CStore Essentials vs Modisoft Back Office
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
Modisoft Back Office
This application provides a comprehensive back-office solution to enhance business efficiency and customer satisfaction. It offers tools for remote monitoring, sales tracking, inventory, and employee management across multiple locations.
- Remote business monitoring
- Customized reporting
- Multi-location dashboard
- Real-time sales tracking
- Inventory management
- Employee management and payroll
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Modisoft offers a comprehensive back-office application designed to streamline operations across various business types from convenience stores to full-service restaurants. Modisoft aims to increase revenue, improve customer engagement, and simplify the management of multiple locations, making it an all-in-one solution for enhancing business efficiency and customer satisfaction. Key Features Include: Insights - Monitor your business remotely - View customized reports - Manage multiple locations in one cohesive dashboard - Track sales in real-time - Daily reconciliation - Fuel and Lottery sales reports Multi-location Management - View data from multiple locations in one consolidated dashboard - Manage employees across multiple locations Inventory Management - Simplifies stock tracking - Automates reordering - Reduces purchase errors Employee Management - Track timesheets - Schedule shifts - Conduct payroll Take control of your business with Modisoft.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Modisoft Back Office at 4.2 against CStore Essentials's 2.8. Modisoft Back Office also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 30 months) and review sentiment (68% vs 40%). CStore Essentials's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Modisoft Back Office holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 52 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 68% of Modisoft Back Office's.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, Modisoft Back Office every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | Modisoft Back Office |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) | 4.2 (52 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | 68.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excentus | Modisoft Inc |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
Modisoft Back Office
Bugs and 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
Modisoft Back Office
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
Modisoft Back Office
No in-app purchases
Questions
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