CStore Essentials vs BP Better
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
BP Better
This app keeps businesses and stations informed about retail events, promotions, and training. It provides notifications and a calendar to help deliver an enhanced customer experience.
- Event notifications
- Retail event calendar
- Promotional asset access
- Offer details
- Training modules
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Stay up-to-speed on all that’s happening at bp with notifications, a calendar of retail events, promotional assets, offer details, and training to help businesses and stations deliver a better bp experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BP Better at 100% against CStore Essentials's 40%. BP Better also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 30 months). CStore Essentials's advantage is ratings volume (62 vs 17) 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.
BP Better holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 100% of BP Better's.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, BP Better every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 17, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | BP Better |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (62 ratings) | 4.5 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 6 weeks — 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 | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excentus | BP Products North America |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
BP Better
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
BP Better
No in-app purchases
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