When you register for your account, be ready to provide the following information to obtain your member login:
Zip code
Gender/What User is Seeking
Password
Birthdate
First name
“About You”
Photo
You can use your mobile login for your Facebook app to make your registration a little faster, allowing for you to import your photos from Facebook to your profile for a quick and easy process.
When you’ve registered for your account, you’ve already filled out 12% of your profile and the rest need to be filled in for a more accurate dating profile. While it contains profile questions similar to other dating sites, it also contains LDS specific categories and forms such as your mission status, Church activity and Temple status.
There’s a variety of personality questions for you to fill in the details to give users that view your profile the ability to get a sense of who you are. While these can sometimes be a pain to fill out, they’re incredibly handy for your potential matches and it’s likely you’ll get as much use out of other people’s answers, too.
Additionally, there’s a section that allows you to select up to four “Message Ideas” from your personality questions to feature them alongside your photo on your profile to give people any interested users a topic to start a conversation with via message. Choose carefully! Some message ideas may inspire interesting ice breakers and others may result in receiving the same message over and over again.
Without purchasing the premium plan, you’ll have some features locked on your account with the basic plan. This includes non-free features like sending, reading and replying to messages; seeing who has looked at your profile recently, seeing which users who have flirted with you, and seeing all of the users that have “fave’d” you.
The pricing system works in that you either you have a subscription or you don’t, and the choice you make is only one to save money. Full price is a one-time payment of $16.99 for one month of service. The Standard Plan is a one-time payment of $36.97 for three months of service, approximately $12.32 per month. The Best Value Plan is a one-time payment of $53.94 for six months of service, includes the additional “Profile Highlight” feature, and comes out to be $8.99 per month when evenly divided.
Be warned that when you select the automatic renewal option for payments, you cannot turn it off and will need to delete and recreate your account.
Since the only way you’ll be able to contact anyone in order to get to know one another is by messaging them, this means the free accounts are all but useless.
When searching for matches on LDS Planet, you can filter users by age, distance, account activity, “newness” to the website, and by who is currently online. Additionally, a more advanced search provides you with options to further filter the results using keywords, which can teach out how to use LSD Planet’s search as you go. For instance, you can search by city or search by username.
When you search mobile apps for similar feature, they appear in apps like Tinder’s layout as a series of profiles that you have the option to say, “No, Next Profile” or “Yes, Next Profile.” Choosing “Yes” automatically sends them a flirt, a message that says you’re interested in them.
Every day, the website will match you up with five other users it thinks you’re compatible with based on the information you provide in your profile, so it’s extra important that you have a one hundred percent complete profile with everything answered and filled out so they’ll begin messaging you.
Whenever you add them as a “fave” (think of it like bookmarking a profile), they’ll be able to see this. On the flip side, so will you when someone else “faves” you. Lastly, look to the help page if you’re still confused on how to message someone on LDS Planet.
How to cancel your LDS Planet account? Unfortunately, the only way to cancel an automatic renewal is to delete your account.
To delete your account, go to “My Account” to “Account Status” and then select “Other Account Status Changes” and find the link “Remove My Profile.” You’ll then be asked to answer why you’re leaving and given an optional chance to elaborate on why.
Perhaps because you need to cancel your account to cancel your subscription, once you’ve removed your profile, you’ll be sent to a page that gives you the option to reactivate your account instantaneously.
If you’re willing to pay a bit, this can be a fine platform for finding the love of your life. Just be careful about the fact you’ll have to cancel your account if ever you need to stop the payments, such as going steady with someone you found on LDS Planet, not having the extra money to spend on a dating site, or even if you don’t think this particular dating site is helping you.