76
Payment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce
A solid PayPal bridge with support that actually shows up.
HealthyDeclining
76/100
The responsive support team earns praise even when technical bugs occur.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.4★
72 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-40%
Declining fast
154 → 92 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 40% 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 · -40% in the last year
154/day a year ago→92/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPayment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce is praised for its reliable functionality and exceptionally responsive support, though early versions lacked some features and had occasional integration hiccups.
What people like
- +Responsive and helpful support team that resolves issues quickly×12
- +Plugin works smoothly and integrates well with WooCommerce stores×4
- +Provides better functionality compared to other PayPal/Stripe plugins×2
- +User-friendly interface with smart handling of unavailable payment methods
- +Adds missing features such as auto-recurring subscriptions after support intervention
Common complaints
- −Missing auto-complete option for orders, requiring manual status change (since 9.0.57)
- −Apple Pay and Google Pay sometimes failed to render correctly in the mini-cart×2
- −Express Checkout did not pull customer addresses from wallet
- −Hosted Fields validation issues required a temporary fix before an official update
- −General compatibility issues reported, later fixed by the developer
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.34★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.40★
- 19%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 72 total
Latest reviews · 72 analyzed
- 2026-06-02★★★★★Great support and fast issue resolutionfriendwp
- 2026-03-03★★★★★Auto Completekevinoc
- 2026-02-17★★★★★Top quality Customer Supportitmonitor
- 2026-02-17★★★★★Highly Recommendrageaga1nst
- 2025-12-09★★★★★great support and great pluginmcdeth
- 2025-10-15★★★★★BAHU LTDbahupro
- 2025-10-15★★★★★Good paypal pluginzhufucong
- 2025-10-15★★★★★Very Goodcarlosfzk
- 2025-09-26★★★★★Good service fast replynayanashok
- 2025-09-11★★★★★Just uploaded this pluginbeamthemup1-shot
Releases
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For 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.
79
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
81
Prior 7-day baseline
66
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,557
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,024
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-2.5%
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.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.23
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
85%
5★ share in analyzed sample
19%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-38%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.43 → 4.34★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered