Pay. Payment Methods for WooCommerce
by Webshop Pay · Uncategorized
This plugin adds the Pay. Payment Methods to your WooCommerce installation.
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Health
B 82/100
Few reviews
Active installs
3K+
≈3.5K estimated
Momentum
-5%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “ideal” and “pay” for “methods” and “webshop”. “ideal” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #24. “methods” sits at #4 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “pay” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #15. “webshop” sits at #4 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
82 health vs 58 average across 25,753 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.2%
of downloads still active
At least 3K of 248.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized 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 16 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 11 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
3.7★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.08★ 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.
38
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
17%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| paymentmethods your tag | #1 | #2 | 0 |
| betaalmethoden your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| paynl your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| methods | #4 | #17 | 0 |
| payment methods | #5 | #18 | up 1 |
| wechat pay | #4 | #14 | down 1 |
| webshop | #4 | #13 | down 1 |
| pay your tag | #15 | #21 | down 2 |
| payment methods discounts | #8 | #22 | up 1 |
| ideal your tag | #24 | #24 | — |
| pay for post | #9 | #23 | down 2 |
| terminal | #17 | #22 | 0 |
| pay in 3 | #11 | #23 | down 2 |
| alipay | #18 | #20 | up 1 |
| telephone | #20 | #23 | 0 |
| voucher | #21 | #23 | 0 |
| vouchers | #22 | #21 | up 1 |
| multistore | #23 | #23 | 0 |
| woocommerce partial payment | #19 | #24 | 0 |
122 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 19 listed. 103 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Swap “ideal” and “pay” for “methods” and “webshop”. “ideal” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #24. “methods” sits at #4 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “pay” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #15. “webshop” sits at #4 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 “pay”. #15 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 6.6K · 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
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
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
16
releases in the last 12 months
11d ago
latest release · v4.1.1 · 21 Oct 2026
59
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. 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 “3K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 9 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 11 Mar 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ smoke1212mo ago
The most important thing isn’t working: receiving payments. By updating the plugin, I can no longer receive payments. I’ve lost at least a thousand euros.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Soft7912.0y ago
Very neat implementation of the pay.nl payment methods. iDeal, MisterCash, PayPal, Direct transfer, Sofort etc… all work fine and integrate nice into the checkout page. The older version (< 2.2 ?) of this plugin was not in the WordPress.org plugin directory but only available on pay.nl website, but the newer versions are in the directory so we can get automatic update notifications. Nice! 5 stars well deserved for both the plugin as the Pay.nl payment services themself.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ mennobouma12.1y ago
I’m using this plugin for clients and our multisite website and everything works great! Had some small very specific issues but the support of Andy of Pay.nl is very good. I would definitely recommend this plugin to use for your website.
Read on wp.org ↗
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
- — Version 4.0.12 Added option to hash IBAN information Enabled adding a range of IP addresses for test payments Added payment method Energieloket Cadeaukaart 4.0.12
- — Version 4.0.11 Fixed setting locale attribute Allow empty payment method descriptions 4.0.11
- — Version 4.0.10 Added Nationale Golfbon Improved security 4.0.10
- — Version 4.0.9 Refined address passing logic to Pay Added fallback handling for failed image download 4.0.9
- — Version 4.0.8 Added Stadspas Purmerend Fixed description issue for grouped credit cards 4.0.8
- — Version 4.0.7 Added credit card payment method Several under the hood improvements 4.0.7
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 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.
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
5 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 "This plugin adds the Pay. Payment Methods to your WooCommerce installation."
- ✓ 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, PayPal.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 3,916 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("betaalmethoden", "paymentmethods", "paynl" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-24 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-01-23 3K+ → 4K+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-01-19 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-01-18 3K+ → 4K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-01-17 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-01-16 3K+ → 4K+ up after 8 days in tier
- 2026-01-08 4K+ → 3K+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-01-06 3K+ → 4K+ 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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Pronamic Pay 2K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
q-invoice Mollie iDeal for Gravity Forms 30+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D -
q-invoice Sisow iDeal for Gravity Forms 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
Doneren met Mollie 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A -
Mollie Forms 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B -
MultiSafepay plugin for WooCommerce 3K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag A
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