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Manual Credit Card Processing for WooCommerce vs Backend Payments for WooCommerce

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Backend Payments for WooCommerce is the safest pick: health A · 87 against 39 for Manual Credit Card Processing for WooCommerce, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

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Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Manual Credit Card Processing for WooCommerce	Backend Payments for WooCommerce
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	800–900 ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-20%
Overall health	F · 39	A · 87 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	58/100	83/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	3.3★	4.3★ ✓
Reviews	3	12 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	37/100	92/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	8.4y ago	3mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	54	399 ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	+25%	+4%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.3%	1.5% ✓
Category	Payments	Payments

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

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7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.