CStore Essentials vs Hutchens Petro
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
Hutchens Petro
Manage your fuel accounts on the go. View prices, place orders, and access financial and sales history. Convenient access to your account information anytime, anywhere.
- View fuel prices
- Check EFT details
- Place fuel orders
- View and print invoices
- Access credit card history
- View sales history
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We are excited to announce our new iPhone app. Now you can access your account information anytime and anywhere at your convenience. Key Features: - View your latest fuel prices - Check your EFT details - Place fuel orders - View and print invoices - Access credit card history - View sales history and other reporting data
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hutchens Petro at 4.4 against CStore Essentials's 2.8. Hutchens Petro also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 30 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 40%). CStore Essentials's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). 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.
Hutchens Petro holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 37 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 50% of Hutchens Petro's.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, Hutchens Petro every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | Hutchens Petro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) | 4.4 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 37 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 2 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 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Excentus | PDS Solutions, LLC |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
Hutchens Petro
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
Hutchens Petro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
Hutchens Petro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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