Move Payment vs WooCommerce PayPal Payments

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

WooCommerce PayPal Payments is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Move Payment

by movepayment

Health B80

WooCommerce PayPal Payments

by WooCommerce

Health B75

Active-install trajectory

Move PaymentWooCommerce PayPal Payments

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	Move Payment	WooCommerce PayPal Payments
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100–200	800K–900K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+25% ✓	Stable
Overall health	—	B · 75 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	47/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	73/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	2.9★ ✓
Reviews	0	586 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	88/100 ✓	87/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	29d ago	15d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	372	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.	+15%	-11%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	3.7% ✓	2.8%
Category	eCommerce	eCommerce

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

Release activity

Move PaymentWooCommerce 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.