GloriaFood is shutting down: what to do before April 30, 2027

By the Nomback team, who build ordering apps for independent restaurants. Updated October 20, 2026. Sources

GloriaFood, the free restaurant online ordering system owned by Oracle, will "reach end of life on April 30, 2027", according to the notice on its own homepage. Oracle says it "does not offer a direct replacement" and points customers to a third party, FoodAmigos, for migration. Existing accounts are supported until that date. If your website's "order online" button, Facebook ordering link, table reservations or QR dine-in menu run on GloriaFood, they stop working then, so the job between now and spring 2027 is to pick a replacement, move the menu and customer list, and swap the links on your site and Google Business Profile.

What exactly did Oracle announce?

The banner on gloriafood.com reads: "GloriaFood will reach end of life on April 30, 2027. We remain committed to supporting existing customers through this date." It adds that "Oracle does not offer a direct replacement for GloriaFood products and services" and that FoodAmigos "offers onboarding resources and technical capabilities designed to assist GloriaFood customers" (GloriaFood). Oracle bought GloriaFood in 2021 and folded it into its hospitality business; a free product for independents never fit a company that sells to hotel chains, and this is the end of it. GloriaFood's paid modules (online card payments at $29 a month, promo marketing at $19, the $49 POS with a two-year commitment) end with it (GloriaFood pricing).

What stops working on April 30, 2027?

Everything that runs through GloriaFood's servers: the ordering widget on your website, the "See MENU and Order" Facebook button, the mobile ordering page, the order-taking app on your tablet or phone, table reservations, the QR code dine-in menu, promo codes, and the branded app if you paid for one. The listing in GloriaFood's shared FoodBooking app goes too. Your own website stays up if it is hosted elsewhere; if you used GloriaFood's sales-optimized website, that goes as well.

What should you export before it closes?

Your menu. Items, prices, categories and modifiers. Most replacements will import a spreadsheet, and some will pull it from your Clover or Square if the menu lives there.
Your customer list. Names, emails and phone numbers of people who have ordered. This is the asset: whoever you move to, you want to tell those customers where to order now.
Order history. At least a year, so you know your real order count and average ticket when you compare prices.
Every place the old link lives. Website buttons, Google Business Profile "order online" link, Facebook, Instagram bio, printed menus and bag inserts with a QR code.

Do the export while the account is healthy, not in April 2027.

What are the alternatives to GloriaFood?

GloriaFood's appeal was $0 for website ordering. Nothing else is quite free, but several are close, and the replacement is a chance to get something GloriaFood never had: an app with your name on your customers' phones. Prices from each company's page, October 2026:

System	Monthly	Per order	Own app?
Square Free	$0	3.3% + 30¢ processing	No, ordering page
Nomback	$99 + $399 setup	2.9% + 30¢ processing	Yes, iPhone and Android, stamp card inside
UpMenu	$49 to $169, app $49 more	Processing	With the app module
Slice (pizza)	$39 or $99	$3 or $2 + processing	Listing in Slice's app
Popmenu	$159 to $499 + ordering add-on	$1 + processing	No
ChowNow	$229 to $249	2.95% + 29¢	Yes

Details on each are on the ordering systems comparison, the Square fees page and the Popmenu pricing page. FoodAmigos, the migration partner Oracle names, had no public price list when this was written.

What is the cheapest replacement?

Square Free, if you take payments on Square or are willing to. It is $0 a month with online processing of 3.3% + 30 cents, and the ordering page comes with the account. If you want to keep taking card payments online and were paying GloriaFood $29 a month for that, Square's higher rate costs about the same at 150 orders a month and more above it (the math).

What does switching to Nomback look like?

Send the menu export and logo, or connect your Clover, and the app is usually live in about two weeks with your restaurant's name in the App Store and Google Play (pricing). Orders print in the kitchen or land on your Clover already paid. The stamp card and push deals are built in, so the customer list you exported has somewhere to go: a push to "order in our new app" with a first-order reward moves most of them over in a few weeks. Delivery is through DoorDash Drive at a flat fee when you want it. $99 a month, $399 to set up, month to month, no commission.

Timeline for a GloriaFood restaurant

When	Do
Now	Export menu, customer list and a year of orders. Note every link and QR code that points to GloriaFood.
Before the end of 2026	Pick the replacement using your real order count. Get it live while GloriaFood still works, so both run for a month.
Early 2027	Swap the website button, Google Business Profile ordering link and social links. Reprint menus and bag inserts with the new QR code. Email and text the customer list.
April 30, 2027	GloriaFood ends. Nothing left pointing at it.

Want your own app without the per-order math? Nomback is $99 a month and $399 to set up, no commission and no per-order fee, with a stamp card built in. Type your restaurant's name into the 10 second demo to see it.

Sources

Prices and fees were checked on October 20, 2026. They change, so check the source before you decide.