Dating Software Reviews is a community of webmasters and dating scripts clients that offer reviews of online dating applications and services provided by dating software development companies. Dating platforms range from php to asp based applications, free, private and hosted solutions.
As with all community forums and review sites, your mileage may, no, will, vary. Some people put more time and effort into reviews, others simply mention the most popular packages or list every software package even remotely related to dating.
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If you’re serious about starting a site the only way to go is with CUSTOM script/software. Nothing against the dating scripts out there, but as a dating site owner I can’t imagine running the site with some piece of code someone, somewhere wrote. It’s just not gonna happen.
Check the leading sites out there, they all use custom made software, on a different platforms.
BS. It’s a clear farce from one of the vendors… not to mention names – look at the ones praised. the same type of english as in press releases.
Resources of this kind are in no way trustable. Dave, I suggest you look at modmysite to have a better picture because the final truth is what customers say.
Absix, most dating site owners are not coders, for a select few, building from scratch may be a labor of love, for the rest, who needs to reinvent the wheel?
I’ve heard from several people that Dating software reviews may be run by a dating software site, looking into it.
Sometimes you seem to contradict yourself, Dave. You call for innovation, but then say things like this. The industry needs innovation, but doesn’t need more cookie cutter sites.
I don’t see it as a contradiction in the least. Writing software from scratch to run a dating site from is absolutely unnecessary and 100% unreasonable for the majority of entrapreneurs wanting to start a dating service. Just because a site is run on an ASP platform or script does not mean it can’t be innovative. Design, layout, UI, branding, feature mix and marketing are all ways one may differentiate their “cookie-cutter” default site. I call that innovation.
What is really important – is finding the solution that you really need that is the best solution for you.
Dating Scripts – Should have technical skills in order to set these up. Bear in mind that you may or may not have a database with the script, if you are offered one is is one offered on other sites and wont convert well. If you have to build you own database then figure on a year to build critical mass before you have enough to sell from, but you can use the site before then for selling advertising.
Scripts vary according to their complexity, but not always the case.
Other things to think of is either the cost of upgrades, usually charged extra, you maybe charged for these so take care in choosing,, if this is you option.
Comment: Probably not the best solution if you are looking to make revenue quickly.
As a positive this is an option that can set you on the road to independence, remember though if you come to this point you will have to redevelop your software anyway.
If your idea is to build a mega site then do this with your own ideas and programmers from the start, a dating script/software provider may help you with this.
You may or may not have your own merchant account and if you do you may be charged a large percentage, take care some will cost you up to 15% – with your other costs of development and hosting, means that your profit is mostly lost unless you seel traffic to other dating sites.
Site Providers such as diydating, tangowire etc that provide simple sites ready made with payment provider and hosting is a good start also.
Things to watch out for is that many of these are quite small and conversion rates are not impressive as their databases maybe extremely small and as they cover global areas can make this very thin to spread over a great area. Other problems that we have come across is that merchant accounts percentages can be quite high. Many of these site pay only on initial payments.
Tanagowire for example has only one design, so doesn’t convert well, while diydating has a recognizable format that never changes.
Some good points are they are easy to set up and maintain, diydating has some better designs, but watch out for penalties on chargeback’s which come back to you on all these kinds of sites.
Some sites charge a setup fee, and some also offer free membership to the site owners which encourages fraudsters to use for scamming.
Dating Solution providers – This is the top end of the market and usually more exclusive. Relationshipexchange charge $5000 for set up and quite a small revenue share.
Springstreet is one of the best in the sites, now owned by Friendfinder, I think this is used as part of their own service now, so may be biased, this would need checking http://www.springstreetnetworks.com/settlement.html was all I could find, they don’y give much information away. I believe they charge, but are exclusive to partners that have high traffic, applications that I have tried in the past have brought no response. I think their payment model is per contact, which is not very good as you cannot build a good increasing revenue. You can see how this works on our own calculator http://world-dating-partners.com/index.do
Embarrassingly in this our own system tops, because we offer any option that a partner wants from branded to templates, everything is free with a quick setup – we process over 14 credit and debit cards on a very low rate and conversion rates are extremely high due to web content and the size of our database is now equal to match.com. Read more or write to me if you want clarification on suystems. We have created sites for over 30 radio stations in the UK, for the British Army air force and Navy, nightclubs, charities and TV. But every partner is more than welcome to join, big or small. We have a substantial backup development and support team of over 50 staff 4 of which dedicated to helping partners with marketing and technical support.
The link to the review site is down. Was going to add a link back to our own ‘run your dating site’ solution on it, but judging by the comments so far, I’m pleased I didn’t.
If you want to Run Your Own Dating Site there are numerous options from getting the site custom scripted, using ‘off the shelf’ software, or a ‘white label’ solution, like that offered by ourselves.
The hardest part of running a dating site is without doubt the building of an initial membership database. Hence why I’d opt for a ‘white label’ solution. Unless you’ve got deep advertising pockets, or an already established portal type sites with a loyal and regular customer database, it’s the most cost effective answer to the problem.
It’s chicken and egg, people won’t join your dating site because no-one else has – or if they do, there’s no database to interact with. Bottom line being, whatever model of generating an income through the site you have, it just won’t work.
With our system, you can choose to populate your site with members that are part of a ‘central’ pool initially, plus once you get a big enough database of members joining your individual site, you can choose to switch off the ‘pool’ and have an exclusive site showing just your site’s membership database.
It works like a co-operative, you get a fully functional admin suite, you can newsletter your members, run your own affiliate program – yep you read that right, the ability to run your site’s own affiliate program is built in… Use the central database of members or choose to opt out. You don’t have the headache of releasing profile and photos – our admin staff do that for you. You just get on with the task in hand of promoting your site.
Anyway, that’s just my two penneth. Check it out for yourselves if you wish.
Cheerio
As a recent (October 2007) and unhappy customer of ABK-SOFT, the makers of AbleDating and AbleSpace software, I have documented my technical and customer service experience with them as a warning to other buyers. Unfortunately, it is lengthy so I created a website for the review complete with support documentation:
icongroupthailand.com/abk-softwarning.php
Thank you.
Michael G. Hines
IconGroupThailand.com
Skadate’s software is old and runs on only a limited number of hosting solutions, they offer a 30 day money back guarantee but only for managed solution. I didn’t even get the software downloaded which I paid $795.00 for and they still won’t give me a refund so I had to hire an attorney!!!!
DON’T USE THEM EVER!!!!
Karyn,
You are wrong to assume that SkaDate runs with only limited number of hosting companies. It’s a good idea to make sure you meet hosting requirements before you purchase any software. Although we are on the firm ground with EULA and server requirements, we are making refund just because we want to help you.
I checked to make sure we met all hosting requirements, I even has an early conversation with someone in tech support about this and he told me it was fine. I operate several websites and the particular software isn’t compatible with my hosing company who I have a long term contract with. I don’t believe I am wrong about the limited number of hosting companies. Most hosting companies have upgraded their systems to a different platform that is not compatible with SKADATE. I research this after discovering SKADATE couldn’t be installed. I never even downloaded the software and went in a differant direction. It is up to the company to ensure all systems are go with what the customer wants to use. I don’t like being dictated to on who I should use as a hosting company, I am the customer so I get to choose.
If you are with SKADATE and you take pride in your work and your statement about making a re fund is true then I will expect a refund of $795.00 credited back to my account or a check sent to me. Until then I stand by my statements. Once I refund is issued and received I will share a decent review for you.
Karyn,
I don’t understand how a refund can make a “decent review”. Nonetheless, feel free to write to my email info AT skadate DOT com and send the chat log with the person that supposedly told you your setup was fine.
If mistake was ours, we will issue full refund. Otherwise, we will deduct processing fee as told you earlier.
This blog is not a place for arguments. I will respond by email.
Thank you.
With all due respect my attorney and credit card company are handling this for me.
The chat log was never sent to me as requested.
You might be right about the blog not being a place for arguments but I wasn’t getting anywhere with your company until I posted here.
I respectfully await a full refund, there is no mention of a processing fee with your 30 day money back guarantee.
Thank you!
ABK-Soft.com is notorious for ripping people off. Check out this post by DatingScripts.
http://www.datingscripts.biz/2009/01/10/abledating-sucks/
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Datingsoftwarereviewers.com is a FAKE review website, setup by ABK-soft.
All facts and prove can be found here: http://www.datingscriptreviews.com/warning-abk-soft where i advocate everything with screenshots and facts.
Also read the warning from the Better Business Bureau: http://www.labbb.org/BBBWeb/Forms/Business/CompanyReportPage_Expository.aspx?CompanyID=100058710
ABK-soft is a Russian scammers company who keep trying to clean their reputation on the internet by spamming (webmaster) forums, websites and setup fake review websites and blogs.
DONT BE THE NEXT ONE WHO GET SCAMMED AND DO SOME RESEARCH!!!
Dont use this company, they are scammers, they take your money and give you a poor website, the basic 3d city and cheap looking chat rooms.When you want support they can either ignore you specially if u complain or take weeks to reply.The you tube software they have advertised as free for the last year doesnt even exist yet. The Free upgrades are only Free if you are super website genius, other wise you have to pay $300 for them to do it.
They NEVER refund, even when i asked the very next day.
They are russians and use many other names, including skadate and abledating.
Bewarned, do not waste your money on these scammers
SKADATE IS SCAM!!! They state to be in the US BUT THIS IS TOTAL LIE. Nothing is easier than to check the whois: http://whois.domaintools.com/skadate.com
Administrative Contact:
Sarnogoev, Emil
Alamedin-1, d.19, kv.84
Bishkek, 720083
Kyrgyzstan
996312584249
IS THIS SOMEWHERE IN THE USA? :-D
And if you need his photo, he himself has posted it on YouTube, he is sitting in his Kyrgizstan and laughing at us, taking our money and not fearing anything! And really, it is hard to get him in his Kyrgyzstan, he is right. But what we CAN do is AVOID sponsoring the international terrorism and scammers from SKADATE!
Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgmA2mECkGs
Here is the photo:
http://datingsoftwarereviewer.com/images/skadate17.jpg
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! DO NOT SPONSOR INTERNATIOe NAL SCAMMERS AND TERRORISTS SKADATE!!
It seems most dating reviews are done or commented on by people who have a grievance. The same few people are posting all kinds of nasty things on every blog and forum they can find. What we also need, however, are people who have had good experiences speak about the software that they are using. Personally, I am now running a site using ABK-Soft software. The site is amazing, and I’m now getting around 50 – 100 new members a day. If you don’t believe me, check out the name link at the top. This software seems to have the most features for the money, and I’ve never had any issues or concerns with their customer service.
A dating coach for minorities and men, sharing successful seduction tips and flirting advice for dating beautiful women.
@UStillUp
You must talking about yourself.
I see you grab any opportunity to talk good about ABK-Soft, Abledating, AbleSHIT, etc.
Also in threads on forums like Digitalpoint.
You belong to the group of the ABK-Soft scammers, and sure even you have a domain you can simply use false personal details, that’s what you guys are doing.
@Ssan
Thanks.
Again a new prove that DatngSoftwareReviewer is a FAKE review website and belongs to ABK-Soft.
Of course we already had enough prove, it’s all mentioned and advocated on http://www.datingscriptreviews.com and click WARNING.
But with this link you mentioned in your post: datingsoftwarereviewer dot com/images/skadate17.jpg you prove more and more that you guys are fakers, liars and SCAMMERS.
Wherever you guys see the opportunity to show an image of Osama Bin Laden together with an employee of Skadate, you show the same image.
It must be dumb poor Russian lowclass scumbag humor to laugh everytime about the same joke, as you use it for ages already.
Hi! I would like to put up a dating site using ready-made software. I almost bought from abledating, but there was a glitch in their credit card verification system, hence I was unable to purchase. I saw a lot of negative comments on providers of software. Can somebody please suggest a good one that runs on php? Thank you!
Check out the vendors listed in the sidebar. Picking dating software that works for your particular situation can be tricky. Remember to ask lots of questions, especially about support and a list of developers you can use to customize the templates.
The reality is that 99% of the people that are looking to start a dating site can’t afford to develop their own solution because it would cost thousands of dollars. That is why there are packaged solutions out there and if you get one that is open source then you can modify what you want a lot cheaper than building your own. It would take a year or more to develop your own solution and that is a bare-bones type of solution. Not feature rich. So, if you got about $50,000 dollars then go ahead and develop your own. That would make sense then but only if you have an extra $50,000 in the bank and considering this economy, i doubt it.
Michael
Wazzum.com
DatingSoftwareReviewer.com is run by ABK-Soft.com. They are a known scammer company per the BBB website. Here is the link below:
http://www.la.bbb.org/Business-Report/ABK-Soft-Ltd-100058710
If you view all the reviews on that site you will see that ABK-Soft.com gets 10 out of 10 for all 3 of their apps while all the other packages get below 6 out of 10. ABK-Soft.com is also known for blacklisting dating software providers to put their software above everyone else. They also are located in Russia despite their claims of being in Los Angeles.
You and a lot more people have been ripped off by abk-soft.com. I wish more people would read REAL reviews done by sites like the BBB and not these fake review sites setup by abk-soft.com.
http://www.la.bbb.org/Business-Report/ABK-Soft-Ltd-100058710