Payzah Payment Gateway for WooCommerce vs PayPlug for WooCommerce (Official)

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

PayPlug for WooCommerce (Official) is the safest pick: health B · 81 against 75 for Payzah Payment Gateway for WooCommerce, led by stronger maintenance.

Payzah Payment Gateway for WooCommerce

by Payzah Payment Systems

Health B75

PayPlug for WooCommerce (Official)

by Payplug

Health B81

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	Payzah Payment Gateway for WooCommerce	PayPlug for WooCommerce (Official)
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	40–50	4K–5K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+33% ✓	Stable
Overall health	B · 75	B · 81 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	78/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100 ✓	66/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★ ✓	3.7★
Reviews	1	7 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	82/100	87/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	8mo ago	16d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	249	4.3K ✓
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.	+8%	+37%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.9%	2.0% ✓
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.