WooCommerce Role-Based Pricing vs Super Speedy Ajax Prices

March 30, 2026

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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:

Super Speedy Ajax Prices lets you cache your WooCommerce product and shop pages fully — while still showing accurate, personalised prices to every visitor. It replaces price output with lightweight placeholders on the cached page, then batch-fetches correct real-time prices via a single AJAX request after load. Full page caching. Accurate prices. No compromise.

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.

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What's new in Super Speedy Ajax Prices?

1.3 (3rd June 2026)

Added WooCommerce Product Bundles and Composite Products support. When either of those plugins is active, the AJAX stock-refresh response now carries per-child / per-component availability for those product types — bundles include a `bundled_items` map (per child: in-stock, purchasable, optional, max stock) plus the bundle's overall stock roll-up, and composites include a `components` map (per component: title, optional flag, default option, and per-option in-stock/purchasable state). This lets fully-cached archive and product pages show accurate per-part availability. Each adapter self-registers only when its parent plugin is present (and is a harmless no-op otherwise), and the data is included only when the "Refresh stock via AJAX" option is enabled. Verified by new end-to-end tests for both product types.
Security hardening: the AJAX price/stock endpoint now only ever returns data for Published products. Draft, pending, private, and scheduled products are no longer turned into AJAX placeholders and are skipped by the handler, so unpublished prices and stock levels can no longer be enumerated by unauthenticated visitors. Admins previewing an unpublished product still see the correct price — it simply isn't refreshed via AJAX until the product is published.
Capped the number of products processed per AJAX request (default 200) to prevent a single request from forcing thousands of product loads. The cap is adjustable via the new `ssap_max_products_per_request` filter — see the Developer Reference KB article.
Hardened request handling so a malformed (non-array) product list can no longer trigger a PHP error; incoming IDs are now de-duplicated and zero-filtered before processing.
Added .kb troubleshooting and developer-reference guides.

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