GloriaFood is closing. Your online ordering doesn't have to.
A commission-free replacement you can be running before the lights go out: QR menu, online ordering, WhatsApp orders, and every customer still yours.
What has actually been announced
GloriaFood's own site now carries a plain notice: the platform "has been discontinued and is no longer accepting new signups", and existing customers will be supported through the transition. Oracle bought GloriaFood in June 2021 and is retiring the product rather than passing it on.
The end-of-service date is where you have to be careful. Write-ups around the industry put it in 2027, but they disagree on the exact day and Oracle's public GloriaFood pages do not publish one. Treat the notice inside your own account as the only date that counts, and plan a few months ahead of it.
Nothing breaks tomorrow. But a shutdown date is a deadline for reprinting QR codes, updating every ordering link you have ever published, and exporting your data — and that work is much cheaper done early than done in the last fortnight.
What stops working when the service ends
Online ordering is not one thing. It is a menu, a checkout, a set of links, and a pile of printed codes pointing at them. When the platform behind those links goes away, all four go with it.
- ✓Your ordering page and checkout — the link in your Instagram bio, your website button, your Google Business Profile
- ✓Every printed QR code on tables, windows, receipts, and flyers
- ✓Your menu as it exists in that dashboard — items, options, prices, and photos
- ✓Order history and the customer list built from it, unless you export first
A fair comparison, not a hit piece
GloriaFood was a genuinely good deal. Free ordering with no commission is the thing we admire about it, and it is the thing we built our own pricing around — so we are not going to pretend it was a bad product. It is simply being switched off, and the free base plan with paid add-ons was always going to be somebody else's business decision to end.
The honest difference is the model. GloriaFood gave away the base and charged for the extras — POS, a sales-optimized website, a branded app, online payments and tipping, automated email marketing. OrderScribe charges one flat, public subscription and puts the product in the plan, so the price you see is the price you pay in a busy month.
| GloriaFood | OrderScribe | |
|---|---|---|
| Taking new restaurants | No — discontinued, signups closed | Yes — self-serve signup |
| Commission on orders | 0% | 0% |
| Pricing model | Free base plan, paid optional add-ons | Flat plan from $15/mo — no add-on tolls |
| Paid extras | POS, branded app, website, payments, email marketing | Included in the plan you pick |
| Roadmap | Product being retired | Actively developed |
What you get on the OrderScribe side
The brief is the same one GloriaFood answered: ordering as easy as the delivery apps, running on your own menu, with no cut taken out of the ticket.
- ✓QR digital menu in Arabic and English, with full right-to-left layout
- ✓Cart, item options, promo codes, delivery zones, pickup, and scheduled orders
- ✓Orders on WhatsApp the second they land, plus a live dashboard for the counter
- ✓Live order tracking for the guest, in their own language
- ✓0% commission on every order, on every plan
- ✓Your customers stay yours — names, numbers, and order history
What you'll need to move
Do these four things while your GloriaFood account is still live. None of them takes long; all of them get harder the day the service ends.
- Export your menuItems, categories, options, prices, and photos. A screenshot pass through the dashboard is a fine backup if there is no clean export — you want the structure, and we will rebuild the rest.
- Export your orders and customersOrder history is the raw material for knowing who your regulars are. Pull it now; it is the one thing nobody can recreate for you afterwards.
- List every place your ordering link appearsInstagram and TikTok bios, your website's order button, Google Business Profile, WhatsApp Business profile, printed flyers, delivery-driver cards. This list is the actual migration checklist.
- Count your printed QR codesTable tents, window stickers, receipt footers, menu inserts. Fold the reprint into your next normal print run and the switch costs you almost nothing.
How the switch works with us
You do not need a gap in service. Your GloriaFood account can keep taking orders right up to the moment you flip your links over.
- Send us the exportWe rebuild the menu for you — categories, items, modifiers, prices, photos, and every branch, in Arabic and English.
- Review it on a real phoneYou get your live menu link during the free trial and can order from it yourself before a single customer sees it.
- Swap the links, then the printChange the order button, the bio links, and the Google profile first — printed QR codes can follow on your own schedule.
What it costs
Starter is $15 a month, or $144 a year, for the QR menu and online ordering on one branch. Growth is $39 a month, or $375 a year, and adds the AI assistant and unlimited branches.
Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial and we do not ask for a card to begin — so you can have your menu rebuilt and tested well before you decide anything. Commission is 0% on all of them, in a busy month as in a quiet one.
GloriaFood shutdown: common questions
Is GloriaFood really shutting down?
Yes. GloriaFood's own website now states that the platform "has been discontinued and is no longer accepting new signups", and that existing customers will be supported through the transition. GloriaFood was acquired by Oracle in June 2021 and the product is being retired rather than sold on.
When exactly does GloriaFood stop working?
The end-of-service date being reported around the industry falls in 2027, but published accounts disagree on the exact day and Oracle's public GloriaFood pages do not list one. The only date you should plan against is the one in the notice inside your own GloriaFood account or in the email sent to you — check it, write it down, and give yourself a few months of margin.
What is the best commission-free GloriaFood alternative?
Look for the two things that made GloriaFood work: no commission on orders, and ordering that runs on your own site and QR codes rather than on a marketplace. OrderScribe does both — a flat subscription from $15 a month, 0% commission on every order, a QR digital menu in Arabic and English, and orders that land on your WhatsApp and dashboard. What you should compare across any shortlist is the total cost once the add-ons you actually need are switched on.
Will I lose my menu and my customer list?
Not if you export before the service ends. While your GloriaFood account is still live, download your menu and your order and customer history — once a platform is switched off, the data behind it usually goes with it. Send us the export and we will rebuild the menu for you: categories, items, options, prices, photos, and multiple branches, in Arabic and English.
Do I have to reprint my QR codes?
Yes, at some point — a QR code is just a printed link, and your new menu lives at a new address. The cheap way to do it is to reprint table tents, stickers, and receipt footers on your normal print cycle rather than in an emergency, which is the main reason to start the move early instead of in the final weeks.
How much does OrderScribe cost after GloriaFood?
Starter is $15 a month (or $144 a year) for the QR menu and online ordering on one branch. Growth is $39 a month (or $375 a year) and adds the AI assistant and unlimited branches. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with no card, and none of them takes a commission on your orders.
How long does the move take?
Usually days, not weeks. Most of the work is rebuilding the menu, which we do for you. You approve it, we switch your ordering links over, and you reprint QR codes when it suits you — your GloriaFood account can stay live the whole time, so there is no window where you cannot take orders.
Move before the deadline, not during it
Start the 14-day free trial, send us your menu export, and have your new ordering page live while GloriaFood is still running.