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Amazon payment services

by Amazon Payment Services · Payments

Amazon payment services makes it really easy to start accepting online payments (credit & debit cards) in the Middle East.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 46/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈190 estimated

Momentum

+75%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “amazon payment services”, “apple pay” and “installments” 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.

How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 10/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 68 average across 1,680 Payments plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.2%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 8.3K lifetime downloads are still running, above 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.

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Details

Version
2.3.7
Last updated
2.9y ago
Added
2021-08-10 · 5 yrs old
Requires WP
5.3
Tested up to
6.4.14
Requires PHP
7.0

Recent review vibe

read from the latest 2 reviews to 2023-12-20
Mixed Compatibility

One reviewer hits a PHP error in the gateway class, another says the country list only covers a handful of Middle Eastern markets, so there's nothing to go on beyond those two complaints.

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.

57 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 19/100

Updated 1051 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 68/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.4.14; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 52/100

3.5★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.08★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 1051 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+75% vs prior 30d
530 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 550 · peaks are release surges

16131 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.531 Oct 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

4631 Oct 2026

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

1.6K31 Oct 2026

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.9y ago

latest release · v2.3.7 · 15 Dec 2023

11

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.3.7 · 15 Dec 20232.3.6 · 26 Oct 20232.3.5 · 2 May 20232.3.4 · 6 Apr 20232.3.3 · 10 Feb 20232.3.2 · 7 Feb 20232.3.1 · 12 Jan 20232.3.0 · 29 Oct 20222.2.5 · 12 Jan 20222.2.4 · 12 Jan 20222.2.3 · 10 Aug 2021

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v2.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

Crossed into this band 26 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 200.

Install history since 4 Oct 2022

10031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Joe Nuts
    2.9y ago

    Just this small issue Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in /var/www/vhosts/***/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/amazon-payment-services/classes/class-wc-gateway-aps-super.php:561

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ lesliedeanbrown
    3.0y ago

    UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Bahrain.No other countries available or supported it seems. 🤨😕🤔If you’re from another country, you can’t select it because it’s not on the list. This topic was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by lesliedeanbrown.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.4.2

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✕ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✕ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✕ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Arabic 67%

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

2 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Amazon payment services makes it really easy to start accepting online payments (credit & debit cards) in t..."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 3 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 432 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "Credit/ Debit card" does not.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-10-05 200+ → 100+ down after 20 days in tier
  2. 2026-09-15 100+ → 200+ up after 60 days in tier
  3. 2026-07-17 200+ → 100+ down after 339 days in tier
  4. 2025-08-12 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-08-11 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in tier
  6. 2025-08-07 300+ → 200+ down after 283 days in tier
  7. 2024-10-28 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2024-10-26 300+ → 400+ up after 8 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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Amazon payment services: 100+ active installs, 3.5★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/amazon-payment-services

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