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Payway Custom Payment Gateway

by payway · eCommerce

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With over 35+ year's experience, Payway's payment gateway and merchant services solution is designed to make payment processing easier, whil …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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50 Health · D
Maintenance 22/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 68 average across 5,562 eCommerce plugins

90+

Active installs

≈97 estimated

2.5K

Total downloads

since 2023

3.77★

Rating (adjusted)

3.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+48%

77

Downloads · 30d

category median +18%

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

65 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 31/100
WP compatibility 88/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 791 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2023-06-13 · 1,175 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+48% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

77

now · peak 131

7730d 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

Payway Custom Paymen · #16674 you WooCommerce PayPal P · #81 WooCommerce Stripe P · #85 WooCommerce Legacy R · #144

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3Stars · Aug 26

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.

856per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
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.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.2y ago

latest release · v1.0.3

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.3 · 2.2y 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 “90+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
90–100 ≈97

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

At the current install trend, crossing 100+ in roughly 346 days.

Install history · since 2023-06-12 · 1,133 observations

90Installs · 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.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.0.3
Last updated
2.2y ago
Added
2023-06-11 · 3 yrs old
Requires WP
6.0
Tested up to
6.6.7
Requires PHP
7.2
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ sacki
    2mo ago

    Actualicenló!! Está vulnerable y incompatible a Bloques y React. This topic was modified 2 weeks, 4 days ago by sacki.

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  2. ★★★★★ Kevin Leary
    3.2y ago

    Payway’s gateway is simple to setup, straight forward to use, and works as expected. It’s a good option for simplified payment processing in a worth of over complexity when compared to other providers/options that exist for WooCommerce.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.2

✓ 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. 2026-08-16 100+ → 90+ down after 107 days in tier
  2. 2026-05-01 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-30 100+ → 90+ down after 14 days in tier
  4. 2026-04-16 90+ → 100+ up after 17 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-30 100+ → 90+ down after 6 days in tier
  6. 2026-03-24 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-03-23 100+ → 90+ down after 4 days in tier
  8. 2026-03-19 90+ → 100+ up after 4 days in tier

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