Payment Gateway of Stripe for WooCommerce
by ThemeHigh · Payments
Also makes 15 other plugins · 469.1K+ installs across the portfolio →
Integrate Stripe Payment Gateway in WooCommerce and accept cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Klarna, Alipay, and more with seamless, secure checkout.
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Health
A 85/100
no flags
Active installs
7K+
≈7.8K estimated
Momentum
-37%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “credit card”, “google pay” and “apple pay” for “stripe payment gateway”, “alipay” and “stripe payment”. “credit card” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “stripe payment gateway” sits at #4 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “google pay” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “alipay” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “apple pay” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #17. “stripe payment” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
85 health vs 68 average across 1,691 Payments plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.2%
of downloads still active
At least 7K of 583.7K 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.
This plugin shipped 5 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
Well tuned across the board
Updated 26 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
4.4★ over 66 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.3★
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
1 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
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.
40
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
24%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| stripe payment gateway | #4 | #5 | 0 |
| due alipay for woocommerce | #2 | #2 | — |
| bitcoin payment gateway | #2 | #2 | 0 |
| alipay | #6 | #6 | down 1 |
| stripe checkout your tag | #8 | #13 | up 1 |
| payment gateway | #8 | #7 | 0 |
| stripe | #9 | #10 | up 1 |
| wechat payment gateway | #3 | #5 | 0 |
| stripe payments your tag | #10 | #14 | up 1 |
| stripe payment | #9 | #12 | down 1 |
| uk payment gateway | #4 | #5 | — |
| auto payment gateway | #4 | #4 | 0 |
| gateway | #12 | #7 | down 3 |
| alipay payment gateway | #4 | #5 | 0 |
| stripe checkout redirection | #4 | #5 | — |
| payment gateway mastercard | #4 | #3 | down 1 |
| mastercard | #7 | #3 | 0 |
| klarna | #11 | #9 | 0 |
| stripe gateway | #5 | #6 | 0 |
| secure online payment gateway | #5 | #6 | 0 |
| credit card your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| google pay your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
355 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 287 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “credit card”, “google pay” and “apple pay” for “stripe payment gateway”, “alipay” and “stripe payment”. “credit card” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “stripe payment gateway” sits at #4 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “google pay” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “alipay” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “apple pay” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #17. “stripe payment” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,492 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 15.8K · peaks are release surges
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
5
releases in the last 12 months
26d ago
latest release · v5.1.1 · 9 Oct 2026
114
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. 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 “7K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 43 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 8K.
Install history since 28 Oct 2020
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ leprebro11mo ago
I’ve been using this plugin for a while now. It’s a great solution. I had an issue with OAUTH 2.0 authentication on my end, and the support team helped resolve it very quickly. Thank you!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Arnan1.5y ago
4 months of back and forth with support tickets and useless time wasting. Half of my orders have something wrong with it because of this dumb plugin. Thousands of lines of code so complicated that I can’t figure anything out to fork it and fix things myself. And apparently they made it so hard to work with that they can’t figure it out themselves either. The absolutely inability to resolve any issues from their support nerds is appalling and a waste of everyone’s time. And what’s worse. It’s the only one that barely works… So I can’t even switch to another plugin.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ jncarlosrod1.8y ago
Payments with card and local are active but keep sending errors when trying to pay (No API key provided. (HINT: set your API key using “Stripe::setApiKey()”). It’s very hard and frustrating to configure. It was a lost of time to try to implement this plugin. This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by jncarlosrod. This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by jncarlosrod.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ leavingholland1.8y ago
iDeal, for me the most important component of the plugin, does not work. It sends API requests to Stripe by the dozen per hour, but not when my customers need one. And if it does, it changes so fast the order bounces as failed in my system. On the other side it does not trigger email notifications for me as website owner, so how can I trust it sends email to customers? I lost a lot of money using this plugin, but since there is no better option for me, I had to switch off iDeal in the hope they fix it, I send numerous error logs, but so far they cannot solve it. I get different error messages every time, Some are mentioned here as wel, and if I do get any at all!! Because sometimes I do not even get one, and most payments don’t even make it to the Stripe Dashboard. It is like Russian Roulette, sometimes it works, most times it does not. Other payments options seem work good, only iDeal does not work. Most of my cleintes pay per iDeal so I am in trouble. When I try the Stripe checkout it does not even show on the checkout page, so something is wrong when it comes to iDeal on every action of this plugin. I have tried their other plugin, and tried iDeal through Paypal and it is the same story, the payment for iDeal does not show for customers, and those instructions don’t even resemble by far how the dashboard looks, and fields for webhooks and buttons are missing, and again iDeal is not working. I use Classispress and Classis Woocommerce. But that should not matter since they claim compatibility. It is pure a problem in de plugin with the Api requests.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ xdekhckr1.8y ago
It looks like some time ago webtoffee sold this plugin to themehigh… It got worse. After installing themehigh application in stripe we are redirected to page where they state that we need to purchase premium in order to connect our webiste to stripe, which is not true: Get started Thank you for installing the ThemeHigh App. With this app, you can set up the Stripe payment gateway in WordPress/WooCommerce installations to accept payments for your eCommerce website. This app requires the premium version of the WooCommerce Stripe Payment Plugin by ThemeHigh to be installed and activated on your WooCommerce store. Once you have your plugin activated in your WordPress dashboard, go to the General Settings of the ThemeHigh Stripe plugin and click on the Connect to ThemeHigh App button. Follow the onscreen instructions, review the permissions and click “Install app. Once the connection is established, it will pass ThemeHigh keys to API server and connection with ThemeHigh Stripe App would be established. Support If you need any assistance with the ThemeHigh App or WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway plugin, please reach out to our support team. This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata). This topic was modified 5 months, 2 weeks ago by xdekhckr. Reason: plugin got even worse This topic was modified 5 months, 2 weeks ago by xdekhckr. Reason: plugin got even worse
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ affli1.9y ago
We did not have sales for 2 weeks and could not figure out why. It turns out if you’re a customer using real life data, you get this error:No API key provided. (HINT: set your API key using “Stripe::setApiKey()”. You can generate API keys from the Stripe web interface. See -stripe api- for details, or email [email protected] if you have any questions.Even when it worked fine before and no changes were made and everything in the dashboard said Connected. Immediately uninstalled the plugin and used another.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ jseeman2.0y ago
A++ customer support. I have been using the Stripe free plugin version to start with and had a few issues to resolve. WebTofee customer support were extremely responsive to my issues even though I had not paid for the pro version and ensured they were resolved. They also followed up to ensure the solution I ended up with was acceptable. Based on this experience I then proceeded to install their plugin for my PayPal gateway as well. Will continue to look at other plugins they produce and would not hesitate to support them.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ robocrax2.1y ago
Only plugin which supports Stripe’s hosted payment page. Only payment plugin I need.
Read on wp.org ↗
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
- 2025-08-28 Version 5.0.6 [Enhancement] – Code optimization 5.0.6
- 2025-08-21 Version 5.0.5 [Tweak] – Plugin name updated. [Enhancement] – Code optimization 5.0.5
- 2025-07-17 Version 5.0.4 [Compatibility] – WordPress 6.8.2 [Compatibility] – WooCommerce 10.0.2 5.0.4
- 2025-07-04 Version 5.0.3 *[Fix] – Enhanced Express Button Functionality. *[compatibility] – Woocommerce 9.9.5 5.0.3
- 2025-06-23 Version 5.0.2 *[Fix] – Resolved an issue where the Apple Pay button was not clickable on certain sites due to improper shipping cost type handling. *[compatibility] – Woocommerce 9.9.4 5.0.2
- 2025-05-30 Version 5.0.1 [Enhancement] – Invoice creation at stripe on stripe checkout payment option. [Fix] – new iDEAL 2.0 integration. [Fix] – Compatibility issue with wooocmerce quick pay plugin. [Fix] – Improvement on stripe OAuth refresh l 5.0.1
Security history
via Wordfence IntelligenceAll 6 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (5.1.1). Sites still on an older version should update.
- Patched Medium · 5.3 Payment Gateway of Stripe for WooCommerce <= 5.0.8 - Unauthenticated Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature via woocommerce_api_wt_stripe Webhook Endpoint ↗2026-09-18 CVE-2026-9832 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affects <= 5.0.8 Patched in 5.0.9
- Patched Critical · 9.8 Stripe Payment Plugin for WooCommerce <= 3.7.9 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection ↗2024-01-18 CVE-2024-0705 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command Affects <= 3.7.9 Patched in 3.8.0
- 2023-08-01 CVE-2023-3162 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Affects <= 3.7.7 Patched in 3.7.8
- Patched Medium · 6.1 Stripe Payment Plugin for WooCommerce <= 3.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗2021-06-07 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.5.9 Patched in 3.6.0
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.
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 6 languages, 0 at 90% or more
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.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
7 of 8 pass · checked 4 Nov 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Integrate Stripe Payment Gateway in WooCommerce and accept cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Klarna, Alipay, an..."
- ✓ 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 Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Stripe.
- ✓ Headings and lists 32 headings and 8 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 10,590 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
- 2026-09-22 8K+ → 7K+ down after 189 days in tier
- 2026-03-17 9K+ → 8K+ down after 64 days in tier
- 2026-01-12 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1394 days in tier
- 2022-03-20 9K+ → 10K+ up after 233 days in tier
- 2021-07-30 10K+ → 9K+ down after 191 days in tier
- 2021-01-20 9K+ → 10K+ up after 84 days in tier
- 2020-10-28 5K+ → 9K+ up after 325 days in tier
- 2019-12-08 4K+ → 5K+ up after 202 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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WooPayments: Integrated WooCommerce Payments 800K+ installs · 3.5★ · 3 shared tags B -
Payment Plugins for Stripe WooCommerce 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A -
Trust Payments Gateway for WooCommerce 400+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags -
Sola Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 300+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B -
tatrapay+ Payment Gateway 200+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags - P Payment Gateway for PayPal Pro on WooCommerce 90+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
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