CStore Essentials vs Liquor Orderer
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
Liquor Orderer
This app allows users to scan liquor bottle barcodes or tags to place State of Michigan liquor orders. It currently supports Michigan but plans to expand to other regions. Registration and cost are required through the developer.
- Scan liquor bottle barcodes
- Scan Saxon Inc. provided tags
- Place State of Michigan liquor orders
- Utilize built-in camera or scanner
- Expandable to other regions
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Scan liquor bottle bar codes or tag bar codes provided by Saxon Inc. and place your State of Michigan liquor orders directly. Currently only available in Michigan but will expand as customer demand is created in other governmental ordering systems. Use your built-in camera or scanner equipment provided by Saxon Inc. to scan codes. Cost and registration are required so please contact Saxon Inc to learn more and purchase your registration key. Visit for more information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Liquor Orderer at 5.0 against CStore Essentials's 2.8. Liquor Orderer also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 30 months). CStore Essentials's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 5) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). 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.
Liquor Orderer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CStore Essentials has 68 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, Liquor Orderer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | Liquor Orderer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 3 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 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Excentus | Saxon Inc. |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
Liquor Orderer
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
Liquor Orderer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
Liquor Orderer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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