WooCommerce Role-Based Pricing vs Super Speedy Ajax Prices

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Comparing WooCommerce Role-Based Pricing with Super Speedy Ajax Prices? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.

Overview of WooCommerce Role-Based Pricing

WooCommerce Role-Based Pricing plugins allow store owners to set different product prices for different user roles — wholesale customers, retailers, members, and so on. They typically store role-specific prices as product meta and apply them at the WooCommerce price filter level during page rendering.

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How Super Speedy Ajax Prices differs from WooCommerce Role-Based Pricing

All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and Super Speedy Ajax Prices is no different. Here is what sets it apart:

Cache WooCommerce shop, category and product pages without serving the wrong personalised price. Super Speedy Ajax Prices replaces prices, stock and Add to Cart state for each visitor in one batched request after the cached page loads.

Standard WooCommerce role-based pricing plugins apply price rules during page rendering, which means prices are baked into the HTML at the time the page is generated. This creates conflicts with full-page caching — a cached page may show the wrong price to different user roles. Super Speedy Ajax Prices injects correct prices via AJAX after the cached page is served, resolving the caching conflict entirely while still delivering the right price to every customer type.

How to choose between WooCommerce Role-Based Pricing and Super Speedy Ajax Prices?

Standard role-based pricing plugins work well but often conflict with full-page caching, since cached pages may show the wrong price to different user roles. Super Speedy Ajax Prices solves the caching compatibility problem by injecting correct prices via AJAX after the cached page is served. SQL-first, tested against one-million-product catalogues, free trial available.

What's new in Super Speedy Ajax Prices?

1.15.1 (18th September 2026)

  • Preserved visitor-country prices on GTranslate pages when Cloudflare supplied the translation proxy's country, and added support for the legacy `X-GT-ClientIP` header

1.15 (15th September 2026)

  • Preserved WooCommerce customer-country pricing on GTranslate proxy requests by restoring the original viewer IP before geolocation, with optional privacy-safe diagnostics

1.14 (9th September 2026)

  • Preserved WooCommerce's variation price wrapper when refreshing embedded child prices, so themes retain their normal selected-price styling
  • Reused WooCommerce's private selected-variation response for over-threshold products, removing the redundant AJAX Prices request and second spinner
  • Refreshed every variation WooCommerce embeds in the first visitor request, including its numeric display prices, so AJAX Prices follows the store's effective variation threshold
  • Tested up to WordPress 7.1
  • Fixed selected variation prices remaining empty on products above WooCommerce's 30-variation threshold when every variation has the same price
  • Preloaded per-visitor prices and stock for products with up to 20 variations, so selecting an embedded variation needs no second AJAX Prices request
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