SkaDate

As stated I would add to the update if things changed. Since my first review over a year ago the Skadate team has been helpful and responsive. There has been a few additional plugins made by developers. Additionally Skadate also made a few custom modifications which were delivered on time and worked as agreed. As before, I will add to this over time.

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!

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

I have used them (previous versions...) and don't like it too much. I think it's too complicated to customize. It took me days to figure things out, maybe I am not super-expert in php programming but I could easily customize wordpress. Anyway, can't really compare orange and apple but overall I am not too happy about it.

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.

Skadate is a good solution for beginners but you'll have to make some compromise. You get a whole system that supports pc and mobile. But most functions in mobile are disabled and many 3rd party plugins don't support mobile version. Some elementary things are missing. There are no smileys in core and the only smiley plugin costs 30USD and is not updated to the newest core version.
Skadate is a good solution for small dating websites. But if you want to make big business, you must invest money for development and maintenance because most suggestions are ignored by skadate and you have many bugs if you use too much plugins. But you need so much 3rd party plugins because the core software is missing so much functionality. And many plugin developers don't support their own plugins. Individual development is expensive and you must invest again for updates. One example is video uploading. The core software doesn't support video uploading. You can just add videos from video websites like youtube. There is just one 3rd pay plugin for video upload but it just upload mp4 videos and has many bugs. You don't get any support by the developer. Skadate doesn't help you because they are not responsible for 3rd party plugins. But they make ads for their product with these plugins.

Nevertheless the main functions are great and you can start with skadate your own business. The biggest advantage of skadate is the open source license. So you can customize your website at all but you must a be an expert or you should have money to hire experts.

I would give more stars for skadate if they were able to realize suggestions and understood, that basics functions are not enough for a successful business. And thez need a better system for plugin development a support.

I bought the skadate software with very little knowledge of how to manage, and it set up. The staff without any hesitation assisted me throughout the process, answered my question and even after my support has expired they continue to provide a helping hand with the issues I encounter. Very friendly staff, excellent customer service and tends to all the queries. Great job and thumbs up to you.

Great service, I searched for months and found that skadate had everything all in one package. Of course you need to upgrade if you need more products but I'm highly satisfied

I have been ramping up my site in which I purchased the template from skadate. I have been working with a project manager, Margareth, through this process thus far and I cant say enough good things about the support I've received and how user friendly the set-up part is for a non techy like myself. It's unique as it's not a "dating site" per say, however they have been great during this transition and getting me everything I've needed thus far. Let's hope this momentum and support keeps up! Thank you Margareth!

They resolved the issues with the apps.

The bigger issue is they need to resolve why they make apps in operatable while they do the needed updates for a newer version.

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.

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.).

Thank you for helping us started with the apps. First we chose to go full-mobile and wanted to build business like Tinder. We later changed to full scale dating site and apps, which what we should have done in the first place. Anyway, they went with us all the way through all the changes for which we are grateful.

I had been with SD for about 7 years. All fine until they changed their software and existing users had to change over to their new OxWall platform. The migration across was free but I had to pay lots for additional features just to get back the features I had before. As soon as the migration went ahead it was a clusterf**k. My site was down for 3 weeks (only meant to be 5 days at most!). Then the site just wouldn't load quickly and would time out so members couldn't access the site. They spent months saying it was our hosting, when we knew it wasn't, our server wasn't even breaking into a sweat. They wouldn't tell us the server settings, so after reluctantly allowing them access they conceded it was them. They blamed it on a message plugin, said they resolved it, but they hadn't. They then just stopped answering my support tickets. I had the personal number of one of the engineers so I could message when it went down as they needed to check in real time what the issue was. Well nothing, no email replies and no text replies, nothing for two months. Luckily I had decided to move platforms and two month later moved to my current supplier (who btw get a lot of ex SD customers coming to them). It was an easy migration, no problems. Don't know why I didn't kick SD into touch years ago. Skadate cost me 9 months of hell and I lost a great deal of time and money, not to mention hair! SD make out they are based in US, but they are based in some former Russian republic, Kazakhstan I think. Don't touch these people, there are much better dating scripts out there, and ones with excellent support. I'm not going to list the one I moved to in case I am accused of being a competitor, I'm not, I was a genuine SD customer and can prove it. My new platform is great, better functionality, better looks, their customer support is second to none, and the software hasn't missed a beat since I migrated across. They have a forum where other customers can talk about their businesses and offer advice. SD don't do that, they used to but closed it down, I wonder why?! So please if you value your sanity don't go near SD, I still get the shakes when I think I nearly lost my business because of them. PTSD - Post Traumatic Skadate Disorder! Oh and one more thing, funny how all their latest reviews on here are 5 star, not genuine reviews I think!

Nice script with an ability to get third party gateway integrations.
By default I got PayPal and CCBill out of box.
Was granted a bonus gateway as a gift on pre-sales stage.
Then ordered 2 more gateways for about $40 from other developers.
Will not be using CCBill, but 3 other gateways are working well. Received first payments last week.

The Skadate support staff are excellent in helping you with unique customizations in your website code to make your Skadate dating website more competitive. The support staff follow through the next day and provide you with complete information on the steps they made to complete the improvements.
If you want a great dating site that is backed up by excellent support staff, then go with Skadate

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!

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.

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!

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.

I would like to say a very BIG thank you to all the staff at Skadate, (Sabrina, Linda, Ross). They have always been there to support me no matter what I ask and I'm very grateful. I consider after sales support to be the most important aspect. Skadate don't just sell you the software and leave the rest to you, they are there with you all the way. I recommend Skadate to anyone.

So far Skadate has been good to me. They do install for you, Great templates vs the price they're asking for them and the Admin panel is awesome. I do understand the other review in reference to not being easy to customize due to html, css code etc. and if you're not experienced in that you do have to either pay skalfa to do it or find someone that knows how. This is only if you want to modify the available template(s). Other than that I look forward to my PeeDee site to make a hell of a lot of money for me and my family

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.