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Yoco Payments
Great for taking money but bad at keeping things running.
GrowingPoor rating
59/100
Reliability issues and poor support undermine an otherwise functional payment gateway.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.4★
43 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+35%
Growing fast
48 → 65 installs/day
Warnings
- 70% of reviewers have no other wp.org activity — pattern often associated with paid or solicited 5★.
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.08★
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 · +35% in the last year
48/day a year ago→65/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayYoco Payments is viewed as a usable gateway that often breaks after updates and is hampered by slow or unresponsive support, with occasional performance and server reliability concerns.
What people like
- +Support is responsive and helpful when issues are addressed
Common complaints
- −Plugin stops working after updates (e.g., version 3.0.2) (since 3.0.2)×2
- −Support response times are slow and communication is poor, especially outside regular hours×3
- −Integration can cause site performance slowdown
- −Server reliability issues lead to downtime and transaction problems
Review trustHeavily skewed
- 3.08★Verified rating — drops from 4.40★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 70%One-shot reviewers — their only wp.org activity is this review — pattern linked to solicited 5★
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 43 total
Latest reviews · 43 analyzed
- 2024-08-16★★★★★Really nice gateway but support is TERRIBLEhypeonweb
- 2023-10-15★★★★★All GOOD!digizencoza
- 2023-09-29★★★★★Fantastic Payment Processor / Support Terriblegeorgefivaz
- 2023-07-01★★★★★Slows down websitevividnuance
- 2023-06-03★★★★★Very poor supportgeorgewhiteside
- 2022-05-31★★★★★YOCO ROCKS!!!lilithra291-shot
- 2022-05-18★★★★★FASTDavid
- 2022-02-16★★★★★Great service 👏dane20
- 2022-01-28★★★★★Yoco online paymentkhothatso1-shot
- 2022-01-27★★★★★Yoco Machinesbonnie821-shot
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.
49
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
66
Prior 7-day baseline
40
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
49
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-25.8%
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.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.54
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
84%
5★ share in analyzed sample
70%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.42 → 3.08★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered