CStore Essentials vs LottoReco
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
LottoReco
This app helps convenience stores manage lottery scratcher inventory. Cashiers can scan ticket barcodes to create opening and closing stock reports, ensuring accuracy and reducing errors. It securely syncs data with backend systems for reconciliation and improved operational efficiency.
- Scan lottery ticket barcodes
- Submit opening/closing stock reports
- Integrates with lottery/POS systems
- Secure data syncing
- Reduces manual entry errors
- Improves operational efficiency
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This application is designed for convenience stores to efficiently manage the inventory and sales of lottery scratchers. Cashiers can easily scan lottery ticket barcodes at the beginning and end of their shifts to submit opening and closing stock reports. The app supports valid lottery ticket barcodes only, ensuring accuracy and preventing manual entry errors. All scanned data is securely synced with backend systems, allowing reconciliation with ticket purchase and activation records from the lottery system as well as POS sales data. This streamlined process helps store managers maintain accountability, reduce shrinkage, and improve operational efficiency. Key Features: Scan valid lottery barcodes quickly Submit opening and closing inventory reports Integrates with lottery and POS systems Easy to use for cashiers with minimal training
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LottoReco at 5.0 against CStore Essentials's 2.8. LottoReco also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 30 months). CStore Essentials's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). 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.
LottoReco holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CStore Essentials has 68 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, LottoReco every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | LottoReco |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excentus | Sofmen Inc |
Customer experience
CStore Essentials
LottoReco
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
LottoReco
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
LottoReco
No in-app purchases
Questions
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