WooPayments vs YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search Premium
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| Feature | WooPayments v11.2.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.4/5 Visit Details | YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search Premium v2.18.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 800,000+ | — |
| Last updated | October 8, 2026 | — |
| Editions | WooPayments | YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search · YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search Premium ($) |
| Pros | Card payments managed from the WordPress dashboard; Built-in fraud screening and duplicate payment detection; Multi-currency pricing with a currency switcher block | Boost rules to promote chosen products in results; Overlay search layouts with popular searches; Related categories and related posts blocks; Premium product index and REST endpoint |
| Cons | Needs a WooPayments account before it can take payments; Only available in the countries WooPayments supports | Requires a paid YITH licence and WooCommerce; Contacts YITH licence servers for activation and updates |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | — |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Card payment gateway for WooCommerce, Checkout integration and payment fields, Fraud screening service, Duplicate payment detection, Multi-currency pricing, Multi-currency switcher block, WooPay express checkout scheduling and session handling | Boost rules for chosen products in results ($), Overlay search layout ($), Popular searches block ($), Premium search history ($), Premium product search index ($), Premium REST endpoint for search ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe | — |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce ($) |
| Plugins | — | WPML ($) |
| Other | FedEx | — |
| Requires WordPress | 6.0 | 6.6 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 6.8 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | No |
| External services | translate.wordpress.com, pay.woo.com, public-api.wordpress.com, jetpack.wordpress.com | support.yithemes.com, o37n31x524.execute-api.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com, yithemes.com, licence.yithemes.com, casper.yithemes.com |
| Blocks | 1 | 20 |
| Shortcodes | — | 1 |