Customize your dating service
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Orders
Process, manage, and fulfill existing orders and draft new orders.
- Customers - Learn how to manage web app usersManage members from the admin panel: create and edit profiles, block or delete users, add funds or membership, and set up email confirmation, approval and activity in search.
- Virtual currency: sell coins instead of subscriptionsSell coins instead of subscriptions: members top up a balance and spend it on messages, gifts and boosts. How to price the packs and use coins alongside memberships.
- Multiple domains on one database: cover several audiences without splitting your membersRun several domain names on one database: different audiences, countries and niches, all sharing the same members instead of five empty sites.
- Access to member correspondence: reading private messages for safetyRead the messages members send each other, from the admin panel. When it is worth it, what to set up legally first, and cheaper tools to try before it.
- Memberships: charge for access with pricing plans and membership groupsCharge for access to parts of your site: create membership groups with their own prices and periods, limit what guests see, and offer a free trial that converts.
- Advertising on your dating site: banners, member ads and ad networksThree ways to earn from ads: your own advertisers, banners your members pay for, and ad networks. Plus how to price them and avoid killing your paid memberships.
- Accept payments on your dating site: connect a gateway, take offline transfers, approve ordersSwitch on a payment gateway with your merchant details, or take bank and cash transfers by hand, and approve incoming payments from one list.
- Site currency: which money members pay in and how prices are shownPick the one currency members pay in and how the amounts look. Only one can be active at a time, and changing it converts money already on accounts.
- Paid services: how to charge members for visibility on your dating siteSix built-in ways to charge members for visibility and access — featured carousel, top of search, highlighting, stealth browsing, paid signup — plus add-ons and pricing advice.
- Promo offers: run limited-time deals on top-ups, memberships and paid servicesRun time-limited promo offers on your dating site: bonus credit on top-ups, free extra months on memberships, and discounts on paid services.
Billing system and Payments
Manage how your customers pay for your services and set up Dating Pro Payments
- Setting up success URL, failure URL and result URLYour payment provider asks for three addresses when you connect it. Here is what each one does and how to build the one that confirms payments automatically.
- Taxes and Business StructureRegister your dating business and handle sales tax: sole proprietorship, partnership or LLC, and why you need a tax adviser in your own country.
- How to find your PayPal merchant ID for dating site payment integrationFind PayPal merchant/seller ID: required for Dating Pro payment setup
- Guide to Setting Up Twilio, CCBill with FlexForms, Stripe, and Accepting Payments OnlineStep-by-step setup for SMS verification with Twilio and for accepting payments with CCBill FlexForms and Stripe subscription plans.
- Payment systemsComparative table of payment systems
Analytics
Is located in the 4 Market section > 4.2. Analytics
- How to Estimate the Value of Your Dating Business for FreeIf you own a dating platform and want to estimate its market value without hiring expensive financial consultants, here are the most effective and low-cost methods.
- What went into a dating app's $3M pitch deck, and where to read itA short breakdown of the sixteen-slide deck a US dating app used to raise three million dollars, with a link to the full original on Business Insider.
System
Platform
- Add a moderator: extra admin accounts with limited accessGive someone limited access to your admin panel so they can moderate content without seeing payments or settings you would rather keep to yourself.
- Audio uploads: let members add voice clips and music to their profileLet members upload voice clips and music to their profile and wall: set the size limit and allowed formats, and see how the player looks to them.
- Comments: switch them on or off section by section, and set the rulesDecide where members can leave comments, whether guests can post, whether likes are on, and how long a comment may be.
- Countries, regions and cities: set the locations members can choose fromInstall only the countries and regions you actually target, add missing ones by hand, translate their names, and pin the most popular to the top of the list.
- Scheduled tasks: the jobs that send your emails and tidy up the site automaticallyThe background jobs that keep your site running: sending queued emails, expiring paid services, updating statistics, building the sitemap. Change the timings only if you must.
- Events: run offline meetups and singles nights from your dating siteGive members a reason to meet in person: create public or invite-only meetups with a venue, time and guest limit, or let members create their own.
- Custom Search and User ProfilesSystem : Field editor
- Message attachments: file size limit and which file types members can sendControl the files members can attach to messages: maximum size and which file types are allowed. Out of the box only mailbox attachments are switched on.
- Tips and stories: put short how-to hints on any page of your siteAdd tip buttons and swipeable stories to any page, for members or for your own admins, to explain a feature right where people need it.
- Display settings: profiles per page, date format and how location is shownSmall settings that change how your site reads: how many profiles per page, how dates are written, and how a member's location is shown.
- Add-ons management: switch features on and off, update versions, add languagesSwitch add-ons on and off, remove and reinstall them, run version updates, add site languages, and restrict access by IP while you are still building.
- Member ratings: let people rate each other and photos from one to five starsMembers give each other and their photos one to five stars, and the highest rated appear on a Top members page. You can rename the star labels.
- Grow your dating site through your own members: invites, bonuses and referralsLet members bring in new people and pay them a bonus for it: how invites work, how much to pay, how to stop abuse, and which referral add-ons go further.
- Icebreaker questions (Questions): help members start talkingMembers break the ice by asking each other questions, from your ready-made list or their own. Legacy module, included in packages up to Oasis 2022.
- Picture greetings (Kisses): a one-tap way for members to get noticedMembers send each other little picture greetings to get noticed and start talking. You upload the images. Legacy module, included in packages up to Oasis 2022.
- Daily horoscopes: zodiac readings that give members a reason to come backGive members zodiac descriptions and daily or weekly horoscopes, added by hand or pulled in from an RSS feed. Legacy module, included in packages up to Oasis 2022.
- Site polls (Polls): ask visitors a question and show how they votedAsk visitors and members a question on the site and see how they vote, in every site language. Legacy module, included in packages up to Oasis 2022.
- Abandoned signups: find the people who almost joined and bring them backSee who started registering and never finished, with the email they typed. What to write to bring them back, and what the list tells you about your signup form.
- Photo settings: sizes, formats and thumbnails for avatars, galleries and wall imagesSet the size, format and thumbnails for every picture on your site: avatars, gallery photos, wall images and virtual gifts.
- Watermarks: put your mark on member photosStamp your name or logo onto member photos so other sites cannot lift them without credit. Works on pictures, not on video.
- Who your members are: gender and other user types they pick at signupSet who your members can be and who they look for — woman, man, couple, anything you name. Create them all before you open signups, changing them later loses people…
- Video calls between members: built-in video chat, third-party providers, and paying by the secondSet up video calls between members: the built-in chat with pay-per-second billing, third-party providers including Twilio, and what your server needs.
- Member videos: size limits, formats and what your server needsSet what video members can upload and where: maximum file size, allowed formats, and the server codecs needed to play it back.
- Activity feed: show members what others are doing on your siteThe activity feed that shows what members are doing: new photos, wall posts, new friendships. Choose which actions appear and how long they stay.
- System : Widgets : Featured users widget
- System : Widgets : New users widget
- System : Widgets : Selected users widget
- System : Widgets : Chat invitation widget
- Database structure and connections
- Configuration filesconfig.php
- Where I can find my order key while installing the site?Installation asks for an order key. Here is where to find it in the site root folder on your hosting, and where to paste it to continue.
- Change your site title: what people see in the browser tab and in search resultsChange the name shown in the browser tab and in search results, for the home page and for every other page of your site.
- How to change texts on the siteEdit almost any wording on your site yourself from the admin panel: find the phrase, change it, save. HTML tags are allowed if you want formatting.
- DockerDocker-compose file to launch the entire infrastructure in Docker.
- PHP development environment based on DockerThis guide is tailored for the Dating Pro-based product.
- How to install and launch your dating platform in 2026: setup guide, checklist, and timelinesLaunch your dating website in 1-2 days, mobile apps in 7-14 days. Step-by-step installation, pre-launch checklist, system requirements for web, iOS, Android, Telegram.
- Hosting: four levels, what each one handles and what it costsWhere your site lives: four hosting levels from twelve dollars a month upwards, what each handles, and what happens if you stop paying.
- Landing pages: send each advert to a page built for that audienceSend paid traffic to pages built for one audience instead of your home page: uploading or connecting a landing, wiring up the signup form, and what belongs on the page.
- Terms of use, privacy policy, about us and the copyright line: edit your site's text pagesWrite and edit the text pages every site needs — terms of use, privacy policy, about us — and put your own copyright line at the bottom.
- Member notifications and email alerts: welcome emails, new message alerts, newslettersHow to send email notifications to site users, configure SMTP settings, create email templates, subscriptions and newsletters.
- News section: write your own posts or pull them in from an RSS feedPublish your own articles in the site news section, or pull them in automatically from someone else's feed. Each article gets its own address and search tags.
- Sign up with Facebook or Google: social login and share buttonsLet people sign up with Facebook, Google and other accounts, and add share buttons to your pages. Each network needs its own key from you.
- How to restore the administrator password?Locked out of your admin panel? Reset the password yourself through your hosting control panel and the site database, or ask us in live chat.
- Соблюдение требований политик Роскомнадзор (РКН)Вопросы и ответы
- Just bought Dating Pro? Here's your launch checklist 2026 — go live in 48 hoursLaunch your dating platform in 1-2 days: complete setup guide 2026 with pre-launch checklist
- Video tutorialsShort videos showing the first things owners change: logo, favicon, main image and text, billing setup, access permissions and paid services.
- Level 0: How do I modify the main page of my dating site? Logo, banners, and texts.Change everything on your home page after installation: logo, main banner and smaller pictures, all the texts, app store buttons and the copyright line.
- Design your dating site: logo, colours and themes you set yourself, or a custom look we build for youChange your logo, colours and fonts yourself in the admin panel, or order a design made for your brand — from a single landing page to a full custom look.
- Level 0: set up your site's look yourself — logo, colours, fonts, home page and landing pagesEverything you can change yourself at Level 0: logo, favicon, colours, fonts, the built-in home page and landing pages — plus how to add your own landing page without ordering…