If you're choosing an online ordering service for an Irish or European food business, you have realistic options. These pages are written to help you choose well — including where Tenvito is the wrong answer.
GloriaFood shuts down on 30 April 2027. Tenvito carries the same no-monthly-fee, no-contract spirit forward. The honest migration guide.
Both Dublin-based. Flipdish is for multi-location chains with branded apps and POS integrations. Tenvito is for independents with no contract and full data ownership.
ChowNow is US-built with $149–$199/month flat pricing and deep US POS integrations. Tenvito is EU-built, no monthly fee, multilingual.
Square is a US payments giant with restaurants as a vertical. Tenvito is built for Irish food businesses, GDPR-native, with standard banking deposit timelines.
SumUp dominates Irish hospitality card terminals. Tenvito is the food-specific commerce layer that runs alongside SumUp — not necessarily a replacement.
Toast is for established full-service restaurants doing $250k+ annually with 2–3 year contracts and proprietary hardware. Tenvito is for everyone else.
Lightspeed sits in the mid-market between Tenvito's "live in 15 minutes" and Toast's enterprise stack. iPad-only, contracted, mandatory Lightspeed Payments.
Shopify is the global default for general e-commerce. Tenvito is built around the workflow food businesses actually run — perishables, time slots, weight-based pricing.
Delivery apps charge 25–35% commission and own your customer relationship. Tenvito charges 3.9% and gives you full data ownership. The maths speaks for itself.
| Tenvito | Flipdish | Square | Toast | Shopify | GloriaFood | ChowNow | Lightspeed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for food | Yes — natively | Yes | POS module on payments service | Yes — full-service focus | No — general e-commerce | Yes — retiring 30 Apr 2027 | Yes — US focus | Yes — mid-market POS |
| Monthly fee | Free plan; €29/mo Pro | €49–€249/site | $0/$49/$149 per location | $0–$165 base; $150–$2,000 realistic | $29–$299 + apps | Free core; $9–$59/mo add-ons | $149–$199/mo flat | $69–$399/mo (£79–£219 UK) |
| Transaction fee | 3.9% free; 2.9% Pro | Varies (Flipdish payments) | Standard card rates | Standard card rates | 2.9% Shopify Pay + site fees | Stripe/PayPal pass-through | Flat-fee model | Mandatory Lightspeed Payments |
| Contract | None | 12-month auto-renew | Month-to-month | 2–3 years | Month-to-month | None (free); 2-yr POS bundle | Annual | 1-year minimum |
| Customer data ownership | Full merchant | Joint controller | Square-controlled | Toast-controlled | Shopify-controlled | Lost at shutdown | ChowNow-controlled | Lightspeed-controlled |
| Card processor choice | Stripe or Fiserv | Flipdish payments | Square only | Toast only | Shopify Payments or fee | Stripe / PayPal | ChowNow only | Lightspeed Payments mandatory |
| Setup time | Under 15 min | Days–weeks | Same day | Weeks | Days–weeks | Closed to new signups | Days; account-managed | Weeks; setup fee £500–£1,500 |
| Languages | Multilingual — EN, GA, DE live; more being added | EN + others | EN primarily | EN primarily | EN + theme config | Wide language list | EN primarily | EN + EU languages |
| GDPR-native (EU) | Yes — Dublin-based | Yes — Dublin-based | US | US | Canada / global | US (Oracle) | US | Canada / EU offices |
| In-product AI help | Cosmo, 24/7, in the merchant's language | Account-managed | None native | Human phone support | Sidekick (general-purpose) | None — feature-frozen | Success-manager model | Chat support |
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For an independent Irish food business — bakery, butcher, food truck, pizzeria, café or event crew — Tenvito is built specifically for this profile. No monthly fee, no contract, live in 15 minutes, full customer data ownership, multilingual storefront. For multi-location operators with 3+ sites, Flipdish offers deeper POS integrations. For established full-service restaurants doing $250k+ annually, Toast offers deeper restaurant POS features at significantly higher cost.
Tenvito's free plan has no monthly subscription and no contract — the merchant pays a transaction percentage only when a customer pays them. For small or seasonal food businesses, this is structurally cheaper than Flipdish (€49–€249/month + 12-month contract), Square (Plus $49/mo, Premium $149/mo per location), Toast ($150–$400/mo realistic for a small café), Shopify ($29/mo base plus apps plus site fees on 3rd-party processors), ChowNow ($149–$199/mo flat), or Lightspeed Restaurant ($69–$399/mo plus mandatory Lightspeed Payments).
Tenvito gives the merchant full ownership of the customer relationship — every order, every customer record, every piece of data generated through your store is yours. Email your regulars. Build a loyalty offer. Retarget on social. Export and take it with you if you ever leave. No lock-in, no permission needed from anyone. Flipdish operates a joint controller model. Toast, Shopify and Lightspeed retain service-level data rights. Square controls customer data within its service. GloriaFood's database becomes inaccessible at shutdown on 30 April 2027.
Toast has 2–3 year contracts with auto-renewal and early-termination fees. Lightspeed Restaurant requires a one-year contract with mandatory Lightspeed Payments. Flipdish has 12-month minimum contracts with auto-renewal and 3-month cancellation notice. ChowNow contracts are annual. Square, Shopify and SumUp are month-to-month. Tenvito has no contract.
Tenvito, Flipdish, Toast, ChowNow, Lightspeed and GloriaFood are all built for food and hospitality. Square has a restaurant POS module on its general payments service. SumUp specialises in card terminals with POS as a secondary product. Shopify is general e-commerce — food is one vertical among many.
Oracle has confirmed shutdown on 30 April 2027 — accounts go dark on that date. Migrate sooner rather than later, ideally running a replacement in parallel for a few weeks before switching. Tenvito's no-monthly-fee, no-contract model is the closest match for what GloriaFood customers originally chose.
Yes. Tenvito handles online ordering, time-slot pickup and delivery, customer database and online payments via Stripe or Fiserv. SumUp handles in-person card payments at the counter. The two cover different parts of a food business — many merchants run both.
Delivery marketplaces typically charge between 25% and 35% commission per order, plus fees for promoted placement and delivery riders. On €10,000/month of orders, a 30% marketplace takes €3,000. Tenvito at 3.9% takes €390 — leaving roughly €31,320 more per year with the food business.
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