WooCommerce Stripe Gateway vs WooPayments
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| Feature | WooCommerce Stripe Gateway v11.1.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.1/5 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 | 700,000+ | 800,000+ |
| Last updated | October 16, 2026 | October 8, 2026 |
| Editions | WooCommerce Stripe Gateway | WooPayments |
| Pros | Cards plus many local and buy-now-pay-later methods; Apple Pay, Google Pay and Link express checkout; Subscriptions and pre-orders support | 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 Stripe account and API keys; Many payment methods to enable and check per country; Requires WooCommerce 11.0 or newer | 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 | 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 | 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, Affirm (via Stripe), Klarna (via Stripe) | Stripe |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Other | — | FedEx |
| Requires WordPress | 6.9 | 6.0 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | Only if you agree |
| External services | js.stripe.com, api.stripe.com, api.woocommerce.com, files.stripe.com, dashboard.stripe.com | translate.wordpress.com, pay.woo.com, public-api.wordpress.com, jetpack.wordpress.com |
| Blocks | — | 1 |