CStore Essentials vs Orders+
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
Orders+
This app streamlines order taking for businesses using Tiva’s Enterprise Connect. It allows for creating regular and pre-booked orders, managing credit changes, printing shelf tags, and electronically checking in deliveries. Users can also access historical data and scan barcodes for efficient inventory management.
- Create regular and pre-book orders
- Request credit and SRP changes
- Print and order shelf tags
- View and order from planograms/PDFs
- Electronically check in deliveries
- Review invoices and credits
- Scan barcodes
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Orders+ is a comprehensive order taking application for use with Tiva’s Enterprise Connect order management portal. • Create regular and pre-book orders; • Request credit and SRP changes; • Print and order shelf tags; • View and order from planograms and PDFs; • Check in deliveries electronically; • Review invoices and credits; • Access historical order data during the ordering process; • Scan barcodes using Camera and Bluetooth scanners; • Receive alerts for pre-booked items when ordering; • Store customized pricebooks for multiple locations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Orders+ at 100% against CStore Essentials's 40%. Orders+ also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.8) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 30 months). CStore Essentials's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 4) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). 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.
Orders+ holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CStore Essentials has 68 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 100% of Orders+'s.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, Orders+ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | Orders+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excentus | Tiva Software, LLC |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
Orders+
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
Orders+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
Orders+
No in-app purchases
