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PAYONE WooCommerce

by PAYONE · Payments

This plugin connects your WooCommerce shop to the PAYONE payment API. You can receive payments through Credit Card, Direct Debit and many more.

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⚠ Few reviews

Health

B 77/100

Few reviews

Active installs

300+

≈310 estimated

Momentum

+16%

downloads vs prior 30d

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How scoring works →
77 Health · B
Maintenance 96/100
Rating quality 60/100
Support 70/100

77 health vs 68 average across 1,685 Payments plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

2.5%

of downloads still active

At least 300 of 11.9K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Payments plugin keeps 1.0%, across 1,043 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.

This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.

Details

Version
2.11.0
Last updated
4mo ago
Added
2018-10-18 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
10.6.2
Requires PHP
7.4.0

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.

82 / 100

Well optimized

Most to gain: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100

Updated 117 days ago

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 10.6.2, the current branch or newer

Rating quality 56/100

2.6★ over 7 reviews, smoothed to 3.92★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 68/100

2 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+16% vs prior 30d
131 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 522 · peaks are release surges

3172 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ 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 1 Nov 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2.62 Nov 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

772 Nov 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.

1.1K2 Nov 2026

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

4mo ago

latest release · v2.11.0 · 8 Jul 2026

20

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.11.0 · 8 Jul 20262.6.0 · 4 Oct 20232.5.2 · 15 May 20232.5.1 · 4 May 20232.5.0 · 27 Apr 20232.4.1 · 28 Feb 20232.4.0 · 16 Feb 20232.3.0 · 20 Oct 20222.2.0 · 11 Aug 20222.1.0 · 12 May 20222.0.3 · 19 Apr 20222.0.2 · 14 Apr 2022v1.7.1 · 14 Aug 2020v1.7.0 · 13 Aug 2020

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 33% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.6 56%
v2.11 33%
v2.8 5.8%
v1.7 5.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈310

Crossed into this band 22 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 300.

Install history since 17 Nov 2019

3002 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ kai
    4.5y ago

    hey payone, are you listening at all? you 2.0 update activated the new payment methods automatically and we found out only days after that. what a desaster. my already installed klarna pay did not work because of this. but you won’t read this review anyhow. so rip. kai

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  2. ★★★★★ pupazze
    4.5y ago

    No idea who is doing the updates, can’t be anyone who knows what they are doing. First the asset folder is completely missing in the package, so you have to search for the necessary files yourself on the Github page. Then with the last update, new payment methods were simply activated automatically, such as ALI Pay. > Please stop letting the trainee do the updates – YOU ARE A PAYMENT PROVIDER. 🙁 This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by pupazze. This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by pupazze.

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  3. ★★★★★ christian1081
    5.0y ago

    Mit dem Plugin funktionieren die meisten Zahlarten zuverlässig. Seit einigen Wochen haben wir aber ein Problem mit der Zahlart SEPA Lastschrift (Payone). Wir vermuten den Fehler in diesem Plugin. Leider reagiert der Plugin-Hersteller pooliestudios weder auf Anrufe noch auf E-Mails. Auch über github und den Technischen Support von Payone gibt es keine Hilfe. Letztes Update des Plugins ist mehr als ein Jahr her. Offenbar hat Payone kein Interesse mehr dieses Plugin in einer aktuellen Version anzubieten. Für uns bedeutet das, wir werden uns mittelfristig nach einem anderen Zahlungsanbieter umsehen müssen, der eine funktionierende Anbindung für unseren WooCommerce-Shop anbietet.

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  4. ★★★★★ torstenhauser
    6.7y ago

    Be aware that even though BS PAYONE offers subscriptions as a payment provider, this plugin does not support them and you have to implement this on your own. Support of the company is nice and friendly. Support of the plugin devs (Pooliestudios) is non-existent.

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  5. ★★★★★ tomwatsonnet
    6.8y ago

    Installation was stressless. A lot of configuration options. Recommendation for PrePayments in addition: WooCommerce Smart Reminder Emails Plugin. Wordpress 5.3.2, WooCommerce 3.8.1 This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by tomwatsonnet.

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  6. ★★★★★ poolie
    7.0y ago

    just fine

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  7. ★★★★★ Anonymous User 17476180
    7.2y ago

    I would NOT recommend the plugin nor Payone. We are trying for 2 weeks now to get the secure invoice gateway working, but it just doesnt work anymore. I dont now. It always ends with an error message “preauthorization (rec)” and on the frontend “Payment guarantee has been rejected [351] / Keine Bonität” even when ordering for 40€. 30 people have tried and all have been rejected. We even called Payone 4 times and the only response we got was “it should be working, it is all looking good, try it later” So much money we have lost already…

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Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

German 25%

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

7 of 8 pass · checked 2 Nov 2026

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

  • ✓ Says what it does "This plugin connects your WooCommerce shop to the PAYONE payment API. You can receive payments through Cred..."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 3 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 3 of 3 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("use this"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, PayPal.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 22 headings and 45 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 7,076 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text All 2 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-10-11 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
  2. 2026-10-09 300+ → 200+ down after 3 days in tier
  3. 2026-10-06 200+ → 300+ up after 21 days in tier
  4. 2026-09-15 300+ → 200+ down after 413 days in tier
  5. 2025-07-29 400+ → 300+ down after 78 days in tier
  6. 2025-05-12 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-05-11 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2025-05-09 300+ → 400+ up after 5 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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PAYONE WooCommerce: 300+ active installs, 2.6★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/bs-payone-woocommerce

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