GloriaFood is shutting down on April 30, 2027. Here's what to do next.

What's actually happening

GloriaFood, the commission-free online ordering widget acquired by Oracle in 2021, is being permanently retired. This isn't a rumor or a single blog's spin — it's confirmed directly in the product, and it's now been covered by enough independent restaurant-tech outlets that the core facts are settled:

• Shutdown date: April 30, 2027. Every part of the platform — the ordering widget, the admin dashboard, payment processing — goes offline the same day.
• More than 123,000 restaurants across 50+ countries use GloriaFood today, so this is a large, real migration, not a niche one.
• New signups are already closed. If you're on GloriaFood now, you're on borrowed time; nobody new can join to replace you as a data point Oracle has to support.
• No data retention or archive is planned. Menu data, customer records, and order history become permanently inaccessible once the servers are turned off. Oracle has not said there will be an export tool built for you — treat your own export as the only copy that will exist.
• No successor product has been announced. Oracle acquired GloriaFood as part of a restaurant-tech push but never folded it into its enterprise roadmap; independent restaurants were never really Oracle's core customer, and the product is being deprioritized rather than replaced.

What to do right now

You don't need to panic-migrate today. You do need to stop treating your GloriaFood account as permanent storage. The realistic window most operators actually move in is six to nine months before a shutdown like this — waiting until the last few weeks is how you end up rushing a menu rebuild the same week you're trying to run service.

1. Export your menu now. Categories, item names, descriptions, prices, modifiers, and any combo/upsell rules. Do this even if you're not switching yet — it's the thing most likely to be tedious to rebuild from memory later.
2. Export your customer and order history if GloriaFood's dashboard gives you access to it. Repeat-customer emails and phone numbers are worth more to your business than almost anything else on the platform, and they will not carry over automatically to a new tool.
3. Screenshot your operational settings — delivery zones, delivery/pickup fees, hours, minimum order amounts, any tax configuration. These are easy to forget and annoying to reverse-engineer from old receipts.
4. Note your current commission/fee structure so you can compare it apples-to-apples against whatever you move to (see the table below — most of GloriaFood's era of "commission-free" isn't the default anymore elsewhere).
5. Pick a replacement before the last quarter of 2026, not the week of the shutdown. Every vendor guide on this topic agrees on that timing for the same reason: the closer you get to April 2027, the more everyone on GloriaFood is migrating at once, and support queues everywhere get slower right when you need them fastest.

What to actually look for in a replacement

Don't shop by "most features." Shop by the handful of things that determine whether the new tool fits how you actually run the kitchen:

• What it actually costs at your volume. A flat monthly fee is cheaper at high volume; a per-order percentage is cheaper when you're small or seasonal. Do the math at your real order count, not a hypothetical one.
• How painful the migration is. Can you re-import a menu CSV, or are you retyping every item by hand? Ask before you commit.
• Whether you keep your own Stripe/Square account and Google listing, or the platform owns that relationship — this matters if you ever want to leave again.
• Deposits, if you do catering or pre-orders. GloriaFood wasn't really built for deposit-then-balance billing; if that's part of your business, check for it explicitly rather than assuming every "online ordering" tool has it.
• Contract length. Month-to-month with no cancellation fee is worth paying a little more for, especially on your first pick — you may switch again once you know what you actually need.

How the real options compare

This is not a "GloriaFood alternatives, ranked" listicle where every option magically ties for first. These are genuinely different tools built for different shapes of business — read the "best for" column before the price.

To be direct about it: Onja is not a one-for-one GloriaFood clone, and we're not going to pretend it is. GloriaFood was a commission-free ordering widget and nothing else. Onja is a wider bundle — ordering, deposits, your Google listing, and an AI employee — priced so the Starter tier costs nothing until you make a sale, and the flat tiers undercut most of the table above once you're doing real volume. If all you need is a plain ordering widget, Square Online or DoorDash Storefront may genuinely be the simpler, cheaper move for you. We'd rather you pick the right tool than pick us.