Choosing Dating Script

How to minimize the risk while choosing community/dating software? This is a reasonable question, since software is an intangible product, and can't be physically returned to the vendor. Doing a simple "survey" before the dating script purchase will save a lot of time and trouble later, and is far more pleasant than requesting a refund from the software vendor if you find the product unsatisfactory.

Here are a few 'DON'T's you should keep in mind choosing the right community/dating script for your business:

• Don't trust every single software review on the Internet. Most of them are affiliated. Internet gives us a wonderful opportunity to speak out remaining anonymous. And competing dating script providers use it both for good and bad purposes. Most often, the worst reviews appear to be written by the dating software company competitors, and the most praising ones - by the vendors themselves.
  Trust only those negative reviews that contain detailed description of software bugs and issues, the real client name, and the website URL. Real positive reviews are pretty rare, because prosperous business owners are simply too busy to tell their success stories or protect the dating software vendor's reputation on the Internet.

• Don't fall for price tricks. Expensive doesn't always stand for quality. And cheap doesn't always mean buggy. Choosing a dating script don't pay too much attention to the price, unless it gets over your budget.

• Don't get immediately attracted by such features as '3D City' or 'free unlimited video chat'. They might sound attractive, but as practice shows, users rarely use them because of poor feature performance.
  For example, 3D City will work well in browsers with ActiveX support only (Internet Explorer).... While more than a half of your site members will be using other browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome). This application has certain server requirements, which makes it harder for you to find an appropriate hosting for your dating software. On top of that, 3D City is known to be pretty glitchy. I bet, your members will feel nothing but irritation trying to get one of the most advertised site features work.
  Same story is about a 'free unlimited video chat'. A stable, high-performance audio/video chat which is free sounds utopian, and here is why. So don't let the catchy site features take you apart from the common sense. Always analyze before making a final decision.

And that's what you should pay attention to while looking for the best dating software solution:

• Do pay attention to the company official web site. You should be able to easily find a page with all the product packages, prices and included features. Check for guarantees (e.g. free bug fixing) and benefits the dating script vendor provides.

• Do give preference to mature companies over the new-born ones. The time-tested dating site software would be significantly more stable, secure and feature-rich.

• Do check for the dating/community script provider awards, certificates and other signs of recognition (participation in industry-related exhibitions, conferences and forums).

• Do give a careful study to the dating script demo and portfolio sites (testimonials). You should have a clear idea of what your site will look like. Spare some time to register with the portfolio sites powered by the dating script you are interested in, check the features, design, usability. Bug pre-sales operators with all kinds of questions that might come to your mind. Clarifying things and answering your questions is exactly what they are supposed to do.

• And most importantly, do check if the dating/community software of your choice comes with full access to the source code. In other words, make sure that you will own the script code after purchase. Besides being an important aspect of future software modification, this is a matter of staying on a safe side in case the vendor goes bankrupt or simply abandons the product one day.
  In case the community/dating software provider allows access to the script code - confirm if the code is 100% open, and has no licensed or encrypted files. File encryption may result in serious complications during the software customization, and the vendor branding removal.

These are some basic 'DO's and 'DON'T's to keep in mind for choosing the right online dating script that will become a prefect platform for your site.

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