PayPal Enterprise Payments (formerly Braintree) for WooCommerce

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 41% 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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1. ★★★★★ elkrat

   6mo ago

   I’ve never even really thought about this plugin, which is exactly what you want. And when I had a question about carding attacks, their support team was very responsive and had good ideas that helped me out.

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2. ★★★★★ Zade

   2.1y ago

   Three years ago, @patrickhs reported that this plugin has “non-existent fraud protection”, and apparently this hasn’t changed. I manage over 100 WordPress sites, and only three of them get hit with velocity attacks, where scammers will use your site to test stolen credit cards, generating hundreds of failed orders (last attack was over 5,000 attempts). I spent countless hours trying various anti-spam plugins and writing various scripts, until I finally discovered a pattern: These are the only sites using Braintree for WooCommerce Payment Gateway. Clearly this plugin suffers from an unpatched vulnerability because somehow a Guest user had five charges approved for the same order, all different card numbers, preceded by hundreds of failed attempts (each attempt generating an order note, about one second apart). Another order showed a failed attempt after the successful payment. That’s not how WooCommerce works, especially when your Checkout page has a reCAPTCHA. You can’t pass reCAPTCHAs that quickly, and you can’t (successfully) pay for the same order twice; that’d be a new order. So essentially this plugin is an invitation for hackers to bypass the Checkout interface and make order attempts programmatically. Also, the latest update (3.1.7) destroys the credit card field styling (and, in turn, customers’ trust). I’m glad I noticed that right away. Combining that with the fact that I reported a bug (“sv-wc-payment-gateway-payment-form.min.css.map error”) over a year ago that could be resolved by adding a single space to a file—and they still haven’t fixed it—I no longer trust Braintree and have begun switching everyone to WooPayments. First impressions of WooPayments are great, setup is a breeze, and my Checkout pages are now more user-friendly in multiple ways.

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3. ★★★★★ Josh

   2.6y ago

   The plugin seems fine. Support–especially here on wordpress.org–can be pretty terrible. This rating is for plugin support.

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4. ★★★★★ George

   3.0y ago

   The plugin still uses the Godaddy Plugin Framework and ends up throwing deprecated warnings on subscription renewals. We’ve raised a bug on the support forums regarding a deprecated warning, which they closed as “resolved” to make their stats look good and via woocommerce.com (where you can’t see the number of open tickets) and this is still pending 3 months later and “At this time, there is no ETA for the fix.”. Furthermore, contrary to the Stripe plugin, they keep this in a private repo, so we can’t send a PR either, so we have to rely solely on their goodwill to resolve this 10-minute bug. There’s no reason to keep a free plugin in a private repo… p.s. to the support moderator who rejected my previous review saying “I have removed your review. Please do not use the review section for support.”. Your comment is completely invalid. This IS a REVIEW and NOT a support request – I’ve already requested support via the appropriate channels. Here, I am REVIEWING the support we receive from this plugin and the way the dev team of this plugin handles bug requests. I get that nobody likes negative reviews, but others have the right to read genuine reviews and decide accordingly before deciding which plugin to use. This REWIEW is within the guidelines and there’s no genuine reason for removal. This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by George.

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5. ★★★★★ yfirvida

   3.5y ago

   The plugin is very easy to use, and they have a great support team.

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6. ★★★★★ thetonto

   4.2y ago

   Braintree claims to be available in Australia but there is no way to setup an account nor does the sales team respond. Just not interested in getting new customers.

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7. ★★★★★ nitsa100

   4.4y ago

   Put $100k plus through their parent company, PayPal, but can I get a simple response to a tech request, as if. It’s been a whole day of support going “hit email response 79, 48, 86” whatever, just don’t answer the question. Steer clear. This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by nitsa100. Reason: Star rating

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8. ★★★★★ Marvin

   4.5y ago

   After new update it stops working on the front end. The issue was related to the compatibility with server and the new update. I’m giving only 4 stars as the customer service just left me to resolve it on my own. This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Marvin. This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Marvin.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2026-08-05 Version 3.11.1 Fix – Credit Card 3DS no longer triggers with validation errors on the block checkout page. Fix – Prevent a warning on the block checkout caused by the classic Fastlane script loading when it shouldn’t. Fix – Warn mercha 3.11.1
2. 2026-06-15 Version 3.11.0 Update – Rebrand the plugin title and related display surfaces from “Braintree” to “PayPal Enterprise Payments”. Tweak – Improved error messages for local payment methods. Tweak – Improve the UI for test-mode payment met 3.11.0
3. 2026-04-22 Version 3.10.0 Add – Introduce wc_braintree_get_remote_configuration filter to allow merchants to provide hardcoded remote configurations and improve performance with gateway configuration caching. Fix – Apple Pay and Google Pay button 3.10.0
4. 2026-03-30 Version 3.9.0 Add – EPS local payment gateway Add – iDEAL local payment gateway. Add – P24 local payment method gateway. Add – Bancontact local payment gateway. Add – BLIK local payment method gateway. Add – MyBank local payment gatew 3.9.0
5. 2026-03-03 Version 3.8.0 Add – Make ACH gateway generally accessible. Add – Make Fastlane generally available without requiring the early access toggle. Add – Support for ACH in blocks checkout. Add – Fastlane support to blocks checkout. Add – S 3.8.0
6. 2026-02-02 Version 3.7.0 Add – Make Venmo gateway generally available. Add – PayPal Fastlane integration for accelerated checkout on shortcode checkout pages. Add – Introduce a checkbox to enable Fastlane Early Access Payment method. Add – Email 3.7.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 4 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2024-04-15 20K+ → 10K+ down after 548 days in tier
2. 2022-10-15 30K+ → 20K+ down

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 PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.9★ · 4 shared tags B
• Mollie Payments for WooCommerce 100K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• SumUp Payment Gateway For WooCommerce 10K+ installs · 2.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ installs · 3.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce 100K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A
• Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce 100K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags A

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PayPal Enterprise Payments (formerly Braintree) for WooCommerce: 10K+ active installs, 2.6★ (50 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/woocommerce-gateway-paypal-powered-by-braintree