WooCommerce Stripe Gateway

Item: WooCommerce Stripe Gateway
Rating: 4.4
Author: Fast WordPress

by WooCommerce

The official Stripe gateway with cards, wallets and local payment methods for WooCommerce.

4.54,823 WordPress.org reviewsPaymentsFree

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What WooCommerce Stripe Gateway does

The official Stripe gateway with cards, wallets and local payment methods for WooCommerce.

It sits in the payments part of a WordPress stack and is sold by WooCommerce on a free basis. We recommend it in our payments guides because it does that one job well without asking you to rebuild the rest of the site around it.

Every plugin adds work to a page request, so treat this as a decision with a cost. Record a speed test before you install it and run the same test afterwards, on the same page, so you know exactly what it charged you.

Real user ratings

Score

4.5/5

Reviews

4,823

Active installs

7,000,000+

Downloads

461.6M

Latest version

11.1.0

Last updated

2026-09-03

These figures come straight from the public WordPress.org plugin directory API for version 11.1.0, not from us. Check them yourself on the WordPress.org listing. Our own editorial score is 4.4/5.

Where WooCommerce Stripe Gateway ranks elsewhere

WooCommerce Stripe Gateway does not appear in the published "best of" lists we track from WPBeginner, TechRadar, Kinsta, Themeisle and similar sites. That is not a mark against it - those roundups are short and skew towards the biggest names.

What changed in the latest version

v11.1.0Latest release2026-09-03

Fix - Activity Panel counts endpoint now respects an explicitly-empty actionable order statuses setting instead of falling back to the defaults, so a cleared setting reports zero orders to fulfill. #66483
Fix - Add aria-label to Product Gallery Thumbnails #67303
Fix - Add a visible validation message for the checkout terms and conditions checkbox. #66449
Fix - Add explicit sale date fields to product Quick Edit and save schedules consistently with the full product editor. #66931
Fix - Align the Core Breadcrumbs block output with WooCommerce Store Breadcrumbs on shop, product, account, archive, and custom taxonomy pages. #66382
Fix - Align the Payments settings partner recommendations with the partnership tracking sheet: add Mayotte, add PayPal to Guyana, add Airwallex to Malaysia and South Korea, make MONEI the preferred provider in Andorra, and place Paytrail...
Fix - Allow customers to save account details when an unchanged display name is already an email address. #66645
Fix - Allow null parent names in REST API order line items. #66636

Release notes are the developer's own words, published on WordPress.org. Read the full changelog

Pros and cons

Apple Pay and Google Pay included
Free with no licence to renew
Actively maintained and used on production sites we test

Stripe account approval required
Support is community-led rather than guaranteed

How to use it

1Install on a staging copy first if the site takes money.
2Work through the setup wizard and connect any external accounts it needs.
3Configure the one feature you installed it for, and leave the rest off.
4Test the result as a logged-out visitor on both mobile and desktop.
5Re-run our speed test to confirm the plugin has not cost you load time.

How it compares

Other payments plugins we recommend, with their rating and pricing model.

Plugin	Our rating	WordPress.org	Pricing	Best for
WooCommerce Stripe Gateway	4.4	4.5 (4,823)	Free	Apple Pay and Google Pay included
PayPal Payments	4.2	n/a	Free	Buyer trust and wallet checkout
WooPayments	4.2	3.4 (169)	Free	Payments managed inside WordPress
WP Simple Pay	4.7	n/a	Freemium	Payments without WooCommerce