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Stax Payments

by Stax · eCommerce

Take credit card payments on your Wordpress site using Stax Payments.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 16/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 69 average across 3,218 eCommerce plugins

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.

58 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 24/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 918 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-12-08 · 1,317 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-50% vs prior 30d
Dec 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

54

now · peak 174

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

Stax Payments · #24547 GoDaddy Payments for · #4677 Pelecard Gateway · #10109 Checkout.com Payment · #11020

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

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈37

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

Install history · since 2022-12-07 · 1,315 observations

Details

Version
1.0.1
Last updated
2.5y ago
Added
2022-12-06 · 3 yrs on WP
Requires WP
5.2
Tested up to
6.4.8
Requires PHP
7.2

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-01-07 40+ → 30+ down after 19 days in band
  2. 2025-12-19 30+ → 40+ up after 59 days in band
  3. 2025-10-21 40+ → 30+ down after 19 days in band
  4. 2025-10-02 30+ → 40+ up after 9 days in band
  5. 2025-09-23 40+ → 30+ down after 5 days in band
  6. 2025-09-18 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in band
  7. 2025-09-15 40+ → 30+ down after 3 days in band
  8. 2025-09-12 30+ → 40+ up after 10 days in band

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Stax Payments: 30+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/stax-payments