SkaDate Questions and Answers

There are a lot of options for monetizing your dating business. SkaDate provides a couple of monetization features like a paid membership, a user credit system, virtual gifting, and ad banner placement.

1. Membership Subscriptions: SkaDate allows you to create different membership levels with varying access to features and services. Users can subscribe to these memberships, and you can charge them regularly (monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc.).
2. Paid Access to Features: You can restrict certain features or functionalities on your dating platform to premium members only. Users who want access to these premium features will need to pay for them.
3. Virtual Currency: SkaDate might have a virtual currency system that allows users to purchase virtual credits or coins. These credits can be used to unlock additional features or send virtual gifts to other users.
4. Advertising: SkaDate might offer advertising options that allow you to display ads on your dating platform. You can charge advertisers for ad space and target ads based on user demographics.

We've prepared a detailed guide on how to monetize your dating app or website.

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.

At this point, the system found all male users looking for females. Then, the system checks whether those male users match you and 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 the “100%,” - those users match you 100%.

Users can also set up their own matchmaking preferences and the value they want to add to one or another answer in the profile questionnaire. For example, users can set preferences to match more often with people whose eye color is blue by setting more value to the “blue eyes” answer. In this case, they will have less percentage compatibility with a person who has “green” eyes.

Server-side:

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

Software-side

• 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 the way all the incoming data is processed ($_GET, $_POST). Also, we use a user content output handler, making 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 hackers to use this data for 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 upload of dangerous scripts/files to the server.

Other: 

• A “Block Profile” system. If a member is annoyed by another member, he can easily block him;
•  IP block feature for Admin. A Site Administrator will have the possibility to block a member IP right via Admin Panel; 
• Report system. Members can send reports on suspicious photos, videos, profiles, and even the comments left. All the reports will come to Admin Approval.