Payway Custom Payment Gateway

by payway · eCommerce

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

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51 Health · D

Maintenance 24/100

Rating quality 69/100

Support 70/100

51 health vs 71 average across 2,479 eCommerce plugins

100+

Active installs

≈140 estimated

2.3K

Total downloads

since 2023

3.77★

Rating (adjusted)

3.0★ raw · 2 reviews

-29%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

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

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How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

66 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 34/100

WP compatibility 88/100

Rating quality 51/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 746 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 · 1,130 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-29% vs prior 30d

Jun 23

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 131

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 WooCommerce PayPal P · #80 WooCommerce Stripe P · #83 WooCommerce Legacy R · #143

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

100–200 ≈140

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

At the current install trend, crossing 200+ in roughly 1501 days.

Install history · since 2023-06-12 · 1,130 observations

Ratings · 2 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0.3
Last updated: 2.0y ago
Added: 2023-06-11 · 3 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 6.0
Tested up to: 6.6.5
Requires PHP: 7.2

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Growth timeline

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

2026-05-01 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in band
2026-04-30 100+ → 90+ down after 14 days in band
2026-04-16 90+ → 100+ up after 17 days in band
2026-03-30 100+ → 90+ down after 6 days in band
2026-03-24 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in band
2026-03-23 100+ → 90+ down after 4 days in band
2026-03-19 90+ → 100+ up after 4 days in band
2026-03-15 100+ → 90+ down after 14 days in band

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