SkaDate Questions and Answers

This is the general SkaDate FAQ section to answer most questions we get asked by customers.

PACKAGES:
MOBILE SOLUTIONS:
DESKTOP SITE SOLUTIONS
FEATURES
MONETIZATION OPTIONS
TECHNOLOGY
SECURITY

Basic Package

Choose it when you only need a supported dating website without self-branded mobile apps and without mobile app monetization.

Complete Package

Choose it when you are serious about mobile and want customizable Tinder-like mobile apps under your business name and logo

Premium Package

Choose it when you want a heavily modified website/app project.

Bespoke Solution

Best for launching projects with technology budgets of over $11,000+.

Review our pricing page to compare what’s included in every SkaDate package.

Yes, you can upgrade to any higher package in case you find that you need more for your business to grow. We’ll be happy to upgrade you for the mere price difference between any two packages. No hidden catch.

All you need to do to get a free estimate for your dating project is to fill out this form where you can describe your project in greater detail. This request will be received by our software developers who will review it and make an initial assessment. Further, if you are happy with the preliminary quote, we will move on with a detailed quotation.

Yes, sure. Please feel free to request a free four-day trial. and after come up with your final decision.

The mobile app has become an essential tool in every company’s kit, and there’s a need for a mobile app to deliver a great experience and good results. In the past few years, there’s been growing support for a new type of app – Progressive Web Apps (PWA). It combines the functions of the native app and the accessibility of a website.

Yes, in a premium package.

Our team will be able to install the default website version within 24-48 hours, except for the weekends.

Yes, in a premium package.

By default, our desktop website works with Paypal, Stripe, and CCbill (both accept payments from major credit/debit cards) payment gateways. The Progressive Web App (PWA) works with Stripe and PayPal. Our native mobile apps have in-app purchases integrated.

The software is very SEO-friendly. There are a lot of useful tools in the software that allow you to optimize your site for search engines easily. For example, automatic sitemap generation, ability to easily insert meta tags, headers and tracking codes right via the Admin Panel.

There are a lot of option for monetizing your dating business. You can have paid membership, user credit system, virtually gifting, ads and so on. We've prepared a detailed guide for your on how to monetize your dating app or website.

You will be able to create different Memberships. For example 1 mounth - $50; 2 mounths - $80; 6 mounths - $299 and etc. and assign the site services to this or that Membership. For example, you can have a Premium Membership with access to the site services. And if a free member wants to use chat, search, view profiles, photos and etc., he will be asked to upgrade to one of the Paid Memberships.

We also have a Credit System. You will be able to create different credit plans: 100 credits for $80; 150 credits - for $120 and etc. And set fees for each site service: send messages - 25 credits; read messages - 20 credits; chat - 50 credits; search - 20 credits; and so on. A member buys a Credit plan he likes and spends the credits on your site services.
Many businesses with us found out that subscriptions don’t work that well at the start, and switch to credits before they grow big enough.

Our mobile app addresses to certain controllers through URLs of your website and receives responses in the form of JSON. This scheme differs from API in that essence that the set of URLs and the format of responses are not strictly regulated and are developed as the app needs. This is a kind of basic version of the API.

Matchmaking is based on two main profile questions: gender and age. Example: you are logged in as a female user. In your profile, you have specified that you are looking for a male.
When you visit My matches page, the system will:
- check whom you are looking for. In our case you are looking for males > system will find all male users.
- check whom those found male users are looking for.
If a male user is looking for males - this will be excluded from the matchmaking process, since you are a female user and you don't match their "looking for" value.
If a male user is looking for males - this user will be included in the further filtering process, since you do match that user's Looking for value.
At this point, the system found all male users who are looking for females.
- the system checks whether those male users match you by age. And whether you match them by age.
As a result, the system pulls the list of only relevant male users. That is the user list you see when you click My Matches.
If you see 100% percentile, it means all those users match you 100%.
Log in as any user > from upper right console click your name > click My matchmaking Preferences.
You will see that on this page all questions are answered as "It is unimportant" by default. This is the same as you would have checked all boxes.
Ex: "My Matches eye color". Options are : brown, blue, green. When it is unimportant is checked, system will treat this as though you are looking for people with ANY eye color.
Try answering at least one of those questions by selecting something other then It is unimportant. Visit My matches page again, this time you will see that percentage will be different.
Ex: if you select brown for My matches eye color under your preferences, on My Matches page people who have blue eyes, will match you less than those with brown.

We have been improving our software code for over 17 years. It is highly protected. Here are the main security tools used in SkaDate software:

You will have SSL enabled on your server account, thus all the requests are encrypted;
We are using build-in cPanel security features.

CSRF token - prevents unauthorized commands transmitted through the website forms;
Antibot system implemented on the Join form - prevents the profile creation by background scripts. This will prevent the registration of fake profiles;
The forms and fields validators - every uploading file goes through a thorough extension and file type check-up. This does not allow to upload of dangerous scripts/files to the server.
SQL injection - to be protected from such injections we use PDO. That is a reliable way to protect a script from SQL injections.
XSS - developing the software we pay much attention to a way all the incoming data is processed ($_GET, $_POST). Also, we use a user content output handler and it makes it easier to control the outgoing content.
Hash’&’Salt user passwords. User password encryption has been a long-awaited security enhancement, which we have given a high-priority status for this update. Now your users’ passwords will be stored in the database as encrypted symbols, making it impossible for a hacker to use this data for any malicious purposes.
Upload of the potentially dangerous files - every uploading file goes through a thorough extension and file type check-up. This does not allow to of upload dangerous scripts/files to the server.