Sublium Subscriptions – Subscriptions for WooCommerce – Recurring Payments, Subscription Plans & Installments
by Sublium · Payments
Subscriptions for WooCommerce - recurring payments, installment plans, subscribe & save, plus subscription retention tools to reduce churn.
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Health
A 87/100
no flags
Active installs
700+
≈710 estimated
Momentum
+19%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: Swap “woocommerce checkout”, “woocommerce subscriptions” and “recurring payments” for “plans”, “retention” and “subscriptions”. “woocommerce checkout” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “plans” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “woocommerce subscriptions” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #20. “retention” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “recurring payments” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #16. “subscriptions” sits at #11 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
87 health vs 68 average across 1,690 Payments plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →20%
of downloads still active
At least 700 of 3.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Payments plugin keeps 1.0%, across 1,042 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Payments plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 2 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 112 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8; the current branch is 7.1
5.0★ over 11 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.3★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
39
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
23%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| installments your tag | #3 | #6 | down 1 |
| installment | #3 | #5 | 0 |
| churn | #3 | #6 | 0 |
| plans | #9 | #19 | 0 |
| subscriptions | #11 | #19 | up 3 |
| retention | #9 | #20 | up 2 |
| recurring payments your tag | #16 | #20 | down 3 |
| woocommerce subscriptions your tag | #20 | #20 | 0 |
| subscribe and save | #7 | #16 | up 1 |
| recurring | #21 | #23 | down 6 |
| subscription | #24 | #21 | down 1 |
| installment payments | #8 | #14 | 0 |
| woocommerce recurring campaigns | #15 | #23 | 0 |
| woocommerce subscriptions export | #19 | #23 | down 2 |
| subscribe & save your tag | Not checked yet | ||
| woocommerce checkout your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
93 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 14 listed. 79 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “woocommerce checkout”, “woocommerce subscriptions” and “recurring payments” for “plans”, “retention” and “subscriptions”. “woocommerce checkout” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “plans” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “woocommerce subscriptions” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #20. “retention” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “recurring payments” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #16. “subscriptions” sits at #11 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- One page off on “recurring payments”. #16 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 24 Dec 2025 · 315 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 749 · peaks are release surges
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
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
2
releases in the last 12 months
4mo ago
latest release · v1.0.1 · 14 Jul 2026
2
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “700+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 22 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 700.
At the current install trend, crossing 800+ in roughly 33 days.
Install history since 23 Dec 2025
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Excel For Freelancers5mo ago
This is another great addition by the FunnelKit Company. Daman is always available to help get features added and the team is amazing. Love the product and we are already increasing our sales and reducing churn with the great Sublium plugin. Very well done and thanks so much
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ eddygbarrett5mo ago
The plugin is fantastic, everything i need for subscriptions and these guys do support better than any other company i’ve ever worked with. Can’t recommend more highly.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ fightsmarttrav6mo ago
This plugin is fantastic. It’s a fraction of the cost of the other subscription payment plugins and it has every single feature that I could possibly need. It also has one of the absolute best support and development teams that I have ever encountered in a wordpress plugin. I have sent in a few integration requests and the team built them overnight and implemented them for me. It’s completely unheard of. I have tried every subscription plugin… for some I have waited a week for support when things broke. I’m so appreciative of Sublium and the team behind it that I upgraded to a package that I don’t even need. This thing is awesome… it’s saving me money while making me money. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
7 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ✓ Has a FAQ 18 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 18 of 18 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("built for", "for woocommerce stores", "use cases").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Stripe, PayPal, WPML and 3 more.
- ✓ Headings and lists 61 headings and 24 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 13,818 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "subscribe & save", "WooCommerce checkout" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-12 600+ → 700+ up after 63 days in tier
- 2026-08-10 500+ → 600+ up after 23 days in tier
- 2026-07-18 400+ → 500+ up after 32 days in tier
- 2026-06-16 300+ → 400+ up after 22 days in tier
- 2026-05-25 200+ → 300+ up after 15 days in tier
- 2026-05-10 100+ → 200+ up after 13 days in tier
- 2026-04-27 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-04-25 80+ → 90+ up after 1 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).
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Recurio – Ultimate Subscription for WooCommerce 2K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Subscriptions for WooCommerce with Stripe Recurring Payments 1K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Appalify Subscriptions for WooCommerce 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
Doctor Subs — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
ReordeRe Lite – Subscriptions For WooCommerce — installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
Megurio Subscriptions for WooCommerce — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
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