User Features
- Profile search
Search by distance, zip codes, cities, countries, usernames, keywords. Ability to narrow down site search to any geographic location. 'Refine Search'. Saved search criteria. Quick and Advanced search forms. - Matchmaking
View the list of profiles that meet your match criteria. Receive the matching profiles list (with photo) to your email. - Mailbox
Internal messaging system in a convenient dialogue-like contact center. Improved user interface. Possibility to start new conversations right from the mailbox. Auto-complete suggestions from the friends list for the 'Send to' field.
- Who viewed my profile
Shows users who viewed a member's profile, and a number of times his profile page was opened. - Photo upload
Customizable limit for uploaded photos. Easy preview. Private photo. Password-protected photo. Watermark support. - Music upload
Allows site members to express their mood and personality by uploading, commenting and rating their favorite music tracks in MP3 format. - Video sharing
Popular video sharing feature for community sites. Supports embedding video from _all_ video sharing resources such as YouTube, Metacafe, Myspace, etc... - Photo albums
Lets members sort their photos to albums by certain preferences. Customizable limit for a number of photos per album. - Audio/video profile
Members can record multiple audio/video profiles online via webcam. Available as chuPPo Recorder addon. - Ajax chat
Ajax-based text chat. Supports chat rooms and Instant Messaging. - Video chat
Advanced flash chat with webcam support. Available as chuPPo Chat addon and 123FlashChat addon. - Video Instant Messenger
Private chat for online members with webcam support. Available as chuPPo Messenger addon and 123 Web Messenger addon. - Profile builder
AJAX-driven drag'n'drop interface for building a custom profile page. Allows members to add/move/remove profile page components. - RSS feeds
A convenient interface allowing members to invite their Facebook friends to join your site. A great tool for boosting your site popularity. - Virtual Gift Shop
Makes it fun for users to express their sympathy for other site members by sending graphic presents from a Virtual Gift Shop. Possibility to show/hide the member's virtual gifts on a Profile View page. - Events
Allows members to submit events with photo and description. Calendar/list display modes. - Groups
Allows site members to create and join sub-networks (groups) to share their interests and affiliations. Private and Public groups. Private group forum. Join free or by invitation only. Group image upload. - User Points system
Allows site members to buy or earn user points (credits) and spend them on site services, such as Virtual Gift Shop, sending and reading messages, initiating IM sessions and more. - Preferences page
Members can set their own preferences for using the site. - Customizable profile status
Members can protect their privacy by making their profile either Private or Public. - Forums
Public message board as a native SkaDate feature.
Possibility to insert pictures to the forum post body, attach files to forum posts, send private messages from the forum post view page. - Blogs
Personal full-featured blog for every member. Summary of latest blog posts. - Profile guestbook
Personal member message board for others to comment. - Tags
A really capturing new age feature. Members can tag their content like photo, video, and blog posts. Search by tag. Popular tags selection. - Polls
Really helpful for gathering public stats. Unlimited polls answers, display and vote control. Custom answer support. Deactivation time control. - Classifieds
Members can post job vacancies and classified ads at your web site. Site Administrator can set classified ads either for manual, or for automatic approval. - Music player
Listen to your favorite music by embedding codes from popular music share resources such as Spool.fm and others. - Member reports
Members can report inappropriate content on your web site. - Photo/video/blog Rate
Ajax-driven interface for quick and fun content rating. - Bookmarks
Possibility to bookmark noteworthy profiles. - Blocklist
Possibility to block members to prevent them from sending you messages, gifts, initiating an IM session with you, bookmarking your profile. - Friends networking
Friends network displayed on a member's Profile View Page. - Invite a friend
Send invitation letters. Customizable email template. Customizable invitations limit. Customizable invitation lifetime. - Contact import
Import your friends contacts from more than 20(!) email and social networking services to invite your friends. - Send profile to a friend
Send noteworthy profile links to your friends by email. - Referrals system
Allows members to register for viral site promotion and makes it a snap to track referral statistics in the Admin Panel.
Site Features
- Badwords
Automatic BadWords Filter moderates abusive language according to the bad words list pre-defined by a site administrator. - Google sitemap
Automatically generates an XML SiteMap of your web site right in the Admin Panel, which helps your site search engine optimization for Google, Yahoo, Ask etc. - Multiple languages
Convenient interface that makes working with site languages quick and simple. Missing values track, language keys and values search. Really easy to add new languages right from admin panel. No programming or file work needed! - Smilies
Centralized customizable set of smilies for all user-generated content: messages, descriptions, forum posts, comments, blogs, etc. - Profile lists
View featured members (selected by admin), online members, new members, birthdays, etc. - Affiliate program
3 types of affiliate payouts in any combination: pay-per-click, pay-per-signup, pay-per-subscription. Both fixed and percent commission. - Text/image watermark on photo/video
Customizable watermark - custom text with selected foreground and background color or a custom image. Customizable position and padding. - Advertisement
Complete control of every site page. Several ad positions on a page. Ads within search results. Possibility to hide ads for paying members. Geo-targeted ads - Free registration or by-invitation-only
Free join or closed club mode when new members are invited by members and/or admin. - Navigation
Menu items customized in Administration Panel. - Custom pages
Create custom pages on your site right from the Admin Panel! - Distributed contact form
Email-implicit contact form with possibility to add different emails for different departments, such as support, finance, billing, etc... - Captcha
Blocks automatic signup attempts. - Filters and Spam protection
Catches automated and manual spam/scam attempts. - Links page
Easily managed link exchange page with sections. - Advanced 'Who is online' list
Browse online members by gender. - Latest activity
Shows updates on the latest uploaded photo, video, blog posts, new events, comments and news. Can be enabled/disabled via the Admin Panel. - Automatic Happy Birthday email
System sends out automatic Happy Birthday emails to site members.
Administrator Features
- SMS billing
Get payments by sms for web site services such as Hot List and 24 hour trial Membership. - Moderators
Assign members to moderate your web site content. - Profile questions/fields
Unlimited custom profile questions. Complete control of registration, edit, view, search form questions. Unlimited number of registration, edit, view form pages. Possibility to divide questions into sections. - Dependent profile fields
Great feature allowing to build subset of profile questions depending on the value of a base field. Must-have for sites with differentiated profile types (couples). - Notifications about new member registration
Site Administrators can activate new member registration notifications to provide prompt support and profile review. - Photo verification
Make your web site a safe place for dating. This tool helps you check if uploaded photos belong to real site members. - User/photo moderation
Full control of member's profile content and status, uploaded photo, multimedia, and membership review. Batch photo approve tool. - Automatic photo crop tool
Automatically seeks and crops faces in member photos. Perfect for thumbnails in search results. Available as FaceJuggle addon. - Membership management
Fully customizable membership types, subscription plans, prices, periods. Subscription, free trial, paid trial supported. - Limited features management
Choose what site features and services are available to a each of the membership types. - Payment providers
Possibility to set up an unlimited number of payment providers for site members' convenience. Perfect for popular 'PayPal or Credit Card' setup. Numerous providers (including PayPal,CCBill) already integrated. - Finance
Transaction list, refunds, chargebacks management. Search, calculator. - Mass mailing
Send new features notifications, promotion actions and distribute ads within your member base. Flexible user segmentation by profile questions and other factors. Possibility to send bulk messages either to internal site mailboxes, or directly to members' email addresses. - Activity scheduler
Customizable timetable for reminder mass-mailing, matches delivery and abandoned profile deletion based on member last activity time. Possibility to send out notifications a certain number of days before the membership expiration date. - Matchmaking setup
Custom regular and 'match' fields creation makes it easy to set up matchmaking based on the profile questions you want. Great for niche dating. - Google analytics
Add your Google analytics code right from the Admin Panel. No code interference.
General Overview
- Fast, stable and reliable dating site software engine.
- Functional modules and interface layouts independency, thus real flexibility of creating a unique look and feel
- Easy languages management - translate your site within Administration panel
- Powerful configuration makes SkaDate the right choice for any custom online dating or social networking site
- Wise AJAX technology use for faster user and admin experience
Site monetization
SkaDate community software has a number of features to help you start your own profitable online business and earn money online.
- Memberships. Create memberships and set your own subscription fees and privileges.
- User Points system. Allows users to buy points (credits) and spend them on site services.
- Advertisement. Add links and banners from Google Ads and earn on a CPI & CPC basis.
- SMS Billing. Integrated SMS-billing payment system.
- 24 trial membership. Promotional 24 hour membership that can be purchased via SMS.
- Hot List. Paid featured profile placement.
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