I've been SUFFERING with SkaDate for nearly 2 years! I've been SUFFERING through their AWFUL "technical support" for 2 years now. It seems like every time I'm in trouble with their software, they have some excuse. The MOST RECENT is that they have removed the customer forums (where customers could get REAL help, not the Skadate awful technical support!) They say "Oh, the new forum will be up on Monday. I highly doubt it, but even if it is, it's RIDICULOUS that they didn't leave it up for existing customers to access while they build a new one. I'm toward the tail-end of a site redesign, and there's a bug (there's LOTS of bugs!) that is stopping me - yet their technical "support" isn't available until Monday - and they removed the one thing that has helped them - the community forums. Aside from that, Skadate DOES NOT SCALE! Their database is SOO SLOW that you have to throw TONS of resources at it just to make it usable. Their "mobile app" is even worse! It's not responsive, and they charge paying customers for the app (which is awful to start with), then they charge for "customization" which is worse than the base application! SERIOUSLY AVOID SKADATE AT ALL COSTS! COME UP WITH ANY OTHER PLAN THAN USING THEM!

Dating software with a lot of gaps For some inconceivable reason skadate really likes to upset their customers. It takes about 1 or 2 months to get your head around the admin side of the software. Once the site is up and running with active users you will start noticing a lot of unfinished or half-baked features that the users will complain about. Try talking to support about these issues and they will promise to fix it in the next release, but the fix never happens. Some people have been waiting for 3-4 years for things that a developer could patch in an hour. As it stands here are some pending issues that are on their to do list that we called out Have a read and make your purchase decision wisely. 1. Support for multilingual emails. Right now the only messages that get sent out in the language of the user are the registration confirmation emails. All other emails are in the default site language. 2. Matchmaking algorithm does not take into account the "Match Age" criteria that the user specifies during sign up. Why is the match age field there if it plays no role in matchmaking? 3. Language packs offered by skadate are poorly translated. The quality of translation is similar to that of Google translate. 4. Notification emails for Winks arrive whilst user's session is active. This results in high volume of unsubscribes. Wink emails should instead be included in the digest email similar to other notifications.

Best dating software Couple of words about my site first. I am using Skadate script for a rather specific niche where "dating" per say is actually more of an interest matchmaking process. I have clubs who would like to find members and members looking for a club to join. Well, Skadate script so far works great for me. Some features do not come out of box. Well I did expect this, thus got an Advanced solution with some free development hours to cover major modification of mine - connecting events to clubs. Events feature was there by default ( another awesome thing is ability to use third party plugins). Just needed some adjustments to get a more flowless process for my niche. Pleased with the modification performed. A word of advice - talk to Natalie and confirm all modifications details beforehand. She is very helpful in determining what extra stuff you might need but don’t know about. Loved working with her!

Good For 300 bucks (I got it during black friday), I got exactly what I wanted - a script that I can play around with and start a site. Also, I managed to setup everything within the first month of free support, so I don't know if support changes ones the free one runs out. But yeah, they installed it for me and helped with some of the options. If I had to take a jab at this soft, it'd be complex admin panel, but with this amount of options I choose to ignore most of it and work with the stuff I need, which you learn after first few tries.

Tried them all - Skadate is the best I have tried them all. These are all simple pieces of software in case you don't happen to have $100,000 to develop your own dating site. I can say that Skadate is the most professional company in terms of support and the product is definitely the best among its class. I've started a site for my town and it keeps signing up users after some basic SEO.