YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts V/s ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts

Offering discounts and offers to your customers is important to make them happy and also to attract new customers to your store. When it comes to a WooCommerce store, you need to find the best dynamic pricing and discounts plugin for your store to work it out. As there are many WooCommerce dynamic pricing plugins available for you to apply the offers in your store, you have to choose the right one, which will satisfy all your requirements.

Going through each and every feature of a plugin before choosing one is important and necessary. And, what are the best dynamic pricing plugins available in the market?

Here, I have taken 2 best dynamic pricing plugins for your WooCommerce store in the market:

1. ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin
2. YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin

For your convenience to understand the features better, let us go through the comparison of these 2 plugins based on a number of factors.

1. Types of discount rules
2. User-specific offers
3. Offers based on conditions
4. Setting up free gifts
5. Calculation and execution of offers
6. Price and offer table
7. Display of offers on store
8. Cost
9. Compatibility

Before getting into the comparison, let us go through the two plugins for an introduction to both plugins.

Introduction

Both plugins have already proven their potential that we can see when we check the customer satisfaction of these plugins. ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin is a premium and handy plugin that offers dynamic pricing and discounts to the customers with a handful of advanced features. YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin is also a premium dynamic pricing and discount plugin that comes up with a number of advanced features for helping you to set up the offers and discounts in your store.

For more details of these plugins, let us compare their features one by one.

Types of discount rules

ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin has 9 discount rules by default such as Product Rules, Category Rules, Combinational Rules, Category Combinational Rules, Cart Rules, Buy and Get Free Offer (BOGO) Rules, Buy One and Get Offer (BOGO) Category Rules, Tag Rules, and BOGO Tag Rules. Each individual rule has a lot of customization options to apply the discount for specific users based on the conditions as you wish. You can customize the rules according to your requirements.

When it comes to YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin, you can apply the discounts and offers based on the cart value, quantity, or on specific products. This plugin lets you create custom rules based on your requirements.

In both plugins, you can apply a percentage discount, flat discount, and fixed price discount. But if you are not tech-savvy and getting confused about creating rules and configuring the offers, you can go for ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin, as it already has default discount rules. You can simply enter the data and it is flexible to customize each rule. For more details about each rule and the advanced options available for each rule, you can go through an article: Everything You Need to Know About WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing.

User-specific offers

In ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin, you can set up the offer to the selected user roles of your WooCommerce store. And you can also apply the rules to individual users by entering their email IDs if those users do not come under the entered user roles, or for giving a special offer to your favorite customers. You can also filter the users to provide the offers based on the minimum amount they have spent on previous purchases, and the minimum number of purchases they have made from your WooCommerce store previously.

In YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin, you can apply the discounts to specific user roles and users by entering their mail IDs. You can also make a list of the users and include or exclude them from the offers. In this also, you can apply the discounts based on the previous orders and the amount spent by the customers.

Offers based on conditions

You can set up the offers and discounts to be applied to the products based on the quantity, weight, and price of the products. There are also options to enter the minimum and maximum range of these values, to be checked to apply the discount to the customers using the ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin.

In YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin, you can apply discounts based on the quantity of the products the customer is going to purchase. When it comes to the ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin, you can choose the option based on which you need to apply the discount such as weight, price, units beside the quantity.

Setting up free gifts

In the YITH plugin, you can set up products as free gifts when they purchase specific products. When it comes to  ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin, there is a BOGO discount rule by default. BOGO stands for Buy One and Get Offer. You can set specific products for free when a customer purchases specific products, products under specific categories, or having special tags. And, ELEX dynamic pricing plugin has an advanced feature for the BOGO rule to add the free product automatically to the cart when a customer adds specific products into their cart.

Calculation and execution of offers

If you go for the ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin, you have an option to choose the execution order of the offers active on your WooCommerce store. You can choose the best discount rule for choosing the best eligible discount for the product, the first match rule to apply the first discount rule from the eligible offers’ list, or the all matched rules to apply all available rules for a product. And you can also set the execution order by arranging the offers in the required order.

In the YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin, you can display the best price of the product on its product page. And there is an option to set the priority of the offers using numbers. You can choose the discount mode and add its priority accordingly.

Price and offer table

In ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin, you have options to display pricing tables as well as offer tables on individual product pages. This will help the customers to increase the quantity of purchase to add some other products into the cart to make the combos to be eligible for the offers. When it comes to YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin, you can display a table that displays the number of products to be purchased to get a price drop.

If you choose the ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin, you can display the same, that is, the minimum and maximum quantity of products need to be purchased to be eligible for a discount. In addition to that, you can display an offer table which lists all the offers regarding the specific product on its product page.

Display of offers on store

Both plugins provide options to display the message regarding the offers you provide on your WooCommerce store. This will help the customers to know about the offers available on your WooCommerce store. Using ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin, you can display this message using a shortcode. In YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin, you can add these messages as notes to inform the offer to the customers.

Cost

As you know, both plugins are premium plugins. ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin costs $79 as a one-time purchase charge. And YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin has plans which start at $129.99. When you check the features and customization options, you can find that almost all features are available on ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin, and still, it charges a reasonable cost. If you are searching for a plugin that is cost-effective, ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin will be the right choice.

Compatibility

ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin is highly compatible with various plugins from ELEX, as well as other potential plugins such as WPML, WooCommerce Currency Switcher Plugin, and WooCommerce Bookings, etc. YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin is also compatible with WPML and other various plugins from YITH.

For more clarity, let us add these important features into a table.

To sum up,

Both WooCommerce dynamic pricing plugins are efficient and robust. You can go through each plugin’s product page and documentation for more details. When you check all features, ELEX WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing & Discounts plugin is more user friendly, as even a person who does not have advanced technical knowledge can easily set up the discounts and offers on their store. And it offers almost all the possible discount types default.

Further Reading:

• How to Change Product Price Programmatically on WooCommerce?