WooCommerce’s role in the payments category
WooCommerce is the most common related tag in Payments, appearing alongside 311 plugins. Several of the category’s most-installed listings are explicitly WooCommerce-focused, including WooCommerce PayPal Payments with 800,000 active installs and WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway with 700,000.
Other high-install names with WooCommerce in their titles include Razorpay for WooCommerce and Mollie Payments for WooCommerce, each with 100,000 active installs.
Payment providers represented among the leading plugins
The leading listings include plugins named for a range of payment providers, with adoption and rating signals that vary.
- WooCommerce PayPal Payments: 800,000 active installs; poor rating with many reviews.
- WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway: 700,000 installs; mixed rating with a moderate number of reviews.
- Razorpay for WooCommerce: 100,000 installs; poor rating with few reviews.
- Mollie Payments for WooCommerce: 100,000 installs; mixed rating with a moderate number of reviews.
- Accept Stripe Payments: 20,000 installs; good rating with a moderate number of reviews.
- Amazon Pay for WooCommerce: 10,000 installs; poor rating with few reviews.
- PhonePe Payment Solutions: 10,000 installs; poor rating with few reviews.
- Other leading names: Montonio for WooCommerce has 10,000 installs and an excellent rating with few reviews; Visa Acceptance Solutions has 10,000 installs and is unrated.
Checkout, card, and cryptocurrency tags
Related tags point to several areas of focus across the Payments category.
- Payment gateway appears alongside 111 plugins, and checkout alongside 109.
- Ecommerce appears with 81 plugins; credit card with 58.
- Bitcoin and Stripe each appear with 39 plugins.
- Cryptocurrency appears with 36 plugins, while crypto appears with 33.
What category size and update figures mean when choosing
Payments is a broad category, but only a small portion of its plugins have high install counts, and maintenance and rating signals are uneven.
There are 573 plugins in the category; 11 have at least 10,000 active installs, while four have 100,000 or more. 67% were updated in the last year, so update recency varies across the full category.
Among leading plugins, several were updated this month, while Razorpay for WooCommerce and PhonePe Payment Solutions were updated one month ago and Accept Stripe Payments two months ago. Ratings range from excellent to poor, with some listings mixed or unrated and review counts also varying.