SkaDateReviews 46

Perfect service, but shutting down in 2024.

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We are reaching out with an important update regarding the ongoing restructuring within Skalfa LLC, specifically concerning our SkaDate Software support services.

What this means for you:

We recognize the importance of a smooth transition and are fully committed to supporting your ongoing projects until the end of this year. We highly encourage you to complete all planned works, including site setups, recoloring, and app submissions, by January 1,2024.

For additional support beyond this date, we recommend seeking assistance from third-party service providers. Platforms such as Upwork host a wealth of skilled freelancers, many of whom are already experienced with our software and have worked with Skalfa clients, past and present.

Furthermore, many of our current staff specializing in SkaDate will transition to freelancing on platforms like Upwork, offering an avenue to continue receiving expert service from professionals who are intimately familiar with SkaDate projects.

We understand that change can be challenging, and we are dedicated to making this transition as seamless as possible. If you have ongoing projects requiring completion or if you have any concerns about the upcoming changes, please let me know and I will do my best to address all your requests.

Thank you for your understanding, and I look forward to helping you with your project transition effectively.

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Sincerely,
Jenna Luis
Skalfa LLC
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Thank you for reaching out with your concern.

SkaDate is indeed shutting down, which means that we will not be accepting any new customers. We will also stop selling the product and providing support for it. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to ask. I am here to assist you in making a smooth transition for your project.

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Sincerely,
Jenna Luis
Skalfa LLC

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The https://hello.skadate.com/ site will also be deactivated, but we intend to make all valuable documentation, FAQ topics, and manuals available for you or your developer to retrieve. If you wish to collect information from this source, you have until January 1st to do so.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or require further assistance.

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Sincerely,
Jenna Luis
Skalfa LLC

One of the best websites offering quality and professional web themes, apps, and plugins. Provides good professional support.

It was a very long and hard way to get any success in my online business when I started it 7 years ago for the first time. I tried out a lot of options offered on the Internet thinking that key for success is just a software. But, had no luck. 3 years ago I started working with Skadate and it was outstanding contribution to my business. I came with my idea and now I can make millions of people happy. My website is not a dating-related website, but the beauty of Skadate is that they can bring any idea to live! Thank you guys for making our lives easier and allowing me to believe in myself. God Bless you!

The support is currently $99 per month and while that seems quite a lot, the support I have received in this last ticket has been 'outstanding' and well worth it! I was allocated Lora who has been unbelievably helpful even offering extra help (regarding css and ways around things etc) where possible.

If you have a few things to work through, the costs comes down to just cents per issue and the support is absolutely top professional. There are a couple of bugs with the actual software but the support which I have received has been fantastic! Professional and straight to the point yet still friendly and if you are lucky enough to get Lora, you'll be sorted!

I had been building my business with skadate software for 3 years - it was ok - you will never do great with their software, but you can do 'OK'. Then I asked a simple question about why something wasn't working. There support did something with 'Crons' that brought my entire site down. Nothing but a white page and some code was left for my steadily growing membership database to be greeted by. I thought they would correct the mistake they made within a few hours. They didn't. In fact I sent several emails requesting they fix whatever they did and get my site that I had invested thousands into and spent 5 years working on - back online. No response. My site has been down for 4 weeks now due to a mistake they made that I need them to fix but they won't - maybe they cant, maybe they just don't care? SKADATE IS BIZARRE - WEIRD - HORRIBLE! I consider my business at this point over. I have attached a screen grab of the 'support' I received. There wasn't any! Its disgusting - DO NOT BUILD YOUR CASTLE ON SAND WITH SKADATE. Their lack of professionalism, ignorance and dumb mistakes will eventually wreck your business.

Ok folks. This sofware is HUGE as a site back end. Admin panel + deskop front end + desktop front end in mobile browser + mobile version + iOS and Android apps. Comes with the neutral and light layout for inner front end pages and mobile browsers. Therefor is exately what you need if you are using a very fancy custom one page scroll landing page powered by another script. Install skadate into subfolder and place links to it on your landing. Advice: just tell them what you need and what you are doing before you actually go ahead and do it. Lost several days trying to figure what turnd out to be a 1 min fix from their team.

Perfect back end software for matriomonial dating sites.
Quick pros:
- available extensions for some extra security (ex: Twilio based sms verificaitons).
- email verificaiton, profile + content approval that come out of the box.
- my desiner also liked an easy tool for CSS changes ( personally I have no idea what this is but it does seem to work peferctly well: smiley:

Noticable thing that is missing in default package and must be ordered additionally
- multiple step registration process ( currently only 2 steps, but I need more since i have a lot of questions users must answer during join)

All in all i liked the way I was guided throug all the processes by support team.
Am doing apps right now and might edit the review if something happens.

Im using Complete pack from Skadate. You get what you paid for. All is GREAT! Apart from script itself ( which is working as expected), their team set AWS server for me with all that stuff I had no idea about before and probably would have screwed up if I attempted to do this myself. User migration service from my old site (thats another story, but I wont name names - the first script I bought from another company turned out to be worst than crap) to new site + new server also went very well giving amount of data that I had on old site. Lost couple of users due to invalid email addresses, but other then that import went seamlessly. Defenitly recommend SK for those who already have a site and feel like moving to a new scripe.

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 dont know about. Loved working with her!

I'm a dev. Myself and have been in dating industry for a while now.

For me the most important thing was to have a SIMPLE dating site with min. Amount of features and nice uncluttered pages design. So here is the gorgerous thing about Skadate- you can REMOVE/rearrange/add things easily if you follow the logic.

1. most of the features are done as plugins.
In other scripts I had to dig into core files to get things removed and then had to pray that this did not break something else of the site. Simple "deactivate" to remove feature completely does the trick in Skadate. Removed forum, groups, slideshow and around 10 more plugins and guess what? Site was still up and running!)))

2.the most important dating features are done as plugins as well. That is being User Search and Matchmaking. I left those active on my site BUT did a bunch of modifications. And here comes what I loved the most: SOURCE CODE of those plugins ( and as I have found out later the whole software) is following single logic/pattern/strucutre!

After contacting their support I got general guidilens on what to do and where and what NOT to do. Taking more with VERY HELPFUL support staff I realized that you can actually fetch components of other plugins into any page. So I "imported" several additional components from Bookmarks and some other plugins into search page.

I set user search as a landing one for my site since after all the mods it gives a visitor quick glimpse of all my site can offer + calls for an action ( do a search). By the way, setting a new landing page turned out to be a thing you can do via admin panel. GOOD STUFF!

3. last but not least - creating new pages with custom content turned out to be easy as well. I even created a plugin based on standard plugin structure the guys at Skadate gave me. Contact me in private if you want to see the code.

Sorry for rambling, but Im seriously impressed with this script. You can do anything you want with it and they help you a lot too. Thanks!

I have had this software for about 4 years. I was great and first and then troublesome, mostly speed. I have 8 core and 8 gigs of ram. They address every single issue I had and it is pretty much trouble-free. I have paid for most of the other similar available software and the troublesome issues never got resolved.

This is now generating some funds more than the expenses.

I recommend this for niche markets. My site is www.adventistdating.com and it works well, lots of success stories. Have about 20,000 members. That is a sample of a niche, it could be any group.

As I said, all major issues fixed, would recommend this for those who want to generate some income and serve your niche.

They have good script, good help, and they did installation for me on their hosting. Also logo and background change and initial app customization. Basically ready for launch expat site in Georgia, so happy with everything so far. Recommended for starting with smaller budget. Thanks.

Writing this as a developer creating sites on demand. Have great cooperation with Skadate going back a few years. Started with a single license under Master and went on to get several more licenses for different sites, including the latest version. Always had only positive experience, even when hit trouble with Arvixe hosting. Considering getting a personal manager for my next client, this should improve communication due to different time zones (Canada). Overall, the best service among others (installation, updates, etc.).

I have used skadate for at lest 5 yrs. Spent thousands and made no money, I have two web sites.
I have spent so much money in support/sites/apps/ web developers. I have wasted money with Skadate Seo support that was just a waste of money no effect ( felt; ike i was scammed totally with the seo. When complained they didnt care they had my money and that was that. The money and time I have spent with his company is very sad. I 14 thousand unhappy members on my dating site. Complete waste of time/money. Very disappointing. You would think Skadate would want there there clients to make money. I wonder if anyone other than Skadate are making money. I know in 5 years i haven't.
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