It takes less than a minute to create a member login, and the free register process will provide access to search profiles straight away.
To create a dating profile you need to plow through seven separate sections of profile questions. After uploading photos, you must specify details of your appearance, before answering questions about your perfect match. This covers everything from their physical attributes to their background and cultural values. Where religion is concerned, there are options for any, religious, not religious or very religious, so unlike some Christian dating sites, which can be very insular, at least ChristianCupid is open to the idea of non-Christians being welcomed into the fold when it comes to matching.
Next are questions about your interests – music, food, sport, entertainment. Following this is a heading ‘Edit Personality Profile,' where you are invited to fine-tune your interests in order to present a more definitive picture of your personality. What is your favorite book? How adaptive are you to having a partner from a different culture to your own? And so on.
Finally, you can add ‘Cupid Tags', which appear to be personality traits, and then you are asked to verify your identity by showing your passport, driving license or national ID card.
The site's basic plan entitles you to profile creation. Other free features include uploading photos, basic matching, the ability to show interest in other ChristianCupid clients, as well as blocking or reporting users whose conduct has bothered you.
By adopting the premium plan you can message anyone, add comments to photos, adopt what is known as ‘incognito mode', and can highlight profiles. As well as gaining access to more advanced search features you won't be pestered by ads.
The costs are tiered. Gold membership starts at £24.99 per month (for one month), £16.66 per month (for three months) and £8.33 per month (for one year.)
Platinum membership starts at £29.98 per month (for one month), £19.99 per month (for three months) and £10.00 per month (for one year.)
How to search on ChristianCupid? To search the profiles, you have various parameters to choose from. An advanced search allows you to specify gender, age group, search by city/state or by country if you are open to international relationships. Again, there are exhaustive options, drilling down to whether they are the youngest child, are they smokers, languages spoken, body art, religious values, and so on. You can search under keywords, such as ‘blonde,' by member number, or by popular searches. The latter breaks down into my matches, new members, latest photos, most popular and in my area.
How to delete your ChristianCupid account? Use the member help service, where you'll be given access to Account Management. Click on the link presented, where you will be taken to a page to enter your password and a drop-down box containing reasons for leaving. Your account will be switched off. You are then invited to supply feedback.
As far as dating sites exclusive to a particular religious faith or sect are concerned, ChristianCupid is a good starting point for singles eager to embrace the convenience of online matching. It is well laid out and contains a number of interesting features to captivate clients.
There are what are known as Cupid Tags, which are a specialized search feature allowing you to add certain terms to your profile. This is really a shortcut which will enable interested parties to interact with you much quicker than having to trawl through the more conventional search options.
The site is also strong on member verification, with a request to present one of three traditional forms of ID. For anyone who is nervous about the people they might actually end up interacting with, even on a supposed Christian dating site, this tier of security is obviously welcomed.
Overall, the site is user-friendly, and even the limited functionality offered by the free membership allows a certain amount of activity to be embarked on, prior to deciding if you wish to proceed with a monthly subscription. Signing up is a straightforward process, and although the profile creation presents a somewhat laborious set of questions to be tackled, arranged in numerous subject headings, it is surely better to gain a completely rounded picture of newcomers. In this way, you have a far better chance of being matched with someone appropriate than if you skim through these queries in your impatience to get started with searching for a potential partner.
Although the site is ostensibly for Christians, unlike other sites which seem unduly focused on introducing individuals of one particular denomination, thus alienating a huge swathe of prospective partners, ChristianCupid is less rigid in the type of daters it is encouraging to interact on this platform.
The gold and platinum yearly memberships are £8.33 and £10.00 (per month) respectively, which places ChristianCupid in the moderate field where subscriptions are concerned. As stated, the current three-months' free membership allows newbies to get a feel of the site before committing.