Buy Now Plus — Payments with Stripe
by Blair Williams · eCommerce
A cloud-backed plugin that lets you securely accept Credit Card payments on your site using Stripe without needing to install an SSL certificate.
82 health vs 73 average across 1,959 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.
Excellent listing optimization
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
45
now · peak 144
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-05 20+ → 10+ down after 58 days in band
- 2026-03-08 10+ → 20+ up after 136 days in band
- 2025-10-23 20+ → 10+ down after 341 days in band
- 2024-11-16 30+ → 20+ down after 328 days in band
- 2023-12-24 40+ → 30+ down after 5 days in band
- 2023-12-19 30+ → 40+ up after 120 days in band
- 2023-08-21 40+ → 30+ down after 5 days in band
- 2023-08-16 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.8★ · 3 shared tags B -
WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ installs · 3.1★ · 3 shared tags B -
Mollie Payments for WooCommerce 100K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B -
SureCart – Ecommerce Made Easy For Selling Physical Products, Digital Downloads, Subscriptions, Donations, & Payments 80K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A -
Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy 40K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A
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