Posts Tagged ‘skadate features’

SkaDate Dating Software Supports Polish and Thai

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

SkaDate Dating Software Supports Thai and PolishOne of the reasons SkaDate Dating Software is considered the leader of the dating solutions market is the international reach the tool provides. Over the course of last twelve months we have added 4 languages to our collection, and this month we are ready to present you with two more.

Thai is one of the most sought-after languages in our lineup, with requests of its introduction piling up each week for several months now. This is a clear indication of the dating industry booming in Asia and Thailand specifically. On the other hand, Polish will continue the tradition of SkaDate gradually covering the entire EU with each new addition.

As online dating business model grows ever more popular around the globe, we are constantly inquired about supplementing SkaDate dating script with new languages.  As always, we are open to new ideas and are now actively considering Middle East as the next destination.

Check out the full list of NINETEEN languages supported by SkaDate as of now, and then see them in action on the Demo page, before placing your order or forwarding any questions to our pre-sales team.

Skadate Dating Software New Feature: CloudFlare Integration

Friday, April 12th, 2013

I’m happy to remind you that a new feature-rich version of SkaDate Dating Software was presented to the public this spring. This release is prominent for enhanced software performance, an overall revamp of the management system with language auto-select and rolling-out slideshow options as well as many other improvements.

One of the most significant SkaDate Dating Software enhancements I want you to look at is CloudFlare integration. This cloud-based service adds extra spam protection, considerably steps-up website load speed by means of distributing the content around the world so it’s closer to site’s users and protects your website from a range of online threats.

A special need in CloudFlare appears if:

  • you host your website on the shared hosting server which is not powerful enough to process information quickly.
  • you are not satisfied with a load speed for various reasons and want to make it faster,
  • your server has downtime problems. CloudFlare provides uninterrupted functioning even during downtime.

To activate this feature on your website, you need to log into your admin account and choose the “Site Caching” button in Configuration section, then switch the tab to CloudFlare and tick the box “Enable Cloudflare”. To enjoy CloudFlare site performance boost and speed acceleration, make sure you already have a fully filled-in account with CloudFlare (www.cloudflare.com). More information on how to properly set up a CloudFlare Account is available for our customers in this User Manual (please, check if you are logged into your customer area).

With CloudFlare integration and other enhancements your website will be better protected from spam and other attacks such as abusive bots and crawlers. The delivery of your site content will be automatically optimized, so your users get the best performance. It will take 5 minutes to integrate CloudFlare, following our instructions. If you do ever consider this feature as unnecessary, you can turn CloudFlare off as easily as you turned it on. Buy a new version of SkaDate Dating Software and enjoy new features and optimized performance and keep following our blog to be informed.

SkaDate Dating Software Features – Integrated Google Map

Monday, April 1st, 2013

Hello everyone! The spring is in full play and SkaDate Dating Software celebrates it with a release of a new version, provided by optimized performance, advanced spam control and other new features. If you you’re still in the “to buy or not to buy” boat, it’s the best time ever to make a decision and get a license right now.

Talking about new features in more details, I would like to pay your attention to the integrated Google Map, introduced in latest SkaDate Dating Software version by popular demand. You can easily find the map on the homepage or add it to your user’s profile by clicking on the “add component” button. It shows users who are currently online with dots on their locations and the distance between them. You may change the map’s look by choosing either street map with/without terrain or satellite imagery with/without street names, you may zoom it in and out as well.

Location-based dating is one of the latest trends and it’s especially popular in gay communities, maybe because women are often unwilling to discover their location and they are rarely go for dates without preliminary data vetting.

According to general statistics, geographical location of the potential partner is the third important factor after profile picture and “about me” section. It’s understandable since the majority of people nowadays are too busy to waste their time on internet chatting with someone they are very unlikely to meet in real life. Even though I guess there are those who are interested solely in online-based relationships. In such cases, Google Map is extremely important as well to make you sure that your virtual partner is far enough from your city.

Google Map may also be useful when you are searching for a last minute date tonight. It increases the possibility to find another single person in your location looking up for the same.

Map is not the only new feature in SkaDate Dating Software latest version; other features will be covered in further blog entries. Or you can buy a licence and check all the admin and user features yourself. Have a successful business with SkaDate and follow the blog news.

New Version of SkaDate Dating Software is Here!

Monday, March 18th, 2013

SkaDate MasterDear friends,

We are very happy to share with you the excellent news about the release of a brand new version of SkaDate Dating Software! Yes, you read that right; after collecting user-feedback and analyzing latest market trends for months, we are finally rolling out the long-awaited next iteration of our acclaimed product. We hope you are just as excited as we are!

Meet SkaDate Master

We went with Master as the moniker, since we believe this version of SkaDate dating script is truly a Master solution to start online dating site or business. To date, this is the most complete SkaDate build we ever released, packing several dozen features under the hood – more than any other solution on the market.

We’ve polished up the software back-end to make it easier to operate, added a few exciting user-requested features to remain an industry trendsetter, and most importantly, we’ve optimized the script performance, making it the fastest SkaDate yet. Let’s look into the new package in more detail.

SkaDate Master Optimization Boost

As market leaders we simply couldn’t overlook such an important factor for running a dating site as software performance. After all, the recent industry boom resulted in fast growth of most dating sites, some boasting thousands and even millions of active users.

SkaDate Master Performance BoostTo make sure all SkaDate-powered sites, both content-heavy and just beginning, operate as smoothly as possible, we have made an extra effort optimizing software requests, which resulted in over 50% performance boost.

On top of that, we have integrated CloudFlare services, which ensure that sites remain online even during downtime, and enjoy additional acceleration in site loading due to implementation of cloud-share technologies.

SkaDate Master Additional Security and Spam Protection

The integration of CloudFlare also allowed us to significantly increase site protection.  We, however, did not stop there and introduced additional tools to counteract the ever-growing number of Spam requests dogging popular websites.

SkaDate Master Site Security

The software now allows site owners to block entire countries based on IP, or enable black list IP blocking system from StopForumSpam – a platform created specifically to collect malicious IPs all across internet, so that individual admins don’t have to spend hours moderating their websites.

SkaDate Master New Major Features

SkaDate Master Google Maps IntegrationWhile we are quite proud about the new Optimization and Site Protection  features, we know the most excitement comes from the shiny new toys we give to site runners and their members. Behold:

  • Google Maps Integration

You can now add additional visual representation of all online members on the site, as well as display distance between given users in the profile view;

  • Google+ Inviter

We have supplemented our present Facebook Inviter with Google+ to make it easier than ever to invite even more friends to join your growing dating sites;

  • Completeness Bar

Give your site users more visual reference when they change their profiles. The components shows how complete the profile is with a percentage value and a graphic gauge;

  • Drag-and-Drop for Navigation and Profile Fields

The work with Navigation and Profile Fields has been made much easier and user-friendly with an intuitive Drag-and-Drop system;

SkaDate Master Drag-and-Drop

  • Slideshow

As requested, this feature gives any site even more visual flare, with a custom slideshow on the Index Page. Just add your pictures and move the component to the appropriate page position;

SkaDate Master Slideshow

  • WYSIWYG Editor for Custom Pages and Blogs

This is another much-requested feature that substantially improves the work with Blogs and Custom Pages by introducing a professional WYSIWYG Editor;

SkaDate Master Blogs

  • Integration of 2checkout.com

We have added another alternative Payment Gateway to our extensive collection, to allow even more business growth opportunities and flexibility for doing eCommerce.

  • Site Structure Overhaul

Understandably, it was becoming easy to get lost within the Admin Area as we continuously added more user-requested features to SkaDate. Fear not, we have rearranged some of the items inside the system to improve the intuitive work approach.

SkaDate Master Other Feature Improvements

  • New option allows to disable interactions between members of the same gender;
  • Site language can now be auto-selected for specific countries;
  • Classifieds have been enhanced with a new search option;
  • Albums can now be made password-protected;
  • New option allows to add custom affiliate banners;
  • Most displayed error messages were overhauled for better understanding;
  • Searching the site now displays the total number of found results;
  • All external links now have a no-follow attribute;
  • New option allows to test third-party SMTP setup before sending mail;
  • Myriad of other minor improvements and bug fixes;

Visit this page for a full list of all SkaDate Master features.

SkaDate Master New Free Theme

No SkaDate Release is complete without a new template. This time our Design Department came up with a bright and shiny traditional dating theme in Gold 2.  Combining best elements of our past efforts, Gold 2 is already our favorite and is a benchmark for SkaDate professional templates for years to come. Be the first to try it on!

SkaDate Master Free Theme

SkaDate Master Conclusion

SkaDate Master is the ultimate build of SkaDate, and the natural progression in our effort of producing best dating software tools on the market. SkaDate Master can be used by both, beginning startupers with ambition to conquer online dating industry, and seasoned companies  with vast experience in the area of online business.

To see SkaDate Master in action, please visit our Demo Page. Don’t forget to check out our portfolio featuring real examples of active dating sites running on SkaDate. If you are the current owner of a previous SkaDate build, please contact our Support Service for the Update Instructions. Otherwise, get in touch with SkaDate Pre-Sales Team to ask any additional questions or to purchase SkaDate Master now.

Skadate Dating Software Features: Virtual Gift Shop

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

 

by Varda Carrera

Virtual Gift Shop is a beautiful SkaDate Dating Software feature that allows you to monetize your dating website. Millions of virtual gifts are purchased every year, involving transaction of over $4 Billion; and this amount of money is increasing by 40% per year.

At first sight, it seems strange that users agree to pay real money for virtual gifts. But they actually pay not for the gift, which is just an image at its core, but for the message that stands behind. Gifts make communication more effective and emotional, they show affection, sympathy, appreciation. Especially gifts are important for dating websites: if the user applies a virtual gift to the message, the chance to receive an answer is twice higher. The point that the gift has a price makes it more valuable.

Virtual gifts are in a high demand nowadays and it’s reasonable to focus your monetization efforts on them. To establish your own unique virtual gift shop, you need to go to SkaDate Dating Software admin area and choose “virtual gifts” in a “configuration” section. To create a virtual gift template choose a picture from your computer by clicking the “choose file” button in a “create template” section and download it. At the same section you may not only set up credits cost per each gift as well as status (active or inactive) but also you may classify your gifts by categories. To create a new category click “add category”, type in the title and then click the “add” button.

Well, the technical part is quite simple , but I also want to provide you with some facts which help you to understand the reasons why users exchange virtual gifts. This information may be useful in creating an effective virtual gifting-based business.

  • Virtual gifting frequency depends on gender: women send virtual gifts 5 times more often and for more various purposes than men. Men usually do that for romantic reasons.
  • Virtual romantic gifts are appreciated as much as real ones and probably even more, because they are visible to the entire user’s social network, while offline presents are only visible to a narrow group of people. This fact raises users’ value in their own eyes.
  • Reciprocity is a fundamental factor in the process of virtual gifting for both the sender and the recipient. People usually give presents because they hope to receive a positive response and receivers feel obliged to give a present back. So, remember when creating your own virtual gift shop, powered by SkaDate Dating Script, that a “thank you” virtual gift in your inventory might be in demand.

The most romantic season is coming very soon, so it’s a good time to monetize your dating website by upgrading your virtual gift shop. If you still don’t have a SkaDate Dating Software license, than it’s a perfect time to buy one.