CStore Essentials vs M&C Distro
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
M&C Distro
This business-to-business ordering platform allows verified wholesale customers to browse catalogs, search products, view pricing, and submit orders. It facilitates reordering past purchases and saving favorite items for efficient procurement. An active M&C Distribution account is required for access.
- Browse wholesale catalog
- Search for products
- View case pricing
- Build and submit orders
- Reorder previous purchases
- Save favorite items
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M&C Distro is a wholesale B2B ordering platform exclusively for verified M&C Distribution customers. Approved customers can browse the wholesale catalog, search for products, view case pricing, build orders, reorder previous purchases, save favorite items, and submit orders directly to M&C. This app does not accept or process payments. All orders are submitted to M&C Distribution for review and fulfillment according to the customer’s existing business account and payment terms. An active verified M&C customer account is required to sign in and use the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: M&C Distro at 5.0 against CStore Essentials's 2.8. M&C Distro also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 30 months). CStore Essentials's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). 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.
M&C Distro 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CStore Essentials ships an update every 30 months, M&C Distro monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CStore Essentials | M&C Distro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (68 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Excentus | Code Verse X |
In-app purchases
CStore Essentials
No in-app purchases
M&C Distro
No in-app purchases
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