Stripe Tax – Sales tax automation for WooCommerce

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 68% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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At the current install trend, crossing 40K+ in roughly 121 days.

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1. ★★★★★ valterb

   5mo ago

   A terrible plugin, at least for sales in Italy. It kept giving me an error message about unpaid taxes whenever I made a purchase on the site, preventing me from proceeding. What’s more, I was charged small amounts – even if only a few cents or tens of cents – for every action taken on the site, even when no one was making a purchase. That doesn’t seem quite right to me.

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2. ★★★★★ 3yq9nfgnvh

   6mo ago

   Whatever it’s doing in the backend causes my site to slow down drastically. Checkout takes 5+ seconds to load. Disabling the plugin and the checkout loads almost instantly. The settings page in the admin is also completely busted. Just not a good plugin which is a bummer as I am a huge fan of Stripe normally. This topic was modified 4 months, 1 week ago by 3yq9nfgnvh.

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3. ★★★★★ eekbah

   6mo ago

   Stripe Tax had been working fine and it’s my fault for having auto updates on but it had not been an issue until now. When the new version released it seem to create some type of conflict with my shipping plugin(Canada Post Shipping for WooCommerce). Customers were seeing FREE on the shipping cost in the total calculations even though we do not offer free shipping and they had to click on a paid option. It not only showed free shipping but did not charge the tax on the tax eligible shipping. The first time since my store opened I have had to refund customers and cancel orders because they thought we were trying to deceive them with the hidden shipping fees. For now it is working again with 1.2.4 but as taxes evolve I can’t stay on an outdated version.

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-05-30 20K+ → 30K+ up after 244 days in tier
2. 2025-09-28 10K+ → 20K+ up after 184 days in tier
3. 2025-03-28 9K+ → 10K+ up after 16 days in tier
4. 2025-03-12 8K+ → 9K+ up after 13 days in tier
5. 2025-02-27 7K+ → 8K+ up after 15 days in tier
6. 2025-02-12 6K+ → 7K+ up after 12 days in tier
7. 2025-01-31 5K+ → 6K+ up after 13 days in tier
8. 2025-01-18 4K+ → 5K+ up after 12 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).

• WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ installs · 3.1★ · 1 shared tag B
• WooCommerce Tax (formerly WooCommerce Shipping & Tax) 500K+ installs · 2.2★ · 1 shared tag C
• Payment Plugins for Stripe WooCommerce 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• SureCart – Ecommerce Made Easy For Selling Physical Products, Digital Downloads, Subscriptions, Donations, & Payments 80K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• WooCommerce Shipping 70K+ installs · 2.8★ · 1 shared tag B
• Printful Integration for WooCommerce 50K+ installs · 2.7★ · 1 shared tag C

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Stripe Tax – Sales tax automation for WooCommerce: 30K+ active installs, 2.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/stripe-tax-for-woocommerce