GloriaFood Shutdown Date: 31 March or 30 April 2027? The Dates, Explained

GloriaFood closes on 30 April 2027. That is the end of life date on GloriaFood’s own homepage and in Oracle’s GloriaFood end of life FAQ, which applies it to every product, the free plan included. Oracle’s food and beverage page gives 31 March 2027 instead, and we found nothing from Oracle that explains the difference. Paid add-ons can stop before 30 April: each one ends when its final renewal runs out, between 1 and 30 April 2027.

The two dates, and where each one comes from

Both dates come from Oracle, which completed its acquisition of GloriaFood on 25 June 2021, according to GloriaFood’s About page. The service update on the GloriaFood homepage reads “GloriaFood will reach end of life on April 30, 2027”. It adds that existing customers are supported until then, that Oracle offers no direct replacement, and it names FoodAmigos as a third-party option.

Oracle’s GloriaFood end of life FAQ (Version 1.0, dated March 2026) uses the same date. It defines 30 April 2027 as the EOL Date and lists it against every product family: online ordering on the free and paid tiers, the point of sale with its hardware, and Oracle Payment. It is also the document that sets out the renewal rules and what happens to your data.

The odd one out is Oracle’s food and beverage product page. Its GloriaFood panel says the products are being discontinued, puts full end of service at 31 March 2027 and says new signups have stopped. The UK, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and Middle East editions carry the same wording, so a UK owner checking oracle.com/uk sees 31 March too. The panel’s link for more details goes to gloriafood.com, which says 30 April. We found no explanation from Oracle for the gap, and we will not guess at a reason.

Which date should you plan around?

For what your account actually does, the FAQ is the document to trust: it defines the end date, applies it product by product and explains renewals. Read on its own terms, 30 April 2027 is the last day of GloriaFood.

For planning, aim for 31 March 2027. If the product page turns out to be right, you are covered. If the FAQ is right, you get a spare month in which GloriaFood still takes orders while your new system is already live. There is a second reason to aim early: if you pay for anything on GloriaFood, that service will probably stop before 30 April, because of how the final renewal works.

How the final renewal works for paid add-ons

GloriaFood’s pricing page lists paid extras on top of the free plan, all in US dollars before tax: the Online / Credit Card Payment Service at $29 a month, Advanced Promo Marketing at $19 a month, and the Restaurant POS System at $49 a month per location on a two-year commitment (gloriafood.com/pricing, checked 28 October 2026). Oracle’s FAQ sets these rules for paid services during the wind-down:

• Paid services keep their normal billing cycle. Oracle gives 30-day terms for online ordering services as the example.
• Auto-renewal carries on during the wind-down, but Oracle accepts renewals and new orders only up to one month before the end date. By our reading, that is 30 March 2027.
• Each paid service ends when its final renewal expires, which Oracle puts between 1 and 30 April 2027. It does not renew again, even if that expiry falls before 30 April.
• No extension beyond 30 April 2027 is possible.
• Five products can no longer be added at all: Sales Optimized Website and Hosting, Branded Mobile App, Branded Partner Website and Hosting, the Point of Sale eStore Cloud Service with its Hardware Starter Package, and the Oracle Payment eStore Cloud Service. Other paid extras can still be added until one month before the end date.
• The free online ordering tier stays available up to the end date itself.
• If you cancel a paid online ordering service yourself in the admin panel, Oracle says you keep it until your next renewal date. Point of sale and Oracle Payment cancellations go through the support chat.
• Oracle Simphony and OPERA keep running under their own contracts, but their GloriaFood ordering integration stops after 30 April 2027.

The 30-day data window

Oracle’s FAQ says that once your GloriaFood services expire, end or are cancelled, you can retrieve your data for 30 days. It does not say which data, in what format or by what route, beyond pointing data requests to the support chat in your restaurant account. By our arithmetic, an add-on that ends on 3 April would leave you until about 3 May 2027, and the free plan ending on 30 April would leave you until about 30 May 2027.

Treat the window as a backstop, not a plan. GloriaFood’s reporting module has client lists that export your customers’ contact and order details, and since November 2023 the Reports tab exports table data, such as promotion stats, as CSV or XLS (gloriafood.com/press/new-product-release-reporting-module and gloriafood.com/gloriafood-updates-november-2023). For the menu, GloriaFood’s integration documents describe a Fetch Menu API that uses a key from the third-party integrations section of the admin panel (github.com/GlobalFood/integration_docs). Download what you can while your account is fully working. The checklist for leaving GloriaFood covers the menu, photos and customer list step by step.

Month by month: free plan or monthly renewals

The calendar below starts now and assumes you aim to be live elsewhere by 31 March 2027. The right-hand column is for restaurants paying for any add-on on a monthly cycle, such as the card payment service or promo marketing. Check the renewal date of each paid service in your GloriaFood account, because that date, not 30 April, decides when it stops.

The dates are the same in every country

Oracle’s FAQ gives one end date for every GloriaFood product, with no variation by country, and GloriaFood’s About page says it serves restaurants in more than 150 countries. So the calendar applies in Leeds, Lyon or Los Angeles alike; what varies is the replacement’s currency, tax, card payments and delivery options.

Where Aexir fits

Aexir is an online ordering system for independent restaurants and takeaways: their own branded iOS and Android ordering app, ordering website and browser till (POS on the Go), for a flat monthly fee at published prices. Aexir Digital Ltd is based in Manchester and sets up restaurants in the UK, France and worldwide.

The published plans are Web £30 (ordering website and POS on the Go, no app), Starter £30 (branded iOS and Android app), Plus £40 (app and website) and Pro £50 (app, website and POS on the Go) a month before tax, ex VAT in the UK. France has its own list at 40 €, 40 €, 50 € and 60 € a month HT. For US visitors, the pricing page shows approximate conversions of about $40 (Web and Starter), $54 (Plus) and $68 (Pro). At setup we import your GloriaFood menu from whatever you have: an export, a PDF or photos.

Today the till and ordering screens show prices in pounds or euros only, and address lookup covers the UK and France only. Outside the UK and France, check currency, tax, card payments and delivery for your country with us on the call before you sign.

Still comparing? The GloriaFood alternative page sets GloriaFood against Aexir feature by feature, and the alternatives hub has a dated comparison page for each provider we cover.

Sources

• GloriaFood homepage service update: https://www.gloriafood.com/ (checked 28 October 2026)
• Oracle GloriaFood EOL Frequently Asked Questions, Version 1.0, March 2026: https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/dms/prod/d3/FAQs-GL.pdf (checked 28 October 2026)
• Oracle food and beverage page: https://www.oracle.com/food-beverage/ (checked 28 October 2026) and its regional editions, for example https://www.oracle.com/uk/food-beverage/ (checked 29 October 2026)
• GloriaFood About page: https://www.gloriafood.com/about and pricing page: https://www.gloriafood.com/pricing (checked 28 October 2026)
• GloriaFood reporting and export: https://www.gloriafood.com/press/new-product-release-reporting-module and https://www.gloriafood.com/gloriafood-updates-november-2023; Fetch Menu API: https://github.com/GlobalFood/integration_docs/blob/master/fetch_menu/README.md (checked 28 October 2026)
• User report of the in-app banner, 21 April 2026: https://forum.sambapos.com/t/gloriafood-end-of-life/31764 (checked 28 October 2026)