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' ability. Quick and full search forms. - Saved Searches
Members can store their favorite search criteria to easily make the same searches later. - Photo Upload
Customizable number of photos. Easy preview. Private photo. Watermark support. - Password Protected Photos
Any photo can be protected with an individual password. - Multimedia upload
Online audio/video streaming of member uploaded files. Customizable player screen size and uploaded files size. - Audio/Video Profile
Members can record multiple audio/video profiles online via webcam. Available as chuPPo Recorder addon. - Mailbox
Internal messaging and virtual kisses (flirts, winks) system in a convenient dialogue-like contact center. Templates support for virtual kisses. Optional email notifications on message/kiss arrival. Improved user interface. - E-cards
Extended virtual kiss system to send greetings and card pictures. - Ajax Chat/IM
Simple Chat/Instant Messenger on Ajax technology. - Video Chat
Cool new chat with webcam support. Available as chuPPo Chat addon. - Video Instant Messenger
Private chat for online members with webcam support. Can be invoked on any site page. Available as chuPPo Messenger addon. - Profile Builder
AJAX-driven drag'n'drop interface to build custom profile page. Members can add/move objects and write custom HTML code. Better than MySpace and anything else. - Preferences Page
Members can set their own preferences of how they use the site. - Forums
Cool AJAX-driven public message board as a native SkaDate feature. Not a 3rd party software integration. - Blogs
Personal full-featured blog for every member. Summary of latest blog posts on one page. - Profile Guestbook
Personal message board for every member where others can leave comments. - Skype Call Link
Click on a link to make an instant skype call to a member. - Matchmaking
View or receive by email the list of matches by specified criteria. - Tags
Really capturing new age feature. Members tag themselves and each other. Search by tag. Popular, recent, rare tags selection. Customizable tags filter. - Polls
Really helpful for gathering public stats. Unlimited polls answers, display and vote control. Custom answer support. Deactivation time control. - Photo Rate, Profile Rate
Ajax-driven interfaces for quick and fun rate process, really capturing. Profile gender selection for photo rate. Your rate display on profile preview for both profile and photos. - Video Sharing and Rate
Popular video sharing feature for community sites. - Flash Video Sharing
Integrated FFmpeg library for flv video conversion. YouTube-like video play in on-page flash player. All major formats (including .3gp and .mov) supported. - Bookmarks
Ability to bookmark those to keep an eye on. - Blocklist
Ability to block members. Blocked members can't send you messages, kisses, start IM with you, add you to bookmarks. - Friends networking
Network of friends, displayed on member view page. - Invite a friend
Send letters with invitations. Customizable email template. Customizable invitations limit. Customizable invitation lifetime. - Send profile to a friend
Send to a site member by username or to a non-member by email. - Viral Promotion
Set up special actions like "Invite 10 friends and get ... FREE!" for viral site promotion. - Optional email verification
Normally on but can be turned off.
Site Features
- Multiple languages
Convenient interface to work with site languages. 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: pages, descriptions, forums, comments, blogs, etc... - Events
Can be submitted both by admin and members. Events moderation. Calendar/list display modes. - Affiliate program
3 types of affiliate payouts in any combination: pay-per-click, pay-per-signup, pay-per-subscription. Both fixed and percent commission. - Press
Full-featured content management system. Rich text posts, posts preview, categories hierarchy, featured posts, press search. - Featured/Online profile lists
View featured members, selected by admin. View members currently on site. - Text/Image watermark on photo/video
Customizable watermark - custom text with given foreground and background color or a custom image. Customizable position and padding. - Advertisement
Complete control of every page of your site. Several ad positions on a page. Ads within search results. Ability to turn off ads for paying members, etc... - Registration or Invite-only
Free join or closed club mode when new members are invited by members and/or admin. - Navigation
Menu items customized in administration panel. - Distributed Contact Form
Email-implicit contact form with ability to add different emails for different departments, like support, finance, tech, 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.
Administrator Features
- Profile Questions/Fields
Unlimited custom profile questions. Complete control of registration, edit, view, search form questions set. Unlimited number of registration, edit, view form pages. Ability to divide questions into sections. - Dependent Profile Fields
Cool feature allowing to build subset of profile questions depending on the value of one key field. Must-have for sites with differentiated profile types, like couples&females. - User/Photo Moderation
Full member profiles content, photo, multimedia, status, membership review control. Batch photo approve tool. - Automatic Photo Crop Tool
Automatically seeks and crops faces on member photos. Perfect for thumbnails in search results. Available as FaceJuggle addon. - Membership Management
Completely customizable membership types, subscription plans, prices, periods. Subscription, credits, free trial, paid trial supported. - Limited Features Management
Silver members can send only 10 messages a day, etc... - Payment Providers
You can have any numbers of payment providers set up. Users can choose how they want to pay. Perfect for popular 'PayPal or Credit Card' setup. Numerous providers (including CCBill) supported. - 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. - Activity Scheduler
Customizable timetable for reminder mass-mailing, matches delivery and abandoned profile deletion based on member last activity time. - 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.
Server Requirements
- Linux/Unix/Windows OS
- Apache Server 1.3.x
- PHP 4.x (server module and system binary)
- MySQL 4.1.x
- GD Library 2 with FreeType support
- Mail server (SendMail, Exim or other)
- Cron
If you want us to install the package for you, we will need SSH access to the server. Otherwise, you will need to ask your hosting provider for assistance.
If you want to use Adobe Flash technologies for video sharing instead of Microsoft Media, you also need to have additional server software installed:
- FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu)
- Mplayer + Mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html)
- Flv2tool (http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2)
- Libogg + Libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/downloads)
- LAME MP3 Encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net)
Don't bother if you have managed solution or hosting from SkaDate!
General Overview
- Fast, stable and reliable dating site software engine insured by our 30 day money back guarantee
- 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
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