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China Payments Plugin | Accept WeChat Pay, Alipay & UnionPay | Chinese Checkout Optimization

by Brandon Ernst · Payments

Also makes 6 other plugins · 10.6K+ installs across the portfolio →

Free audit wp.org ↗

Accept WeChat Pay, Alipay & UnionPay via Stripe with WooCommerce, MemberPress, LifterLMS & Simple Membership.

How scoring works →
89 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 90/100
Support 70/100

89 health vs 65 average across 1,092 Payments plugins

200+

Active installs

≈270 estimated

22.9K

Total downloads

since 2019

4.54★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 17 reviews

+28%

399

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

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.

94 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 75/100
Listing tuning 100/100

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+28% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

399

now · peak 1.2K

39930d downloads · Aug 26

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

China Payments Plugi · #11899 you Yedpay for WooCommer · #10929 Payment Gateway for · #16730 AlphaPay for WeChat · #18998

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

5Stars · Aug 26

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.

2Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
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.

11

releases in the last 12 months

2mo ago

latest release · v3.5.9

52

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.5.9 · 2mo ago3.5.8 · 2mo ago3.5.7 · 2mo ago3.5.6 · 3mo ago3.5.5 · 3mo ago3.5.4 · 3mo ago3.5.3 · 3mo ago3.5.2 · 3mo ago3.5.1 · 5mo ago3.5.0 · 6mo ago3.4.2 · 9mo ago3.4.1 · 1.4y ago3.4.0 · 1.9y ago3.3.9 · 1.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v3.5 55%
v3.4 41%
v3.3 4.2%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈270

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2021-08-01 · 1,387 observations

200Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 17 reviews

Read on wp.org ↗
5★
17 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
3.6.0
Last updated
11d ago
Added
2019-03-05 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
5.1
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
7.4
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

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

✓ 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 16 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Danish 89%
Dutch 89%
French (Belgium) 89%
French (France) 89%
German 89%
German (Formal) 89%
Italian 89%
Japanese 89%
Portuguese (Portugal) 89%
Spanish (Chile) 89%
Spanish (Spain) 89%
Swedish 89%
Chinese (China) 84%
Dutch (Formal) 59%
Ukrainian 36%
Spanish (Argentina) 5%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-24 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-23 200+ → 300+ up after 10 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-13 300+ → 200+ down after 149 days in tier
  4. 2026-01-15 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-14 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-01-13 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-01-12 300+ → 400+ up after 5 days in tier
  8. 2026-01-07 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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