CStore Essentials vs Verifone Back Office Solution
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
Verifone Back Office Solution
Manage your convenience store or gas station operations with a cloud-based solution offering a 360-degree view of your business. Track sales, inventory, and transactions in real-time from a single device.
- 360-degree business view
- Real-time sales reporting
- Inventory tracking
- Transaction monitoring
- Cloud-based organization
- Fuel and inventory management
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The Verifone BackOffice gives you a full 360 view of your business from any angle. Verifone’s cloud-based BackOffice saves time and effort by keeping your site organized and streamlined. Get live updates on daily reporting, sales, inventory tracking, and much more all on a single device. Your convenience store and gas station sites process a high volume of transactions and requires powerful data tracking to match. Whether it’s fuel and inventory management, foodservice, or tobacco and lottery sales, Verifone’s Back Office solution is the management tool that makes the most of what your Verifone Commander Site Controller can do. The cloud-based framework ties your site details together all in one place, transforming the way merchants manage their back-end processes. View critical details like real-time transaction monitoring, price, SKUs, and more to understand how product is moving through your establishment at every turn. Smooth, error-free inventory tracking, calculation, and management is as easy as it is efficient. Verifone’s BackOffice solution lets you run your operation just as you did before, but with greater autonomy, accessibility, and accuracy across every aspect of your business.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CStore Essentials at 40% against Verifone Back Office Solution's 0%. CStore Essentials also leads on ratings volume (62 vs 5). Verifone Back Office Solution's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 30 months) and rating (3.4 vs 3.0). 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.
Verifone Back Office Solution holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CStore Essentials has 62 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of CStore Essentials's written reviews are positive against 0% of Verifone Back Office Solution'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, Verifone Back Office Solution every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on July 17, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | Verifone Back Office Solution |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (62 ratings) | 3.4 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Excentus | VeriFone Inc. |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
Verifone Back Office Solution
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
Verifone Back Office Solution
No in-app purchases
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