Comparison

CStore Essentials vs Retail360®

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Remote store management
  • Live transaction monitoring
  • Full transaction receipts
  • Live department and gas sales
  • Add new items
  • Change item prices
Features
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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

About

Retail360®

This app provides real-time inventory tracking and management for businesses. It helps optimize stock levels, minimize waste, and analyze sales data to ensure products are in the right place at the right time. Streamline inventory processes and spend more time with customers.

Highlights
  • Real-time inventory tracking
  • Goods receipt monitoring
  • Sales analysis and comparison
  • Price book management
  • Invoice payment management
  • Shelf tag generation
  • Virtual basket management
Features
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Petrosoft’s Retail360 is a comprehensive inventory management app that helps track and manage your inventory lifecycle in real-time. Retail360 instantly syncs with your handheld or mobile devices 24/7, so you can access your data from anywhere. The Retail360 app is easy to use and allows you to centralize and optimize inventory management, minimize shrinkage and spoilage, and avoid over purchasing items. Here’s what you can do 24/7 with the Retail360 app: - Track inventory levels on site, in real-time - Monitor the receipt of goods, work with check-ins and credit memos, and accept invoices - Manage overstocks, dead stocks, spoilage, and damaged goods - Analyze and compare sales by item, group, and between locations to ensure you have the right products in the right place at the right time - Access your price book and adjust pricing by location, item, or group - Manage invoice payments and write-offs - Create multiple virtual baskets and place items - Quickly generate and print accurate shelf tags - Manage items in virtual baskets - Minimize time and resources needed for inventory management processes - And much more. Using Petrosoft’s Retail360 app, you’ll spend less time in your back office and more time with your customers. Download the Retail360 app today.

Screenshots

CStore Essentials4 screens
Retail360®4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Retail360® at every 3 weeks against CStore Essentials's every 30 months. Retail360® also leads on rating (3.4 vs 3.0). CStore Essentials's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 20%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Retail360® holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 16 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 20% of Retail360®'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, Retail360® every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
CStore Essentials versus Retail360®: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCStore EssentialsRetail360®
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (62 ratings)3.4 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.5% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings62 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 30 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.3
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB215 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperExcentusPetrosoft, LLC

Customer experience

CStore Essentials

All ratings62 ratings
Positive40.3%
Neutral12.9%
Negative46.8%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive39.5%
Neutral14.0%
Negative46.5%

Retail360®

All ratings16 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

In-app purchases

None

CStore Essentials

No in-app purchases

None

Retail360®

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CStore Essentials free?
CStore Essentials is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Retail360® free?
Retail360® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CStore Essentials or Retail360®?
Retail360® is rated higher. CStore Essentials averages 3.0 out of 5 from 62 ratings, while Retail360® averages 3.4 from 16 ratings.
Do CStore Essentials or Retail360® have ads?
Neither CStore Essentials nor Retail360® shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CStore Essentials or Retail360®?
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, and Retail360® every 3 weeks. Most recently, CStore Essentials was updated on October 3, 2026 and Retail360® on September 20, 2026.

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