61
Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe
Easy to install but a nightmare to remove.
DecliningPoor rating
61/100
Easy setup is offset by serious bugs that can break your site or wipe your settings.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.8★
23 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-48%
Declining fast
129 → 68 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.95★
- MINORdownloads down 48% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -48% in the last year
129/day a year ago→68/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAccept Donations with PayPal & Stripe is praised for its ease of setup and responsive support, but many users report critical problems with deactivation, updates breaking merchant IDs, and missing features.
What people like
- +Easy and quick to set up, with an intuitive installation process×4
- +Responsive developer support and timely updates×2
- +Works as described, handling PayPal donations reliably×2
- +Provides a complete set of PayPal donation features
Common complaints
- −Cannot deactivate or remove the plugin, often causing critical errors×3
- −Recent update cleared live merchant ID, breaking donations (since 1.4.0)
- −No option to add a custom class to the button wrapper, limiting styling
- −Shortcode missing and widget does not display
- −Recurring donation feature locked behind paid version, with confusing pricing for multiple sites
- −Support sometimes unresponsive, with long wait times for replies
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.95★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.80★
- 4%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 23 total
Latest reviews · 23 analyzed
- 2024-05-27★★★★★Recent update removed live account merchant ID…acjohnson1985
- 2024-02-22★★★★★You can't deactivate!darleenac
- 2023-07-21★★★★★Brokenmilandimitrijevic1-shot
- 2023-06-01★★★★★Works as Intended but Can't Deactivategregorytoscano
- 2023-01-24★★★★★Can't Add Class to Button Wrapperagon024
- 2021-11-11★★★★★Works greatwunschbrunne
- 2019-05-29★★★★★Easy to usedareko
- 2018-11-15★★★★★Doesn't workAME Network
- 2018-06-12★★★★★Works great!annealex
- 2018-05-16★★★★★Works well with great support!MaryMak
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
70
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
74
Prior 7-day baseline
166
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,681
Mean release-day peak (30d)
187
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-5.4%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.27
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
61%
5★ share in analyzed sample
4%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
—
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.83 → 3.95★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered