8Pay Payment Gateway
by 8pay · Payments
Initiate the payment processing journey with ease. Simply install the 8Pay plugin within your Woocommerce store, enabling you to accept crypto payment …
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Health
D 54/100
Stale · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈15 estimated
Momentum
-40%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “crypto” and “payment” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
54 health vs 68 average across 1,680 Payments plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.4%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 2.7K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Payments plugin keeps 1.0%, across 1,042 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Payments plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 1 reviews to 2021-11-10The one review here is enthusiastic, praising direct crypto payments to a self-custody wallet and an install that follows the usual WordPress and WooCommerce setup.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 716 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.7.11; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
3 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 716 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
33
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
0.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 9d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 9d
0.0
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8pay your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| crypto your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| payment your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
4 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 3 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “crypto” and “payment” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 173 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2.4 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 1 May 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ ra0ndrew5.0y ago
I added 8Pay as a solution to all of my sites and a few of my customers as an alternative way of payment. Now I can finally have sales directly in crypto and the beauty of all, it goes directly to my metamask wallet, no bank, no organization or payment processor. To install it all I had to do is add it as you add any other module on wordpress, woocommerce and configure it following the guide on their website. Since some of my clients have also subscriptions it was difficult for them to find a payment gateway to allow subscriptions, and when you do use one it is always a lengthy process to get vetted.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Initiate the payment processing journey with ease. Simply install the 8Pay plugin within your Woocommerce s..."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce.
- ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 2 lists.
- ! Enough to quote 602 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 3 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-06-04 20+ → 10+ down after 152 days in tier
- 2024-01-04 30+ → 20+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2023-12-28 10+ → 30+ up after 173 days in tier
- 2023-07-08 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2023-07-05 10+ → 20+ up after 17 days in tier
- 2023-06-18 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2023-06-16 10+ → 20+ up after 47 days in tier
- 2023-04-30 20+ → 10+ down after 29 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Crypto Payment Gateway with Instant Payouts 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
Pay With MetaMask For WooCommerce – Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway 400+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
CryptAPI Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 400+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
WooPayments: Integrated WooCommerce Payments 800K+ installs · 3.5★ · 1 shared tag B -
WooCommerce Tax (formerly WooCommerce Shipping & Tax) 500K+ installs · 2.2★ · 1 shared tag B -
Payment Gateway Based Fees and Discounts for WooCommerce 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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