69
Paystack WooCommerce Payment Gateway
A vital African payment tool that hates the US dollar.
HealthyGrowing
69/100
It serves African markets well but fails when users attempt to process foreign currencies.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.5★
24 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+9%
Growing
107 → 117 installs/day
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
Growing · +9% in the last year
107/day a year ago→117/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPaystack WooCommerce Payment Gateway is a well-regarded payment solution for African e-commerce (particularly Nigeria and Ghana) that is praised for easy setup, but is undermined by recurring complaints about payment processing failures, poor support, and currency configuration issues.
What people like
- +Easy setup and works out of the box for supported currencies×3
- +Considered a strong payment option for Ghanaian and Nigerian e-commerce sites×2
- +Customer support praised by at least one user
Common complaints
- −Payments complete on Paystack's side but do not reflect in WooCommerce, leaving orders stuck on a loading screen
- −Currency support issues — the gateway fails or throws errors when the store uses a currency other than the natively supported ones (e.g. USD via a currency switcher)×2
- −Plugin does not appear on the checkout page after installation and key entry for some users
- −Payout delays and fund withholding, with support requesting business justification before releasing large payments
- −Poor or unresponsive customer support reported by multiple users×2
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.81★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 24 total
Latest reviews · 24 analyzed
- 2023-12-09★★★★★Gateway disabled: This plugin does not support your store currency.alabius
- 2022-12-05★★★★★Great Appquickassist
- 2022-12-05★★★★★Stole our money – thieveszebroiduser1-shot
- 2022-09-27★★★★★Payment not reflecting on woocommercegodwinotaru
- 2022-07-12★★★★★Worse SupportNtokozo1-shot
- 2022-06-02★★★★★Paystack Plugin is a Life saverTheophilus Adegbohungbe
- 2022-01-26★★★★★Very detailedjamm
- 2021-11-25★★★★★Excellent Payment Gateway Plugin for Ghanaiansjapohim
- 2021-09-23★★★★★Works for naira but fails on dollarsqausim
- 2021-05-20★★★★★Pay for order pagebashox
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Paystack WooCommerce Payment Gateway
Top eCommerce plugins, ranked by score.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.
195
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
218
Prior 7-day baseline
182
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
378
Mean release-day peak (30d)
195
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-10.6%
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.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
5.48
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
88%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
—
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.50 → 4.81★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered