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WooCommerce Accepted Payment Methods

by James Koster · Payments

Also makes 5 other plugins · 16.8K+ installs across the portfolio →

Extends WooCommerce giving you the option to display accepted payment methods via widget, shortcode or template tag.

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Health

D 42/100

Stale · Likely abandoned

Active installs

2K+

≈2.5K estimated

Momentum

+35%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “credit card”, “logo” and “payment” 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.

How scoring works →
42 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 66/100
Support 70/100

42 health vs 68 average across 1,680 Payments plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.2%

of downloads still active

At least 2K of 169.6K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with 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.

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38, well behind 6.8.

Details

Version
0.7.0
Last updated
8.9y ago
Added
2012-11-19 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
4.0.38
Requires PHP
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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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3260 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 3/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.0.38; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 63/100

3.4★ over 12 reviews, smoothed to 3.96★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 92/100

4 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3260 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+35% vs prior 30d
1131 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 714 · peaks are release surges

30931 Oct 2026

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

WooCommerce Accepted · #4576youWooPayments: Integra · #76WooCommerce PayPal P · #82WooCommerce Stripe P · #85

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

4231 Oct 2026

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.

15531 Oct 2026

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

11.9y ago

latest release · v0.7.0 · 9 Dec 2014

8

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.7.0 · 9 Dec 20140.5.0 · 4 Sep 20140.4 · 7 Jun 20130.3 · 30 May 20130.2.2 · 1 Apr 20130.2.1 · 7 Feb 20130.2 · 16 Jan 20130.1 · 26 Nov 2012

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.7 99%
v0.5 0.6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.5K

Crossed into this band 6 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 52% of the way through.

Install history since 24 Nov 2017

2K31 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Filippos Sdr.
    11.3y ago

    Works perfectly on the websites that I am using this plugin.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ banbako
    11.8y ago

    Was perfect. Just the size of the payment options are not equal size. Should be same size. Overall anyways is good. Thank you to the developer.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ loers
    12.1y ago

    It seems I misunderstand the function of this plugin… I thought it displays the accepted payment methods, but it does not! The plugins just extends the WooCommerce payment options with a setting to display payment icons, which the creator thought to be useful, indepedent from your shop settings. So this plugin is only useful if you only accept the follwing payment menthods: American Express, Bitcoin, BTC, Discover, Google, Maestro, MasterCard, MasterCard, PayPal, Visa. Additional Methods have to be requested.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ prashantvarun
    12.2y ago

    really good and easy to use plugin … I have added payment accepted image in my footer of the site anyone can see that on http://www.sugapple.com. just install the plugin and the widget in footer so easy and great but dont forget to choose the setting from woocommerce- checkout tab

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ Bci287
    12.3y ago

    HI would be great if add Amazon and giving option to add more since it keeps on changing payment options

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  6. ★★★★★ stuartbartley
    12.3y ago

    Unfortunately it half works, the images are all cut off (which is a common problem I see on the help forum). i guess it’s theme dependent, but this issue has been going on long enough for it to be resolved. great idea, just doesn’t work very well

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. ★★★★★ jonas.ha
    12.4y ago

    can you add Amazon Payments? https://payments.amazon.com/business/resources?ld=PA#payment-marks-graphics

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  8. ★★★★★ Joe Bloggs
    12.4y ago

    I really like the idea of this plugin, but unfortunately it doesn’t work. Or maybe it does, but doesn’t for me. I think it is very theme dependent. It will either work with your theme or it will not. I went through the support forum and found a few similar cases to mine. Big part of each icon is cut off in my theme. James reckons everything works well in his theme, so that’s why I get the impression that it depends on the theme you have installed if your payment icons will display correctly or not. Either way, I am giving 1 star out of 5. Great idea, but from the forums I believe that James knows that the bug is there for several months now, but I see no intention of fixing it ..

    Read on wp.org ↗

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 0.6.0 New – cash on delivery symbol (Kudos chirag-v) New – Danish translation (props MamaTux) Fix – broken link in widget Tweak – Removed btc 0.6.0
  2. — Version 0.5.0 WooCommerce 2.1 compatibility (now required WooCommerce 2.1). NL translation. Kudos @ramoonus 0.5.0
  3. — Version 0.4 Added Bitcoin & BTC (Kudos piit79) Added Maestro 0.4
  4. — Version 0.3 Added Discover Renamed widget to match WooCommerce core naming convention & added link to configure options Stripped object pass by reference Added en_GB po/mo 0.3
  5. — Version 0.2.2 UI tweak to be inline with 2.0s slightly updated settings API Improved i18n (Kudos deckerweb) Added missing Gettext syntax (Kudos deckerweb) Changed loading call for textdomain (with correct textdomain) (Kudos deckerweb) 0.2.2
  6. — Version 0.2.1 styles correctly hooked into wp_enqueue_scripts(); 0.2.1

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 52 languages, 0 at 90% or more

German 60%
Danish 50%
Japanese 50%
Swedish 50%
Ukrainian 46%
Dutch 36%
English (Australia) 23%
Russian 16%
English (Canada) 13%
French (France) 13%
Portuguese (Brazil) 13%
Romanian 13%
Azerbaijani 10%
English (New Zealand) 10%
English (UK) 10%
French (Canada) 10%
Esperanto 6%
Finnish 6%
German (Formal) 6%
Hebrew 6%
Polish 6%
Punjabi 6%
Spanish (Spain) 6%
Albanian 3%

Plus 28 more locales with partial translations.

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.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

3 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Extends WooCommerce giving you the option to display accepted payment methods via widget, shortcode or temp..."
  • ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions 1 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Installation Instructions").
  • ! 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 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 471 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "credit card", "logo" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-10 3K+ → 2K+ down after 199 days in tier
  2. 2025-10-23 4K+ → 3K+ down after 228 days in tier
  3. 2025-03-09 5K+ → 4K+ down after 167 days in tier
  4. 2024-09-23 6K+ → 5K+ down after 76 days in tier
  5. 2024-07-09 7K+ → 6K+ down after 140 days in tier
  6. 2024-02-20 8K+ → 7K+ down after 100 days in tier
  7. 2023-11-12 9K+ → 8K+ down after 73 days in tier
  8. 2023-08-31 10K+ → 9K+ down after 858 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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