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YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards
A simple gift card tool that occasionally breaks your entire checkout.
DecliningPoor rating
55/100
Users appreciate the easy setup but frequently struggle with performance issues and unreliable support.
Active installs
~12,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.3★
52 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-12%
Declining
117 → 104 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.26★
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 · -12% in the last year
117/day a year ago→104/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayYITH WooCommerce Gift Cards is seen as easy to set up and useful for creating cards, but users frequently encounter performance problems, broken checkout functionality, and unresponsive support.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and configure×4
- +Allows creation of gift cards
- +Free version works well and is feature-complete×2
- +Support can be fast and helpful×2
- +Meets basic functional needs×2
Common complaints
- −Deduction functionality removed from admin screen, breaking balance updates
- −Significant performance slowdown and high server resource usage×3
- −Support is often unhelpful, slow, or provides incorrect assistance×5
- −Gift-card codes fail at checkout or do not affect order total×2
- −Premium version introduces errors and is less stable than the free version×2
- −Mobile compatibility issues (gift cards not added to cart, gallery not visible)
- −Billing and auto-renewal problems, including double charges
- −Incompatibility with Ajax-add-to-cart and incorrect order calculations
- −Updates can cause fatal errors, requiring rollbacks
- −Customization options are limited
- −Email templates cannot be translated via Loco Translate
- −Requires excessive RAM (hundreds of MB) on servers
- −Frequent bugs cause wasted time and missed sales
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.26★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.30★
- 12%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-04-152025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 52 total
Latest reviews · 52 analyzed
- 2026-04-05★★★★★Does not work on Backend Ordersmindtakerminis
- 2025-09-10★★★★★bloated, lack of customization pluginzlatimuud
- 2024-11-06★★★★★Didn't work, support non existentswearyknitter
- 2024-05-24★★★★★HORRIBLE PLUGINjohaningversen1-shot
- 2024-03-19★★★★★Totally crap!kongop
- 2022-06-24★★★★★It is a horrible messalzate1985
- 2022-04-08★★★★★Auto Renew Subscription it's ON set by them not by usereduardn1
- 2022-04-04★★★★★Muy buen servicioiscampos
- 2022-02-16★★★★★Warning ! it overloads cpu and ramcrazyben0013
- 2022-02-10★★★★★Never working as expectedrainerd
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards
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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.
134
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
89
Prior 7-day baseline
107
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,324
Mean release-day peak (30d)
134
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+50.6%
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.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.10
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
52%
5★ share in analyzed sample
12%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.27 → 3.26★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered