Sprout Invoices – Client Invoicing & Estimates

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74 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 15 listed. 59 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 84% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 13 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ hoofprintmedia

   5mo ago

   Stripe payment gateway is broken and support is completely non-existent now, even for paid subscribers. They ignored all of our support tickets and emails, and when we finally got a hold of someone at their paren InMotion Hosting account, they gave us a 2 hour runaround—claiming they or we couldn’t contact Sprout Invoices’s team directly and later that we needed a specific InMotion hosting account just to get help for a plugin we already paid for! Even months later, we have no technical resolution and no refund. If you value your time and money, steer clear. They’ve completely abandoned their integrity and customers.

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2. ★★★★★ pondsoup

   8mo ago

   I have been trying to get support with this plugin (which will currently not allow me to accept payments) for over a week now to no avail. This is not the first time this has happened, usually support will eventually address the issue but in this case, nothing, so you get a bad review.

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3. ★★★★★ kelshaer

   9mo ago

   I paid for the Pro license. Their support is among the worst that I’ve ever seen. They never respond to any of the tickets.

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4. ★★★★★ rubberduckyint

   1.2y ago

   Bought the plugin, installed it and it had issues. Contacted support multiple times, never got a reply. requested refund multiple times no response. Disputing through paypal now.DO NOT recommend.

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5. ★★★★★ peptidesolutions

   1.4y ago

   Broken app and support is non existent. Responses to troubleshooting take over a week to respond so that they drag you out past the 30 days and won’t offer a refund. The app crashed the hosting server, and is full of coding bugs. Stay away and save your money.

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6. ★★★★★ phil84vaive

   2.1y ago

   The software itself is decent, but has a few annoying glitches (like checking off the “gst” checkbox doesn’t always turn it off, I have to click the “save” button twice to do anything, stuff like that), but I would have given four stars if it weren’t for how SLOW it is. It takes several minutes to save, and while I am saving it seems to take up every thread of memory my website has. I can’t do ANYTHING else while waiting for these invoices to save. Opening a PDF? Takes like 2 minutes. It’s a real pain in the butt, and interrupts my work flow quite a bit editing after a year and a half – this is not good software. I’m sorry, but the glitches keep piling up and the previously mentioned issues have not been resolved. Recurring invoices don’t reoccur on the correct dates, and may go months without re-occurring, until suddenly you have 5 of the same invoice being created in a single day. Reminders don’t go out when they are supposed to, and I constantly have to manually do work that is supposed to be automated. It also doesn’t create invoice titles with any regularity either. Very unprofessional plugin. I’ll be removing it shortly and cancelling my paid subscription. I’m really disappointed in this. This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by phil84vaive.

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7. ★★★★★ rayvictorell

   2.3y ago

   I first would like to thank support for being spontaneous to supporting their customers even the free ones. I had the privledge to work with other online invoice systems and very few are able to do what Sprout Invoices can do. The feature that I enjoy is the ability to send my clients a text message for them to review agreement and make payments.

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8. ★★★★★ kasnola

   2.5y ago

   I AM EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS SOFTWARE. TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY THEY BILLED ME AFTER I CANCELLED. STAY AWAY FROM THIS SOFTWARE! I paid to use it for years and ignored the many bugs, but recently they did an “update” and I could no longer process payments. After days of tech support and not being able to accept payments, when I got it to work, they did another update and once again I was no longer able to accept payments.  When you create an invoice, the default state is paid, so if you save without going thru the step of marking it unpaid, it will save as paid and then you have to delete it and start over > highly aggravating. If you export your data, the import format is completely different from the export file, so it is complicated to move information without understanding SQL.  STAY AWAY FROM THIS SOFTWARE!!! I have a whole list of bugs. You don’t want all of these hassles when it comes to handling your money. After months of trying to get help, on 6/14/24 they told me that the latest update fixed the problems, but all of the new bugs were still there. It seems they keep rolling out buggy updates without beta testing first. This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by kasnola. This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by kasnola. This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by kasnola.

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All 13 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (20.8.19). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 5.3 Sprout Invoices – Client Invoicing & Estimates <= 20.8.17 - Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference ↗
   2026-09-24 CVE-2026-97078 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects <= 20.8.17 Patched in 20.8.18
2. Patched Medium · 4.3 Sprout Invoices – Client Invoicing & Estimates < 20.8.16 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference ↗
   2026-09-12 CVE-2026-87797 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects < 20.8.16 Patched in 20.8.16
3. Patched Medium · 4.3 Sprout Invoices – Client Invoicing & Estimates <= 20.8.13 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2026-07-08 CVE-2026-57418 Missing Authorization Affects <= 20.8.13 Patched in 20.8.14
4. Patched Medium · 5.3 Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices <= 20.8.10 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2026-03-19 CVE-2026-39562 Missing Authorization Affects <= 20.8.10 Patched in 20.8.11
5. Patched High · 7.5 Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices <= 20.8.9 - Authenticated (Author+) Local File Inclusion ↗
   2026-02-21 CVE-2026-32401 Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program Affects <= 20.8.9 Patched in 20.8.10
6. Patched Medium · 5.3 Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices <= 20.8.8 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2026-02-15 CVE-2026-25364 Missing Authorization Affects <= 20.8.8 Patched in 20.8.9
7. Patched Medium · 4.3 Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices <= 20.8.7 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2025-10-24 CVE-2025-64229 Missing Authorization Affects <= 20.8.7 Patched in 20.8.8
8. Patched High · 8.1 Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices <= 20.8.7 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection ↗
   2025-09-02 CVE-2025-64227 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affects <= 20.8.7 Patched in 20.8.8
9. Patched Medium · 5.0 Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices – Easy Estimates and Invoices <= 20.8.1 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2024-12-22 CVE-2025-24606 Missing Authorization Affects <= 20.8.1 Patched in 20.8.2
10. Patched Medium · 5.3 Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices <= 20.8.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference ↗
    2024-12-02 CVE-2024-53819 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects <= 20.8.0 Patched in 20.8.1
11. Patched Medium · 4.3 Sprout Invoices <= 20.5.3 - Sensitive Information Exposure ↗
    2023-11-13 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affects < 20.5.4 Patched in 20.5.4
12. Patched Medium · 4.8 Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices <= 19.9.6 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
    2021-10-18 CVE-2021-24787 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects < 19.9.7 Patched in 19.9.7
13. Patched High · 7.3 Client Invoicing by Sprout Invoices – Easy Estimates and Invoices for WordPress <= 9.3 - Missing Authorization ↗
    2016-02-09 Missing Authorization Affects <= 9.3 Patched in 9.4

Translated into 126 languages, 1 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-10-12 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-10-11 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2025-10-08 2K+ → 1K+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2025-10-06 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2025-10-05 2K+ → 1K+ down after 48 days in tier
6. 2025-08-18 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-08-17 2K+ → 1K+ down after 8 days in tier
8. 2025-08-09 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier

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Sprout Invoices – Client Invoicing & Estimates: 1K+ active installs, 4.4★ (191 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/sprout-invoices