CStore Essentials vs SSCS HHS
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
SSCS HHS
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HHS2 Lite brings SSCS item lookup to your iPhone. Log in with your SSCS account, download your site's item list, and look up items from anywhere in the store. Scan a barcode with your camera or type a UPC to instantly see an item's description, department, pack size, cost, retail price, and margin. Check live quantity on hand and recent sales pulled straight from your SSCS server. Built for convenience store operators using SSCS Computerized Daily Book, HHS2 Lite runs quick lookups on the phone already in your po
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CStore Essentials at 2.8 against SSCS HHS's 1.0. CStore Essentials also leads on ratings volume (68 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). SSCS HHS's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 30 months). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CStore Essentials holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CStore Essentials has 68 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, SSCS HHS fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | SSCS HHS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excentus | SSCS Inc. |
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
SSCS HHS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
SSCS HHS
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is CStore Essentials free?
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