Eway Payments for Woo

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43 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 3 listed. 40 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Crossed into this band 9 months ago; the previous band took 14 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ inspired888

   2.9y ago

   Since switching to eWay via this plug-in, we’ve had numerous customers complain about not being able to make payment. It’s not affecting everyone, as orders are still rolling in from other customers. The plug-in causes a number of errors that show up in the server error logs. What’s worse, is after disabling the plug-in I can’t for the life of me get it to stop loading its assets on the checkout. Have disabled Cloudflare caching, cleared server level caching, cleared WordPress level caching (all 15 plus times), and it still loads its assets during checkout. Not something I’ve ever come across before. It’s seems impossible to get this plug-in to go away. Next I’ll have to delete it, to see if it then stops affecting our checkout. Very odd. I prefer the eWay implementation from WebAware. However, we could use that as it was supported by a checkout plugin we use (FunnelKit), so we had to switch to this buggy eWay plugin. Now looking at dropping eWay entirely due to the issues with this plugin.

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2. ★★★★★ robadeedoo123

   3.2y ago

   We previously used the non native eway plugin by webaware. Worked fine. Moved to this one and it started putting payments through as recurring subscription payments. We do not offer recurring sub payments never have, have no software on our website to do with this and never will. eway said to ask woo commerce. Woo commerce took no liability and told us to disconnect all the plugins move to storefront theme etc and trouble shoot despite the non native plugin working perfectly. Every time woocommerce gets involved with a payment gateway plugin it does not work properly. Stripe is problematic, woocommerce paypal is problematic. Which is why from now on I will never use any of them.

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3. ★★★★★ chrissk

   3.6y ago

   A great plugin that works seamlessly for me. Support is prompt and helpful

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4. ★★★★★ timt007

   5.4y ago

   When customers are checking out NOW it tells the customer the Card Expiry Date entered is incorrect , Eways know about it and WordPress has not responded or done anything up update or fix this issue

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5. ★★★★★ slightlychilled

   7.2y ago

   I’ve been emailing WooCommerce about this bug for about 6 months. Big shame on WooCommerce for not taking care of this issue. Despite several update releases from them, it is still yet to be fixed, so here is the bug and the fix. When using with a multi-currency site, you will get problems with payments and the amounts charged. To fix it: /plugins/woocommerce-gateway-eway/includes/class-wc-eway-api.php on line 203. This: ‘CurrencyCode’ => get_woocommerce_currency(), Should be this: ‘CurrencyCode’ => $pre_wc_30 ? $order->get_order_currency() : $order->get_currency(),

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2026-10-06 Version 4.0.0 Dev – Implement digital wallets (Apple Pay / Google Pay) Dev – Bump version to 4.0.0 Fix – Fix reported issues Update – Apply readme changes 4.0.0
2. 2026-08-13 Version 3.9.3 Fix – Fix vulnerability report 3.9.3
3. 2025-10-10 Version 3.9.2 Fix – Fix issue for RSP error when using saved cards Dev – Bump version to 3.9.2 3.9.2
4. 2025-10-10 Version 3.9.1 Fix – Revert back redirect to RSP Dev – Bump version to 3.9.1 3.9.1
5. 2025-10-09 Version 3.9.0 Dev – Bump version to 3.9.0 Dev – 3D Secure set to disabled by default on fresh install Fix – Saved cards being duplicated Fix – Validation error message display in card fields Deprecation – Remove fallback option transp 3.9.0
6. 2025-01-30 Version 3.8.0 Dev – bump to version 3.8.0 Dev – recreate tag 3.8.0 3.8.0

The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (4.0.0). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 5.4 WooCommerce Eway Gateway <= 3.5.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference ↗
   2023-01-04 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects <= 3.5.0 Patched in 3.5.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.9

Translated into 4 languages, 1 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-01-29 4K+ → 3K+ down after 417 days in tier
2. 2024-12-08 5K+ → 4K+ down after 4 days in tier
3. 2024-12-04 4K+ → 5K+ up after 2 days in tier
4. 2024-12-02 5K+ → 4K+ down after 309 days in tier
5. 2024-01-28 6K+ → 5K+ down after 375 days in tier
6. 2023-01-18 7K+ → 6K+ down after 382 days in tier
7. 2022-01-01 8K+ → 7K+ down after 302 days in tier
8. 2021-03-05 7K+ → 8K+ up

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Eway Payments for Woo: 3K+ active installs, 3.2★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/woocommerce-gateway-eway