CStore Essentials vs Tabsy LPM
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
Tabsy LPM
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Tabsy LPM is the field-operations command center for contractors. Run your projects, crews, estimates, and invoices from your phone or tablet — without bouncing between a dozen apps. Built for small-to-midsize construction, solar, roofing, and trades teams who want the polish of enterprise software without the enterprise complexity. WHAT YOU GET • Projects, work orders, and tasks — see everything on today's schedule, with clean drill-downs into every job • Estimates and change orders — build line-item quotes from your catalog, send for signature, track when the client opens them • E-signature contracts — fully signed documents, audit trail, automatic project conversion when all parties sign • Invoices and payments — send, track, and record payments; watch overdue balances without a spreadsheet • Time tracking and HR — clock in, submit timesheets, request PTO, get approvals • Vendors and expenses — log receipts with a photo, route through manager approval, tag to a project • Messaging — project-scoped channels plus direct messages with @mentions and push • Smart notifications — real-time alerts when your estimates are viewed, contracts are signed, invoices are paid, or tasks are due, with per-event preferences MODE-AWARE INTERFACE Tabsy LPM adapts to your role. Sales reps see their pipeline; project managers see their active jobs; office admins see invoicing and AR; field techs see today's work orders; executives see a read-only overview of the whole business. BUILT FOR MULTI-TENANT TEAMS Your data lives in your own tenant, isolated from every other business. Role-based permissions let you decide who sees pricing, who approves expenses, and who manages users — without complicated setup. REQUIRES AN ACCOUNT Tabsy LPM is a business app — you need an active Tabsy tenant to sign in. Contact your administrator or visit tabsy.co to learn more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tabsy LPM at every 5 days against CStore Essentials's every 30 months. CStore Essentials's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). 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 ships an update every 30 months, Tabsy LPM every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on July 17, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | Tabsy LPM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (62 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 40.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Excentus | NameVerse, Inc |
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
Tabsy LPM
No in-app purchases









