If you are replacing GloriaFood, the market is suddenly full of options — OlaClick, Menuro, Restolabs, Fleksa, ChowNow, Flipdish, Square and plenty more. Nearly all of them say the same two things: commission-free and own your data. That is table stakes now, not a differentiator.
So this page is about the questions underneath the marketing.
First, know what you are matching
Worth being precise, because it sets a benchmark most replacements do not meet. GloriaFood’s own pricing page advertised its free plan as:
Unlimited orders, Unlimited locations, No commission per order, No monthly fee, No contracts, No credit card required, No setup fee, No hidden cost
Free, unlimited, no cut of revenue. If you were on that plan and expect a like-for-like swap at zero, you will be disappointed by most of the market — and it is better to know that now than four demos deep.
The part that is widely matchable is no commission. Hold on to that one.
The seven questions that actually separate them
1. Is there a commission or per-order fee — on every tier? Ask for the number on the free tier and the paid tier, in writing. This is the single largest cost difference between platforms and it is frequently not on the pricing page. A 3% fee on $20,000 of monthly online sales is $600 a month, which dwarfs every subscription in this market.
2. Whose payment account does the money land in? Yours, or theirs-then-remitted-to-you? This looks like a technicality until there is a chargeback, a payout delay, or a platform that decides to hold funds. Your own merchant account is the difference between a dispute you handle and a dispute you wait on.
3. Can you export your data whenever you want — not just when you leave? GloriaFood taught everyone this. Insist on an export of menu, customers and orders that you can trigger yourself, without asking support. If the answer involves a support ticket, that is a soft form of lock-in.
4. Who does the migration — you or them? A wizard that makes you retype your menu is not migration. Ask specifically: do you import from a GloriaFood Fetch Menu key, and do you handle option groups nested under sizes? That last detail is where menus break — a 9-inch pizza and a 14-inch one legitimately carry different topping sets, and tools that flatten sizes into items lose it.
5. Do you get your own domain? Or a subdomain of theirs. This is usually the real line between free and paid tiers, and it decides whether your regulars are ordering from your brand or from someone else’s.
6. What is the contract length? GloriaFood’s ordering plan had none. A two-year term right after a shutdown is a poor trade, whatever the discount.
7. Does it handle the payment rails your customers actually use? Most platforms in this market are built for US and European cards. If you are in India, the Gulf, or Southeast Asia, ask about local gateways by name before anything else — a platform that cannot charge your customers is not a candidate regardless of its features.
What none of them can do for you
No platform can import your delivery zones, opening hours, prep times, fees, taxes or payment configuration, because GloriaFood does not export them. Any vendor implying a one-click total migration is overselling it. The same goes for dish photos, which are not in GloriaFood’s documented menu payload.
Judge replacements on how honestly they describe that rebuild, not on whether they claim to avoid it.
Where Ontabee fits, honestly
We are not going to pretend we are the only good option. Several of these platforms are genuinely commission-free with real exports, and for some restaurants they will be the better fit.
Where we are strong. Migration is done for you rather than handed to you — you give us a Fetch Menu key and we bring the menu across, including size-level option groups and the min/max rules on them, with a preview of what we found before anything is written. There is a free tier with zero commission. Payments resolve to your own gateway account, including local rails most US-built platforms do not carry — Razorpay and PayU, Telr and Tap, Moyasar, PayMongo, Midtrans, Xendit, Mercado Pago, alongside Stripe. Everything exports whenever you ask.
Where we are not. Our free tier puts a small Ontabee mark on your ordering pages; GloriaFood’s did not. We are a smaller company than Square or Oracle, and if institutional size is your main criterion after this experience, that is a legitimate reason to choose someone else. Dish photos we cannot import any better than anyone else can, because the API does not return them. And if you need a full POS terminal today, we do not sell one.
Then compare on published numbers
For platform-by-platform detail — each using the vendor’s own published pricing, dated, with a section on what that competitor does better than us — see the comparison pages: ChowNow, Owner.com, Square, Flipdish, Popmenu, BentoBox and LimeTray.
To put your own numbers to it rather than ours, use the commission calculator. It deducts card processing before showing a figure, and it will tell you when switching does not pay.
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