the go. This cloud-based solution offers anytime, anywhere business oversight.
- Monitor store transactions
- Check sales data
- Update item prices
- Cloud-based back office
- Remote business management
- On-the-go access
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mercury|one is a cloud based mobile c-store back office product. This app allows store owners to monitor store transactions, check sales data, update item prices and much more. Welcome to a whole new way of looking at your business on the go, anytime, anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CStore Essentials at 40% against mercuryone's 0%. CStore Essentials also leads on rating (3.0 vs 2.7) and ratings volume (62 vs 15). mercuryone's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 30 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
CStore Essentials holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 0% of mercuryone's.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, mercuryone every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | mercuryone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (62 ratings) — better | 2.7 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Excentus | Aboveo LLC |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
mercuryone
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
mercuryone
No in-app purchases
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