Afterpay Gateway for WooCommerce vs WooPayments
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| Feature | Afterpay Gateway for WooCommerce v3.9.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.6/5 Visit Details | WooPayments v11.2.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.4/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 10,000+ | 800,000+ |
| Last updated | October 14, 2026 | October 8, 2026 |
| Editions | Afterpay Gateway for WooCommerce | WooPayments |
| Pros | Official plugin from Afterpay with automatic refunds; Instalment messaging on product, category and cart pages, plus blocks and shortcodes; Express checkout button on the cart page; Supports the WooCommerce block checkout; Sandbox mode with separate test credentials | Card payments managed from the WordPress dashboard; Built-in fraud screening and duplicate payment detection; Multi-currency pricing with a currency switcher block |
| Cons | Needs an Afterpay merchant account and approval; Only available for the configured settlement currency unless multicurrency is enabled; Runs a cron job every 15 minutes to refresh payment limits | Needs a WooPayments account before it can take payments; Only available in the countries WooPayments supports |
| Mentioned in our posts | — | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Afterpay payment method at checkout, Refunds sent to Afterpay from the order screen, Express checkout button on the cart page, Instalment messaging on product, category and cart pages, Product and cart messaging blocks, Logo and paragraph shortcodes, WooCommerce block checkout support, Exclude product categories from Afterpay, Cross-border trade and multicurrency option, Sends shipping courier data to Afterpay on order status change | Card payment gateway for WooCommerce, Checkout integration and payment fields, Fraud screening service, Duplicate payment detection, Multi-currency pricing, Multi-currency switcher block, WooPay express checkout scheduling and session handling |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Afterpay, Square (marketplace script) | Stripe |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Other | — | FedEx |
| Requires WordPress | 6.0.3 | 6.0 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.0.4 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | Only if you agree |
| External services | global-api.afterpay.com, global-api-sandbox.afterpay.com, static.afterpay.com, js.squarecdn.com, js-sandbox.squarecdn.com | translate.wordpress.com, pay.woo.com, public-api.wordpress.com, jetpack.wordpress.com |
| Blocks | 2 | 1 |
| Shortcodes | 2 | — |