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Braintree for WooCommerce Payment Gateway
Smooth integration meets a security storm.
GrowingPoor ratingAutomattic
52/100
Users report serious security vulnerabilities and poor support despite the easy integration.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
2.6★
50 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+54%
Growing fast
67 → 104 installs/day
Warnings
- Distributed from inside Automattic's main product (Jetpack / WooCommerce / Akismet ecosystem) — growth is partly captive.
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 2.59★
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 fast · +54% in the last year
67/day a year ago→104/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayBraintree for WooCommerce is seen as easy to integrate with helpful support by some users, but many report serious fraud protection gaps, outdated code, and consistently poor customer service.
What people like
- +Responsive and helpful support×5
- +Easy to use and straightforward integration×2
- +Supports both PayPal and credit-card payments
- +Stable operation over multiple years
Common complaints
- −Inadequate fraud protection and security vulnerabilities×2
- −Unresponsive or low-quality support×7
- −Uses outdated framework and generates deprecated warnings×2
- −Auto-update errors and failure to install updates
- −Compatibility issues with recent WooCommerce versions
- −Unavailable or unresponsive sales support in Australia
- −Private repository limits community contributions and bug fixes
- −Poor chargeback handling and lack of dispute information
- −Incorrect language detection for customers
Review trustMostly organic
- 2.59★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 2.60★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 50 total
Latest reviews · 51 analyzed
- 2026-02-18★★★★★Perfect Plugin & Responsive Supportelkrat
- 2024-08-08★★★★★Beware of velocity attacks (failed orders) with this pluginZade1-shot
- 2024-02-20★★★★★Subpar SupportJosh
- 2023-08-22★★★★★Terrible supportGeorge
- 2023-02-16★★★★★Easy to use. Great Support!!yfirvida
- 2022-06-21★★★★★Not available in australiathetonto
- 2022-03-22★★★★★Worst Customer Service Evernitsa1001-shot
- 2022-03-18★★★★★Issues after 2.6.3 upgradeMarvin
- 2021-09-24★★★★★Has been working fine for five yearsWudman
- 2021-07-29★★★★★Non-existent fraud protectionpatrickhs
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Braintree for WooCommerce Payment Gateway
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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.
91
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
84
Prior 7-day baseline
83
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
582
Mean release-day peak (30d)
108
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+8.3%
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.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.74
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
37%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
2.59 → 2.59★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered