Instant Bank Payments via GoCardless for WooCommerce
by Adam Kent · eCommerce
Take instant bank payments on your WooCommerce store through open banking technology. Increase your conversions, reduce fees, reduce failed payments a …
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Health
D 49/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈150 estimated
Momentum
+12%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: “instant bank pay” and “open banking” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
49 health vs 71 average across 9,845 eCommerce plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.4%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 4.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,181 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other eCommerce plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
36/100Maintenance 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.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.4.14.
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.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 988 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.4.14; the current branch is 7.1
4.5★ over 2 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.1★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 988 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| go cardless your tag | #3 | #2 | 0 |
| gocardless your tag | #8 | #8 | down 2 |
| instant bank pay your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| open banking your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| woocommerce your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “instant bank pay” and “open banking” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,491 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 258 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
2.7y ago
latest release · v1.3.2 · 20 Feb 2024
10
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 “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
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.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ cantraig3.6y ago
This worked at first and I was very impressed, okay I did get an occasional error, Then I took it out of testing and went live a customer tried to pay at 11pm and my website encountered a fatal error. My host investigated and told me it was this plugin that caused the fatal error. Once it was deactivated the site came back online. During this I lost all access to my WooCommerce plugin. My host were very quick to blame this plugin. Since leaving a not so great review, @Kedament was extremely helpful in aiding me to get everything right. Very quick and very helpful. They are just testing this plug in with the PHP 8 which they have said isn’t clear on the plug-in page. At first I was quite annoyed however the helpfulness of @kedament has reassured me and I will reactivate the plug in once they have confirmed capability with version 8. This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by cantraig. This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by cantraig.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ dannyvince4.3y ago
Lovely little plugin to connect GoCardless to Woocommerce, it works exactly as described! This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by dannyvince.
Read on wp.org ↗
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
4 of 8 pass · checked 4 Nov 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 5 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 5 of 5 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 950 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "go cardless" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-10-04 200+ → 100+ down after 173 days in tier
- 2025-04-14 300+ → 200+ down after 342 days in tier
- 2024-05-07 200+ → 300+ up after 151 days in tier
- 2023-12-08 100+ → 200+ up after 207 days in tier
- 2023-05-15 90+ → 100+ up after 15 days in tier
- 2023-04-30 80+ → 90+ up after 32 days in tier
- 2023-03-29 70+ → 80+ up after 15 days in tier
- 2023-03-14 60+ → 70+ up after 11 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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GoCardless for WooCommerce 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag A -
Fena Payment Gateway for WooCommerce 400+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B -
WALL ID Pay By Bank 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B - G GoCardless WordPress plugin 30+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag
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Wonderful Payments – Pay by Bank and Open Banking for Woo (UK) 30+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B -
ECOMMPAY Payments 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/wc-gocardless-instant-bank-payments" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Instant Bank Payments via GoCardless for WooCommerce — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Instant Bank Payments via GoCardless for WooCommerce: 100+ active installs, 4.5★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-04. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wc-gocardless-instant-bank-payments
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