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Buy Now Plus — Payments with Stripe

by Blair Williams · eCommerce

Also makes 3 other plugins · 530.0K+ installs across the portfolio →

A cloud-backed plugin that lets you securely accept Credit Card payments on your site using Stripe without needing to install an SSL certificate.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
82 Health · B
Maintenance 99/100
Rating quality 70/100
Support 70/100

82 health vs 68 average across 5,562 eCommerce plugins

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.

89 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

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

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,405 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+38% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

55

now · peak 144

6830d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Buy Now Plus · #31028 you Contact Form 7 · #2564 WooCommerce PayPal P · #81 WooCommerce Stripe P · #85

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.

6.8Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

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.

3

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v1.0.4

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.4 · 3mo ago1.0.3 · 7mo ago1.0.2 · 7mo ago1.0.1 · 1.3y ago1.0.0 · 10.2y ago

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈17

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2019-10-20 · 1,381 observations

10Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.0.4
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2016-06-09 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
6.0
Tested up to
7.0.3
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. gameslopedy
    10.1y ago

    This plugin is cool but I think it has some shortcoming: – There is no statistics on buynowplus.com , we cannot see the transaction is failed or not – Checkout form display must be develop for quality visualization – I also cannot see the stats on my stripe account events too. – Some credit cards may be require name and last name, zip code fields, you may be make require them

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  2. usuaggie
    10.2y ago

    I have been selling an electronic accessory locally at trade shows, but it recently started gaining traction from folks in other states. I needed a way for them to buy it through social media and wanted something simple on my site for them to purchase through as well. I was getting pretty frustrated with the costs and hassle of setting up ecommerce plugins to sell one little product. Luckily I stumbled on this gem. The extra 2%/transaction is well worth the savings in my time getting this thing off the ground and I’m loving Stripe way more than PayPal! Anyways, just wanted to tell you guy’s thanks for this slick service. Looks like I’m one of the early adopters, so looking forward to any new developments here as well.

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  3. Anonymous
    10.2y ago

    I got this plugin thinking it would be much more feature. But all it does is allows me to connect my stripe account and create checkout buttons. I’m happy with this though because I don’t like the clutter of stuff I don’t use-plus I don’t have to screw around with SSL on my sites because they’ve already figured that out. This thing was unbelievably easy to get setup and works great for what it does so the small fee is worth it to me. I’d recommend this service to anyone wanting to start selling something fast.

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  4. Jakub
    10.2y ago

    The fee was 1% – which is still written on their website. Increased to 2% without sending an email or any other message.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2026-01-27 CVE-2026-1295 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.0.2 Patched in 1.0.3

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-05 20+ → 10+ down after 58 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-08 10+ → 20+ up after 136 days in tier
  3. 2025-10-23 20+ → 10+ down after 341 days in tier
  4. 2024-11-16 30+ → 20+ down after 328 days in tier
  5. 2023-12-24 40+ → 30+ down after 5 days in tier
  6. 2023-12-19 30+ → 40+ up after 120 days in tier
  7. 2023-08-21 40+ → 30+ down after 5 days in tier
  8. 2023-08-16 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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