PDI CStore Essentials 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

PDI CStore Essentials

2.0

(3)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About PDI CStore Essentials

PDI CStore Essentials is a convenience store system that helps businesses manage orders, inventories and loyalty programs via a unified platform. It allows managers to synchronize data, track expenses, monitor employees’ timesheets and generate custom reports in real-time.

Features of PDI CStore Essentials include mobile access, an activity dashboard, payment processing, employee management, analytics and more. The application lets administrators conduct audits, automate workflows and streamline point of sale (POS) operations.

Pricing is available on a monthly or annual license basis and support is extended via email, documentation, FAQs and other online measures.

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PDI CStore Essentials Pricing and Plans

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Free Version

Basic

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PDI CStore Essentials Features

Popular features found in Convenience Store
Barcode/Ticket Scanning
Commission Management
Customizable Reports
Discount Management
Fuel Management
Inventory Tracking
Lottery Management
Loyalty Program
Mobile Access
Multi-Location
Reporting & Statistics
Third-Party Integrations
More features of PDI CStore Essentials
Employee Management
Inventory Management
Order Management
Payment Processing
Price/Margin Management

PDI CStore Essentials User Reviews

Overall Rating

2.0

Ratings Breakdown

33%

67%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

2.0

Value for money

2.5

Customer support

2.0

Functionality

2.5

Have you used PDI CStore Essentials and would like to share your experience with others?

Jose' R.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

PDI/Retail Suite PriceBook User

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software is a fully integrated solution that supports multiple POS Systems in stores. We currently have over 2700 stores in one PDI Instance and looking to grow.

Cons:

As a multi-business unit user the functionality to handle mix & match promotions needs improvements for reporting the current active lists and associated promotions

Jay H.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed November 2015

Pass on this software

I run a busy c-store with this system. First , it is very non- user friendly. You have to go to several different places to check your sales or any reports. Second, it is extremely time consuming. Just to get an order off your handheld can take up to ten minutes per vendor. Third, audits are painful. You cannot see your inventory while counting and then to find your audit and a several step process and reading it is very hard as well. Fourth, any backloads can take a day or a week to do. Your inventory numbers are never right and any time. I am very unhappy that we have this software and would never recommend it to anyone.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Michael E.

Retail

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2017

Horrible system

First, this system is not even close to being user friendly. Everything has to be put in to the decimal, you have to go to several different menus to get what you need and the system takes forever to load anything. Second, there are too many places you have to go to navigate this system. The overall look makes it hard to find anything. Third, if there are any mistakes from more than 24 hours ago then you cannot go back to fix them. This system has added at least an hour of work to my plate everyday and we can never find anything that we need.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Importing vendors into the receiving menu from outside the store.

Cons:

Everything else.

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