Tenvito vs GloriaFood: where to land before April 2027.

GloriaFood gave thousands of independent restaurants a free, commission-free way to take direct orders. Oracle is switching it off on 30 April 2027. This is the honest read on Tenvito as the next home — what carries forward, what doesn't, and what your migration actually looks like.

The choice in one table

Pricing, compared properly

GloriaFood's "free" headline is the reason 20,000+ restaurants picked it. The catch is that the free tier covers ordering and reservation widgets — almost everything a real food business adds on top has a price.

GloriaFood's actual stack for a working operator usually looks like: free ordering widget, plus online payments at $29/month/location, plus a sales-optimised website at $9, plus promotions at $19. Add the branded mobile app at $59 if you want it. That's a real-world $57–$116 per location every month — for a service with a 2027 expiry date.

Tenvito's model is transactional and singular. No monthly fee on the Free plan for ordering, payments, website, promotions, customer database or Cosmo. The merchant pays a percentage on each successful order plus Stripe or Fiserv card-processing fees. A butcher closed two weeks in January owes nothing for those weeks. A food truck that does 80% of its turnover in summer pays nothing in February.

For a single-location independent doing modest online volume, Tenvito is structurally cheaper than GloriaFood-with-payments-enabled. For a multi-location operator already running the free GloriaFood tier with no paid add-ons, the comparison is closer — but the 2027 deadline removes the option of "do nothing" either way.

Where GloriaFood was genuinely good

Honest comparisons require honest acknowledgment. GloriaFood served independent restaurants well for years, and these were real strengths:

None of this is wiped out by the shutdown — but none of it survives it either. The product was good. The decision to retire it was Oracle's, not the team's, and not the merchants'.

Where Tenvito picks up the same thread

No monthly fee, no contract — for real

The reason this matters here specifically: every operator who chose GloriaFood for its free tier was making a value judgment about monthly subscriptions. Tenvito honours that same judgment. No monthly fee for the Free plan core. No contract. No "free for 30 days then surprise pricing." If a customer pays you, Tenvito takes a transactional cut. If nobody pays you that month, you owe nothing.

Live in fifteen minutes, the same way

Five steps: name the business, add products, build the menu, connect Stripe or Fiserv, flip the switch. No salesperson, no implementation call, no onboarding queue. The migration from a free GloriaFood account to a free-to-start Tenvito account is straightforward enough to run in parallel for a fortnight before you flip the switch.

Customer data the merchant actually owns

One of the consistent GloriaFood review patterns on G2 and Capterra is that customer information wasn't easy to extract, didn't always populate a usable repeat-customer database, and reviewers wanted clearer ownership. Tenvito builds the merchant's customer list from the first order — who they are, what they bought, when they came back. Email your regulars. Build a loyalty offer. Retarget on social. Exportable any time, portable if you leave. You can walk away from Tenvito tomorrow with your customers in hand — the opposite of being locked into a service that might one day be retired.

Multilingual storefront — including Gaeilge

GloriaFood had broad dashboard language coverage; Tenvito's bet is on storefronts. English, Gaeilge and Deutsch — published, indexed, fully translated for the customer-facing ordering page. More languages will be added once the site reaches a stable finished version. For Gaeltacht businesses, bilingual Irish hospitality and German-market food entrants, this is the difference between speaking to customers in their language and asking them to translate.

Cosmo — the in-product AI guide

GloriaFood's support was praised in reviews — quick chat responses, dedicated success managers. Tenvito's bet is different: an AI assistant called Cosmo that lives inside the dashboard, answers in the merchant's language, and works 24/7. Setup help, marketing help, menu help, operational questions — it doesn't wait for a ticket queue.

Built in Dublin, under EU GDPR

GloriaFood is now an Oracle product — US corporate roadmap, US shutdown decision. Tenvito is Dublin-built and EU-native. Data lives under EU jurisdiction by default. For an Irish or European food business, that's not a footnote, it's table stakes that GloriaFood lost when Oracle made the call.

Who shouldn't switch to Tenvito

What does the migration actually look like?

Practically — and the GloriaFood community has been working through this for months now — the cleanest version of the move looks like this:

1. Set up Tenvito alongside GloriaFood. Fifteen minutes. Add products, build the menu, connect Stripe or Fiserv. Don't switch anything off yet.
2. Export everything from GloriaFood. Menu items, prices, photos, descriptions. Customer contacts as CSV. Order history if you can. Delivery zone configurations. Promotional setups. Do this even if you don't think you'll need it — once the service shuts down, the data is gone.
3. Import customers into Tenvito. CSV upload to contacts. Repeat-customer history starts fresh on the service but the relationship data carries.
4. Run them in parallel for a fortnight. Tenvito on your "Order Online" website button, GloriaFood still active as a backup. Watch one week of orders flow through Tenvito with nothing else changing. Confirm payments land, confirm the dashboard is sane.
5. Update your marketing surfaces. Google Business Profile, Instagram bio link, Facebook menu link, WhatsApp broadcast to your customer list. New ordering link is Tenvito.
6. Switch GloriaFood off. Or leave it running until April 2027 as a soft fallback — there's no monthly fee on the free tier, so there's no urgency on the disconnection beyond your own peace of mind.

For most independent operators this is a one-to-two-week migration with no operational disruption. The longer you wait into 2027, the more likely it is that everyone in the GloriaFood community is migrating at the same time and onboarding queues are longer.

What to look for in any GloriaFood replacement

If you're shopping around — and you should be — the structural questions worth asking every alternative are the same:

• Who owns the customer data? If the answer isn't "the merchant, fully, exportable any time," that's the next GloriaFood waiting to happen.
• What's the long-term ownership and roadmap risk? Is this a one-product company or part of a corporate portfolio that might decide to "rationalise" the lineup in three years? Oracle's decision is a reminder that acquisition risk is real.
• What's the actual total monthly cost, not the headline? Add up the payment processing add-on, the website fee, the promotions add-on, the mobile app, the POS. That's the real number.
• Is there a contract and what's the exit? Month-to-month is the safest position. 12-month auto-renewing is acceptable if the tool fits. 2–3 year contracts are a bigger commitment — fine for some operators, but worth pricing in.
• Does it actually do food? Time-slot pickup, kitchen prep windows, delivery zone management, tipping, pre-orders for Christmas and Easter, weight-based selling for butchers. Generic e-commerce store builders ignore most of this.

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