MONEI Payments for WooCommerce vs WooCommerce PayPal Payments

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

MONEI Payments for WooCommerce is the safest pick: health A · 90 against 75 for WooCommerce PayPal Payments, led by stronger rating quality.

MONEI Payments for WooCommerce

by monei

Health A90

WooCommerce PayPal Payments

by WooCommerce

Health B75

Active-install trajectory

MONEI Payments for WooCommerce moved up one install band, 400+ to 500+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	MONEI Payments for WooCommerce	WooCommerce PayPal Payments
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	500–600	800K–900K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	400+ → 500+ ✓	Stable
Overall health	A · 90 ✓	B · 75
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	94/100 ✓	47/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	73/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.7★ ✓	2.9★
Reviews	45	586 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	98/100 ✓	87/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	14d ago ✓	15d ago
Downloads, last 30d	1.6K	513.3K ✓
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.	-19%	-11%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	2.6%	2.8% ✓
Category	eCommerce	eCommerce

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

Release activity

MONEI Payments for WooCommerceWooCommerce PayPal Payments

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.