CStore Essentials vs H.T. Hackney Portal
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
H.T. Hackney Portal
This business application provides quick access to essential company information and order management tools. It offers features for tracking deliveries, viewing statements and invoices, and searching for product details. Contact your sales representative for access.
- Order Entry
- Order Check-in
- Pending Deliveries
- Velocity Reporting
- Statements & Invoices
- Item Search
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OVERVIEW Portal from the H.T. Hackney Company makes it easy for you to access all the most important feature that will put all the information that you need at your fingertips in a fast and simple app. FEATURES - Order Entry - Order Check-in - Pending Deliveries - Future Distributions - Promotional Ordering - Velocity Reporting - Statements - Invoices - Item Search - New Items - Discontinued Items - Price Changes Contact your HT Hackney Sales Rep for instructions for getting Portal today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: H.T. Hackney Portal at every 6 weeks against CStore Essentials's every 30 months. H.T. Hackney Portal also leads on rating (3.2 vs 2.8). CStore Essentials's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
H.T. Hackney Portal holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 36 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 36% of H.T. Hackney Portal'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, H.T. Hackney Portal every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | H.T. Hackney Portal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) | 3.2 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews — better | 36.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 36 |
| 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 | 247 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Excentus | The H.T. Hackney Co. |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
H.T. Hackney Portal
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
H.T. Hackney Portal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
H.T. Hackney Portal
No in-app purchases
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