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Zarinpal Gateway
A functional gateway plagued by copycat claims and broken updates.
DecliningPoor rating
58/100
Users appreciate the core functionality but suffer from broken updates and no rollback options.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
3.5★
13 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-26%
Declining fast
248 → 183 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.80★
- MINORdownloads down 26% 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 · -26% in the last year
248/day a year ago→183/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayZarinpal Gateway is a WooCommerce payment plugin with a mixed reputation, where users appreciate its core functionality but raise serious concerns about compatibility breakage after updates and allegations of being a poorly-executed copy of another plugin.
What people like
- +Generally functional as a payment gateway and appreciated for keeping up with WooCommerce updates×2
Common complaints
- −Incompatibility with WooCommerce's 'Cache Product Objects' feature after an update
- −Compatibility issues with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) introduced after an update
- −No versioned SVN tags provided, making it impossible to roll back to a previous version when a broken update is released
- −Accused of being a low-quality copy of another plugin with weak support×2
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.80★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.50★
- 23%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 67% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-12-112025-09-072026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 13 total
Latest reviews · 13 analyzed
- 2026-02-25★★★★★Cache Objectsahmadmahjoob
- 2025-12-13★★★★★آشغال و مزخرفiamirhosseinam1-shot
- 2024-12-09★★★★★hpossijimoko1-shot
- 2024-12-09★★★★★مشکل High-Performance order storagejustanewuser1-shot
- 2024-12-09★★★★★cant rollbackوردپرس ایرانی
- 2024-12-08★★★★★مشکل در بروزرسانی جدبد ادامه داردfaracomputer
- 2021-04-09★★★★★بهترین درگاه واسطmehdi
- 2021-01-16★★★★★Nice and Tidybobmorain
- 2019-12-25★★★★★خوبهpadenashop
- 2018-03-08★★★★★copy!Mehdi64
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Zarinpal 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.
325
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
211
Prior 7-day baseline
213
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
164
Mean release-day peak (30d)
250
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+54.0%
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.
67%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.92
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
54%
5★ share in analyzed sample
23%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.46 → 3.80★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered