Direct Payments WP – Receive Payments with Forms
by Digages · Forms
Also makes 8 other plugins · 1.2K+ installs across the portfolio →
Direct Payments WP lets you easily accept payments via bank transfers, mobile money, and P2P platforms on your WordPress website.
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Health
B 75/100
Few reviews · Open vulnerability
Active installs
50+
≈60 estimated
Momentum
+18%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “bank transfer” for “receive”. “bank transfer” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “receive” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
75 health vs 65 average across 2,509 Forms plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.3%
of downloads still active
At least 50 of 3.8K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Forms plugin keeps 1.2%, across 1,668 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Forms 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 7 releases 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
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
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 96 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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.
35
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
13%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| p2p your tag | #4 | #9 | 0 |
| receive | #6 | #22 | up 4 |
| direct | #17 | #23 | down 2 |
| direct bank transfer | #11 | #23 | up 1 |
| mtn mobile money | #11 | #19 | down 1 |
| accept crypto payments | #18 | #24 | down 1 |
| mobile money payments | #23 | #24 | down 2 |
| bank transfer your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| forms your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| mobile money your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| payments your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
55 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 7 listed. 48 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “bank transfer” for “receive”. “bank transfer” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “receive” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 6 Jan 2025 · 663 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 593 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #20,100 to #21,200, alongside the other plugins at 50+ 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.
Release cadence
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
7
releases in the last 12 months
5mo ago
latest release · v1.4.1 · 5 Jun 2026
12
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
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 “50+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 4 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 60.
At the current install trend, crossing 60+ in roughly 41 days.
Install history since 7 Jan 2025
Security history
via Wordfence Intelligence2 open vulnerabilities affect the current version (1.4.1). 0 of 2 disclosed are patched.
- Open Medium · 4.3 Direct Payments WP <= 1.3.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure ↗2025-12-31 CVE-2025-49340 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affects <= 1.3.0 No patch available
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 HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0
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
6 of 8 pass · checked 26 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Direct Payments WP lets you easily accept payments via bank transfers, mobile money, and P2P platforms on y..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 6 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 6 of 6 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("who want"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, PayPal.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 3 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,884 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-27 60+ → 50+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2026-10-13 50+ → 60+ up after 43 days in tier
- 2026-08-31 40+ → 50+ up after 24 days in tier
- 2026-08-07 30+ → 40+ up after 41 days in tier
- 2026-06-27 20+ → 30+ up after 31 days in tier
- 2026-05-27 10+ → 20+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-05-23 20+ → 10+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2026-05-19 10+ → 20+ up after 1 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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Checkout with Zelle on Woocommerce 3K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Mollie Forms 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Payment Forms for Paystack 2K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Direct Payments for WooCommerce – Bank Transfer, Mobile Money, Crypto and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Payments 800+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More 5M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.9★ · 1 shared tag B
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