WooCommerce Amazon Pay vs WooCommerce Stripe Gateway
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| Feature | WooCommerce Amazon Pay v2.6.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 2.5/5 Visit Details | WooCommerce Stripe Gateway v11.1.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.1/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 10,000+ | 700,000+ |
| Last updated | July 22, 2026 | October 16, 2026 |
| Editions | Amazon Pay for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Stripe Gateway |
| Pros | Shoppers pay with address and payment details saved at Amazon; Amazon widgets keep the buyer on the store during checkout; Block checkout blocks for changing the address and a logged-out banner | Cards plus many local and buy-now-pay-later methods; Apple Pay, Google Pay and Link express checkout; Subscriptions and pre-orders support |
| Cons | Needs an Amazon Pay merchant account and Login with Amazon client ID; Relies on Amazon widget scripts loaded on checkout pages; Includes legacy code paths for older Amazon API versions | Needs a Stripe account and API keys; Many payment methods to enable and check per country; Requires WooCommerce 11.0 or newer |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Login with Amazon and checkout session handling, Amazon address and wallet widgets, Amazon payment notifications handler, Blocks for changing the address and a logged-out banner, Recurring payments with WooCommerce Subscriptions (legacy), Buyer index table for Amazon buyers, WPML compatibility, Drip email marketing compatibility, Alexa delivery notifications | Unified payment element gateway, Card payments, Local and buy-now-pay-later methods, Express checkout with wallets and Link, Subscriptions support, Pre-orders support, Emails for failed refunds and authentication, Agentic commerce product feed, behind a feature flag |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Amazon Pay | Stripe, Affirm (via Stripe), Klarna (via Stripe) |
| Drip | — | |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | WooCommerce Subscriptions, WPML | — |
| Other | Alexa delivery tracker | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.5 | 6.9 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.0.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | static-na.payments-amazon.com, static-eu.payments-amazon.com, static-fe.payments-amazon.com, origin-na.ssl-images-amazon.com, payments.amazon.com, payments-eu.amazon.com, mws.amazonservices.com, mws-eu.amazonservices.com, mws.amazonservices.jp | js.stripe.com, api.stripe.com, api.woocommerce.com, files.stripe.com, dashboard.stripe.com |
| Blocks | 2 | — |
| Custom tables | 1 | — |