Comparison

CStore Essentials vs Century Mobile

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

Century Mobile

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Managing your unique inventory needs is crucial to your efficiency and profitability. Many factors influence inventory needs and the impact of inventory management on your bottom line. Effective inventory management reduces labor costs, eliminates waste, and directly reduces costs. Often, identifying ways to improve inventory control results in identifying process improvements for the customer. NCD works closely with customers to develop unique solutions tailored to their specific business requirements. Century Mobile is designed to be simple, efficient, and beautiful, and it uses the latest technology to maximize speed and search capabilities while showing you your customer-specific pricing. Use our built-in scanner to add products to your order or search by keywords quickly. Easily take inventories with our speed entry and scanning options.

Screenshots

CStore Essentials4 screens
Century Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: CStore Essentials at 3 against Century Mobile's —. On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CStore Essentials versus Century Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCStore EssentialsCentury Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (68 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews39.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings68 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 30 months—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — better—
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB428 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperExcentusThe NCD

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
Show 6 more
  • 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

Century Mobile

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CStore Essentials

No in-app purchases

None

Century Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CStore Essentials free?
CStore Essentials is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Century Mobile free?
Century Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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