Meta for WooCommerce vs WooPayments
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| Feature | Meta for WooCommerce v3.7.8 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 2.1/5 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 | 400,000+ | 800,000+ |
| Last updated | October 8, 2026 | October 8, 2026 |
| Editions | Meta for WooCommerce | WooPayments |
| Pros | Official Meta plugin for product catalog sync; Meta Pixel and Conversions API events; WhatsApp order updates and product feed generation | 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 a Meta business account and connection; Sends plugin configuration to Meta on a schedule; Large codebase with many moving parts | 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 | Product catalog sync to Meta, Meta Pixel event tracking, Conversions API calls to the Graph API, WhatsApp connection for order updates, Product set sync into a catalog, Product feed file generation, Catalog support for Polylang and WPML languages | 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 | — | Stripe |
| Analytics | Meta Pixel | — |
| Social | Facebook and Instagram (Meta), WhatsApp (Meta) | — |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Plugins | Polylang, WPML | — |
| Other | — | FedEx |
| Requires WordPress | 5.6 | 6.0 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | Yes | Only if you agree |
| External services | cdn.jsdelivr.net, unpkg.com, graph.facebook.com, www.commercepartnerhub.com, api.facebook.com, api.woocommerce.com, api.wordpress.org | translate.wordpress.com, pay.woo.com, public-api.wordpress.com, jetpack.wordpress.com |
| Blocks | — | 1 |