Best GloriaFood alternative - updated 2026-06-11
GloriaFood is being discontinued: new signups are already closed and the platform is scheduled to shut down on April 30, 2027. If you run a restaurant on it, the urgent question is not whether to switch but where to go and how to move your menu and customers without losing orders. This guide leads with the facts, compares GloriaFood to Orderitto and the other alternatives owners are weighing, and walks through migrating off GloriaFood step by step.
Start with the facts
For years, GloriaFood was the default answer when an independent restaurant wanted free online ordering. It was free software, it took no commission on direct orders, and it embedded a simple ordering widget on your site. That era is ending. GloriaFood is now owned by Oracle, and industry sources report that the platform is being discontinued: new signups have already closed, and the full shutdown is scheduled for April 30, 2027. Existing accounts keep working until then, but no new restaurants can join, and once the platform goes dark, your ordering link, menu, and any customer data you never exported can go with it. Confirm the current details directly with GloriaFood or Oracle before you plan around the date — and treat it as a hard deadline, not a someday.
The reason this matters so much is that online ordering is no longer a side feature — it is a growing share of restaurant revenue. The numbers below are the backdrop to your switch: how much margin is at stake, what marketplaces charge if you fall back to them, and the baseline cost of accepting card payments anywhere.
The average independent restaurant runs on a 3-5% net profit margin. Giving 25-30% of online order revenue to a third-party app erases the margin entirely on those orders.
Source: National Restaurant Association Operations Report · 2024DoorDash's marketplace delivery commission ranges from 15% on Basic to 30% on Premier; pickup is listed separately at 6%.
Source: DoorDash Merchant Pricing (public site) · 2026Uber Eats charges restaurants 15-30% commission per delivery order depending on plan tier (Basic, Plus, Premium).
Source: Uber Eats Merchant Pricing · 202660% of consumers say they order delivery or takeout at least once a week, and digital channels now account for the majority of off-premise restaurant transactions.
Source: National Restaurant Association State of the Restaurant Industry Report · 2025Stripe's standard online card processing fee is 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction — the platform-agnostic baseline cost of accepting card payments online.
Source: Stripe Pricing · 2026What you stand to lose
A shutdown is not just an inconvenience — it is a deadline on assets that live inside the platform. Knowing exactly what is at risk tells you what to rescue first.
The GloriaFood widget on your website and the hosted ordering page stop working when the platform shuts down. Any 'Order Online' button pointing at it becomes a dead end, so every link needs to be repointed at a replacement before April 2027.
Every category, item, modifier, and price you built in GloriaFood lives in GloriaFood. There is no clean one-click full export, so if you do not record it before the account closes, you rebuild it from scratch on the new system.
This is the expensive loss. Your customer list and order history are the foundation for repeat orders and marketing. If they go dark with the platform, you are starting your customer relationships over — which is far costlier than any monthly fee.
The restaurants that get hurt are the ones that wait until ordering stops and then scramble. The same migration that is calm and low-risk months ahead becomes an emergency the week the link breaks. Time is the asset you protect by moving early.
Be genuinely neutral
There is no single "best" replacement — there is the best replacement for what you actually valued about GloriaFood. Owners moving off it are weighing four real options. Here is the honest version of each, including where Orderitto is not the right call, so you can choose on the merits rather than on a pitch.
The only genuinely $0 like-for-like replacement for free GloriaFood. You host it, connect your own payment processor, install updates, and handle security and bugs yourself. No per-order commission, but the cost moves entirely to your own labor and risk. Closest to GloriaFood on price, furthest from it on convenience.
If you already run Square or Clover, their bundled online ordering can be the fastest switch and is often commission-free on direct orders. The catch is lock-in: you are tying ordering to a POS ecosystem and its card-processing rate, and leaving later means moving your POS too.
The closest successor to what most owners actually liked about GloriaFood: a branded ordering page with no marketplace commission, but with real support, onboarding, and a platform that is not being discontinued. You pay a predictable flat fee instead of $0, and you keep your brand and customer data.
Free to join and useful for being found, but the marketplace takes a percentage of every order it touches and usually keeps the customer relationship. This is the opposite of what GloriaFood was for — it is not a replacement for free direct ordering, it is a different, more expensive channel.
Side-by-side
Orderitto is the closest like-for-like successor to what most owners liked about GloriaFood: commission-free direct ordering with a branded page. The honest difference is that GloriaFood was free software you ran yourself and is going away, while Orderitto is a done-for-you platform with a flat monthly fee that is built to keep running. Here is the full picture, including where GloriaFood was genuinely good.
| Feature | Orderitto | GloriaFood |
|---|---|---|
Status in 2026 The core reason this comparison exists — GloriaFood is being discontinued | Active, accepting new restaurants | Shutting down April 30, 2027; new signups closed |
Software / monthly fee | $149-$249/mo flat (+ one-time setup) | $0 software (free plan) |
Per-order commission on direct orders Both are commission-free on direct orders — the like-for-like part | None | None |
Card processing | Your own Stripe (2.9% + 30¢ typical) | Connected processor / paid add-on |
Setup | Done-for-you onboarding | DIY self-setup |
Branded ordering page GloriaFood widget embeds on your site; branding is limited | Partial | |
Restaurant owns customer data | Until shutdown | |
Native iOS / Android app | On Pro plan | Paid add-on |
Loyalty / promotions | On Pro plan | Built-in promotions, no loyalty app |
Migration help | Free menu + data migration | |
Best fit | Owners who want commission-free ordering kept running for them | Was free DIY ordering — now a platform you must leave |
Both platforms are commission-free on direct orders — that row is the like-for-like part. The deciding factors are that GloriaFood is shutting down and Orderitto handles setup, branding, and your customer data for you.
Step by step
A migration is calm work when you do it months ahead and an emergency when you do it the week ordering breaks. Here is the six-step path from a live GloriaFood account to a running replacement, in the order that protects your menu, your customers, and your revenue.
Copy your full menu structure out of the GloriaFood admin: every category, item, modifier group, option, and price. GloriaFood has no clean one-click full export, so plan to record this manually — a spreadsheet or screenshots work. Do this first, because rebuilding a menu from memory after the platform goes dark is slow and error-prone.
This is the asset that matters most. Export whatever customer contact data and order history your GloriaFood dashboard exposes. Your customer list — names, emails, phone numbers, order frequency — is what makes a switch worth it, and it is exactly what disappears if you wait until the account closes. Get it out now, even before you have chosen a replacement.
Decide which of the four alternatives fits you: a $0 self-hosted tool if you are technical, a POS add-on if you are already on Square or Clover, a commission-free flat-rate platform if you want it done for you, or a marketplace only for discovery. Match the choice to order volume and how much of the work you want to own.
Load your menu into the new system and configure pickup, delivery, hours, and payments. With a done-for-you platform like Orderitto, this step is handled with you during onboarding — your menu is rebuilt, your Stripe account is connected, and your branded ordering page is built so the experience matches your restaurant rather than a generic widget.
Point online payments at your own Stripe account so revenue lands directly with you at standard card rates, with no per-order platform cut layered on top. Test a live order end to end — place it, confirm it prints or appears in the kitchen, and confirm the funds settle — before you flip the switch publicly.
Swap your website's order button and any printed or social links to the new ordering page, and update your Google Business Profile order link. Run both in parallel for a short overlap if you can, then retire the GloriaFood widget. Tell your regulars once — a quick 'we moved our online ordering, same menu' note keeps repeat orders flowing through the transition.
Orderitto fit
Orderitto is not a $0 tool, and we will not pretend it is. It is the commission-free, flat-priced, done-for-you option for GloriaFood users who want the same no-commission direct ordering on a platform that is not being discontinued.
Like GloriaFood, Orderitto takes no per-order commission on your direct orders. You keep your order revenue minus standard card processing — not a marketplace's 15-30%. The part of GloriaFood you valued most carries straight over.
Plans are public and flat: Starter is $799 setup plus $149/month, Pro is $1,299 setup plus $249/month and adds a mobile app, loyalty, promo codes, and integrations, and a one-time Founders plan ($4,999 plus $799/year) locks pricing for life. No per-order math, no hidden tiers.
Instead of self-setup, Orderitto rebuilds your menu with you, connects your own Stripe account, and stands up your branded ordering page during onboarding — including help moving your menu and customer data off GloriaFood so the switch is calm, not a scramble.
A branded ordering page and website plus your own customer list mean repeat guests cost you nothing extra to serve, and your data is yours rather than tied to a platform that can be discontinued. That is the opposite of relying on a tool that is going away.
What 'free' really means after GloriaFood — DIY tools, POS add-ons that still take a cut, and where flat commission-free pricing wins.
The full step-by-step setup guide — your playbook for standing up a replacement after you export from GloriaFood.
The complete buying guide to choosing a direct, commission-free ordering platform.
How the main platforms compare on commission, branding, and customer data.
Side-by-side pricing for free and paid systems so you can budget your replacement.
See the flat, commission-free plans and what each one includes.
Yes. GloriaFood, the long-time free restaurant ordering tool now owned by Oracle, is being discontinued. Multiple industry sources report that new signups have already closed and the platform is scheduled to fully shut down on April 30, 2027. Existing accounts keep working until then, but no new restaurants can join, and the safe move is to export your data and migrate to a replacement well before the deadline. Always confirm the current shutdown timeline directly with GloriaFood or Oracle before you finalize your plan.
It depends on what you actually valued about GloriaFood. If you want a truly $0 tool and have the technical skill, an open-source self-hosted system like TastyIgniter has no software fee but you host and maintain it yourself. If you want GloriaFood's done-for-you simplicity without losing your brand or customer data, a commission-free flat-rate platform is the closer like-for-like successor. Orderitto is not $0, but it is commission-free on direct orders, which is what most owners actually meant when they chose 'free' GloriaFood in the first place.
Log into your GloriaFood admin and pull three things while the platform is still live: your full menu (categories, items, modifiers, and prices), your order history, and — most importantly — your customer list with contact details. GloriaFood does not offer a one-click full export of everything, so plan to copy your menu structure manually or screenshot it, and request any customer or order data the dashboard exposes. The customer list is the real asset; it is what makes any replacement worth switching to, and it is what disappears if you wait until the platform goes dark.
Only if you wait too long. Your customers belong to your restaurant, not to GloriaFood — but the contact data lives inside GloriaFood until you export it. If you migrate early, you carry your menu and customer list to the new system and your guests simply order from a new branded page. If you wait until the platform shuts down, the ordering link breaks and any data you never exported is gone. The migration risk is entirely about timing, which is why exporting now matters more than which replacement you pick.
GloriaFood was free software that you set up yourself; Orderitto is a done-for-you, commission-free platform with flat pricing. Both keep direct orders commission-free, but Orderitto adds full onboarding, a branded ordering page and website, menu management handled with you, your own Stripe account, and optional native iOS and Android apps and loyalty on the Pro plan. The trade is simple: GloriaFood cost $0 in software but is going away, while Orderitto costs a flat monthly fee and is built to keep running and to own your brand and customer data.
Orderitto is not $0, but its pricing is flat and public, with no per-order commission on direct orders. Starter is $799 setup plus $149/month, Pro is $1,299 setup plus $249/month and adds a mobile app, loyalty, and integrations, and a one-time Founders plan ($4,999 plus $799/year) locks pricing for life. You also keep your own Stripe account at standard card-processing rates (typically 2.9% plus 30¢). The honest comparison is that GloriaFood saved you the monthly fee but is shutting down, while Orderitto charges a predictable flat rate and stays.
Now, not in 2027. The platform is scheduled to shut down on April 30, 2027, but the restaurants that get hurt are the ones that wait until orders stop. Exporting your menu and customer data and standing up a replacement is calm, low-risk work when you do it months ahead and an emergency when you do it the week ordering breaks. Treat the shutdown date as a hard deadline and aim to be fully migrated well before it.
Orderitto gives restaurants a branded, commission-free ordering page with menu management and payments — flat pricing, no per-order cut, and free help moving your menu and customer data off GloriaFood before the April 2027 shutdown. Book a free demo to see it on your own menu.