GloriaFood Alternatives, Compared on Sourced Figures
GloriaFood ends on 31 March 2027. Six questions to test any replacement against, and a comparison where every competitor figure is quoted from that vendor's own site, linked and dated.
The date is 31 March 2027, not 30 April
Oracle, which owns GloriaFood, states that full end of service is scheduled for 31 March 2027. A number of comparison sites and listicles still say 30 April 2027; that date comes from an earlier in-product notice and Oracle's own current statement supersedes it. GloriaFood is already in maintenance mode and is no longer accepting new signups.
- Source: “GloriaFood products and services are being discontinued, with full end of service scheduled for March 31, 2027” — Oracle, oracle.com/food-beverage, checked 3 September 2026
- Source: “GloriaFood has been discontinued and is no longer accepting new signups” — gloriafood.com, checked 3 September 2026
What you are actually replacing
A shortlist is only comparable once you know which parts of GloriaFood you used. It did four things, and it deliberately did not do several others.
Ordering on your own site, free
A widget dropped into an existing website that took pickup and delivery orders with no monthly fee and no commission. This is the part people mean when they say they liked GloriaFood, and it is the part that sets the bar: any replacement that takes a percentage of orders is not a like-for-like move, it is a different business model.
A branded app, as a paid add-on
Ordering apps under the restaurant’s own name were sold separately rather than included. So "does the replacement include apps" and "what do the apps cost" are two questions, and on several platforms the second one is where the price actually lives.
Promotions and an email list
Coupons, first-order discounts and the customer list built from orders. The list is the asset — see the data-export page, which puts it first precisely because it is the one thing that cannot be reconstructed after the service ends.
Very little else
No register, no kitchen display, no driver dispatch, no kiosk. Worth saying plainly, because it cuts both ways: a replacement that bundles all of those may be more than you need, and one that bundles none of them may leave you buying a second product in a year.
Six questions that separate the shortlist
Each one has a checkable answer. Ask them of every platform you are considering, including this one — the links go to where we answer them, so you can hold us to the same standard.
Does it take a percentage of your orders?
The single most consequential question, and the one where "free" platforms differ most. A commission tier is not automatically wrong — it is the right shape if your volume is genuinely low — but it scales with your success rather than with your costs, so run it against your actual monthly order count before comparing headline prices. Ask specifically whether the rate differs between orders placed on your own site and orders arriving from a marketplace.
What we chargeAre branded iOS and Android apps included, or an add-on?
GloriaFood sold them separately, so this is where a like-for-like comparison usually breaks. Two follow-ups decide it: are the apps published under YOUR developer account or the vendor’s, and who pays the annual store fees and handles review rejections. An app you do not own the listing for is an app you cannot take with you.
What is includedDoes it connect to the till you already have?
If you run Clover, Square or Toast, a platform that replaces your POS is a bigger project than a platform that syncs with it — and a platform that does neither means someone retypes every order. This is the question that most often decides the shortlist for a multi-location operator, and it is the one least likely to be answered on a pricing page.
POS integration, in detailDo you get your customer list out again?
You are moving because a platform is closing. The next move should be cheaper than this one. Ask what an export produces, in what format, and whether it includes marketing consent — and ask before you sign, because the honest answer is easier to get from a salesperson than from a support queue two years later.
What to capture from GloriaFoodDoes it work in your market, in your currency?
Several platforms in this category are strong in one region and thin everywhere else — tax handling, payment processors, delivery networks and language coverage all stop at a border that the marketing pages do not mention. Check that your payment processor is supported before anything else; it is the one that cannot be worked around.
Markets and pricing bandsCan it be live before 31 March 2027?
Menu rebuild, app store review, payment processor onboarding and staff training are all serial, not parallel, and app review alone is unpredictable. Work backwards from the date rather than forwards from today, and treat any answer that does not include app-store review as incomplete.
The migration planFive platforms, on their own published figures
Every competitor cell below is quoted from that vendor's own site, not from a review site or an analyst. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the cell says so rather than claiming the feature is missing.
| Supaorder | ChowNow | Flipdish | UpMenu | Restolabs | Fleksa | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commission on orders | None — no percentage of any order, at any volume | None on direct orders — ChowNow publishes unlimited commission-free direct ordering | Not published | None published | None — "No hidden fees. No commissions." | 8% on orders on the zero-monthly Flex plan; the paid tiers publish 0% on direct orders |
| Setup fee | Standard $500, currently waived for early customers | $119 – $499, published under "Additional Fees" | Not published — "upfront costs for hardware and implementation… can vary" | Free — published as "Setup Service: Free" | Not published | Onboarding "starts at 299/product group" |
| Branded iOS & Android apps | Included on every plan — published to the App Store and Google Play under your brand | Included, built and published by their team, plus a $99 annual Apple Developer fee listed as an additional fee | Included from the middle tier — the entry tier is website ordering only | Paid add-on at $49/month per location, published to the App Store and Google Play | Paid add-on — a branded iOS and Android app is a separate monthly line | Included from the Bundle tier — the entry tier is website ordering only |
| POS integrations | Two-way sync with Clover, Square and Toast | 20+ systems including Clover, Square, Toast, Revel, Lightspeed, Brink and Lavu | 15+ including Clover, Square, Toast, Lightspeed, Oracle Micros, Revel and TouchBistro | 20+ including Square, Clover, Toast, NCR Aloha, Oracle Simphony, Lightspeed and Zonal | Via ItsaCheckmate, which Restolabs describes as covering 100+ POS systems | Not applicable — Fleksa replaces your POS rather than syncing with one. Menu import from Toast, Square, Lightspeed, Aloha and Positouch is published |
| Pricing published publicly | Yes — every tier and currency is on /pricing | Yes — plans and additional fees are on their pricing page | Partly — subscription prices are published, transaction and setup costs are not | Yes, and unusually completely — plans, add-ons and per-message rates are all published | Their pricing page renders, but every plan price on it reads "$00/month Billed Annually" | Yes — plans, commission, hardware and fee schedule are all published |
Each vendor has a full fourteen-row comparison — including kitchen display, kiosk, dispatch, delivery networks, reporting and markets — with the vendor pages it was read from and the date it was checked: Supaorder vs ChowNow · Supaorder vs Flipdish · Supaorder vs UpMenu · Supaorder vs Restolabs · Supaorder vs Fleksa
The names that come up but are a different purchase
Lunchbox, Toast and Square appear in most listicles on this query, and they are not in the table above because they are not the same kind of buy. Toast and Square are full point-of-sale suites: ordering is one module of a hardware-and-payments platform, and moving to either is a till replacement rather than an ordering migration. Lunchbox sells to enterprise and multi-unit chains, and prices by quote. All three may well be right for you — but none of them publishes pricing in a form that can sit in a sourced table beside the others, and quoting a figure we cannot link to would break the rule that makes the rest of this page worth reading.
When we are not your answer
- You take a handful of orders a month. A flat per-location fee is the wrong shape at very low volume. A commission tier costs you almost nothing until you grow, and the arithmetic only turns in our favour once you have real direct volume.
- You are subject to German fiscalisation rules. Fleksa ships a TSE-compliant register and EU data residency for DACH operators. That is a legal requirement rather than a feature preference, and it is worth weighting accordingly.
- You want one system with no integration seam. If replacing your till is the point rather than the obstacle, a platform built as a POS first is arguing for exactly that, and our POS sync is solving a problem you do not have.
Asked about the move
When exactly does GloriaFood stop working?
Oracle states full end of service on 31 March 2027. You will see 30 April 2027 on a number of comparison sites and listicles; that date comes from an earlier in-product notice, and Oracle’s own current statement supersedes it. GloriaFood is already in maintenance mode and no longer accepting new signups, so the practical deadline is earlier than either date — order volume moves when your links and QR codes do.
Is there a free GloriaFood alternative?
There are platforms with a zero-monthly tier, and they pay for it with a commission on your orders — Fleksa publishes 8% on its zero-monthly plan, which is the most transparent example in this category. Whether that is cheaper than a flat fee is arithmetic, not opinion: multiply your monthly order value by the rate. For most restaurants doing meaningful direct volume it is more expensive, and it gets more expensive as you grow, which is the opposite of what you want from a platform you are moving to for the long term.
Do I have to rebuild my menu by hand?
On most platforms, yes. On Supaorder we rebuild it for you from whatever you can give us — a screenshot, a PDF, a photograph of a printed menu — because the menu is the largest single piece of work in a migration and it is the one most likely to stall it. Ask any platform on your shortlist whether menu rebuild is included or billed, and get the answer in writing.
What happens to my existing links and QR codes?
GloriaFood links stop working at end of service, and printed QR codes pointing at them become dead paper. Capture every place one appears before you move — your site, Google Business Profile, table cards, flyers, delivery bags — because the list is always longer than anyone expects. The data-export page treats this as its own asset class for that reason.
I am an agency with a book of GloriaFood clients, not one restaurant.
That is a different move with different questions — who owns the brand, the price, the invoice and each line of support — and it has its own page. Migrating a client book one restaurant at a time on retail terms is the expensive way to do it.
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