Why Free Registration is an Important Feature

Most online dating websites offer free registration so that you will get a good idea of what the site has to offer before you become a paying member. Free registration features are especially important because you can get a very good idea of what the site has to offer and what kind of members you will meet on the site. The more services the site allows you to try with a free registration, the better you will see what the site can offer when you become a paying member. A site that lets you try many of its services is a site that has confidence in what it has to offer, which means that it believes that once a new member tries the site and its services, she or he will become a member.

	Overall Score (1-10 Score)	Free Registration
Mate1	8.33
Match	7.50
True	7.50
SinglesNet	5.83
MatchMaker	5.00
Date	5.00
AmericanSingles	5.00
ChristianMingle	5.00
BlackSingles	5.00
eHarmony	2.50

While most of these dating websites require you to buy a paid subscription to be able to email another member, websites like True.com and Match.com allow you to try all the site’s features for a free trial- Match for 7 days and True for 3 days. While True does not mention this on its website, you actually earn points for taking the site’s many personality quizzes. These points extend your free trial, potentially up to a month and maybe more. You can see in your account how long your free trial has been extended, so you won’t be left in the dark.

Mate1 offers a $1.95 3-day full feature trial for men, but ladies, you may just want to sign up for Mate1 because it is completely free for women. Communicate with other members and have access to all the site’s features for no cost whatsoever. Mate1 wins the free membership category with 10 out of 13 possible points. True and Match are a close second with 9 out of 10 points apiece. Definitely worth an honorable mention for this category is Singlesnet.com, which allows non-paying members to email paying members. You may not get unlimited email with a free membership, but it’s better than not having the ability to email anyone without shelling out for a full subscription.

Features Reviewed for Free Registration

• Free Registration: If free registration is provided, it will get points dependent on what is provided during a free registration.
• Full Feature Trial: If the site offers a free feature trial, it will get maximum points. If it does not, it will not get the points.
• Free for Women: One of the reviewed dating websites is free for women. Whether you are a woman or a man, this information is still relevant to you. If you are a woman, you will not have to pay anything to access all of the site’s features. If you are a man, you will enjoy the good proportion of women as members. Women are usually misrepresented in dating websites, but this is not the case with free membership for women.
• Free to Flirt: This feature measures if the site lets its members flirt with other members as part of the free registration.
• Email Featured Members for Free: This feature measures if the site lets its members email other members with free registration.
• See Pictures for Free: This feature measures if the site lets its members see pictures of other members with free registration.

This is the raw data from which the results have been calculated. You will see in the first column how many maximum points a feature can earn. You will also see how many points each site received for each one of its features. For more information on how the results were calculated, go to “How results have been calculated”.