CStore Essentials vs My NRS Store
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
My NRS Store
Manage your retail business remotely with this app, offering access to sales statistics, inventory, and pricebook management. Engage customers with entertainment content on POS screens and easily shop for products from wholesale partners.
- Remote POS system access
- Sales statistics
- Inventory management
- Pricebook editing
- Wholesale product shopping
- Customer engagement content
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You can’t always be at your store, but your store can always be with you. The My NRS Store App allows you to access the main features of your National Retail Solutions POS system from anywhere as long as you have internet connection. Your customers will be VERY engaged with the TV Screens attached to the POS because now alongside transaction data, we have Entertainment Content like News, Lifestyle Topics, Sports & many other forms of Entertainment. Access popular features like Sales Statistics and Inventory. Easily scan items and add them to your store’s Pricebook. Make changes to Vendors, Users, Departments, Promotions, and more! The app also lists popular products for sale from wholesale partners so you can shop for your store from the comfort of your home. No matter how many stores or POS systems you have, you can easily access them all from one app account. Now you never have to let your finger off the pulse of your business!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: My NRS Store at monthly against CStore Essentials's every 30 months. My NRS Store also leads on rating (3.1 vs 2.8). CStore Essentials's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 28%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). 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.
My NRS Store holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 161 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 28% of My NRS Store's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, My NRS Store monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | My NRS Store |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) | 3.1 (161 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews — better | 27.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 68 | 161 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Excentus | National Retail Solutions, Inc |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
My NRS Store
Bugs and requests
CStore Essentials
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
My NRS Store
Reported bugs
15 issues- App crashes frequently
- App lags and is slow
- Camera does not work or is blurry/blurry
- App force closes
- App does not open
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- App logs users out
- Sales data does not match system data
- Inventory becomes chaotic after updates
- UI issues with new updates
- Home screen features not working
- Website crashes when pulling sales data
- Cannot load pricebook products
- Barcode scanner does not focus
- Face ID login not working
- App not compatible with new iPhone software
Requested features
6 requests- Option to see individual transactions with time and date
- Search functionality for transactions
- Allow adding items to list when scanning
- Add quantity options when adding to list
- Option to choose camera for barcode scanning
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- Fix Face ID login issue
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
My NRS Store
No in-app purchases
Questions
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