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Parship Review

Testing, percentages and weighing up the odds of compatibility lie at the heart of this site for anyone seeking a serious relationship.

Parship takes great pride in its compatibility matching – in order to evaluate your characteristics in a truly thorough fashion, everyone has to take a free psychometric test upon joining. The test takes about 15 minutes and will analyse your personality, behaviour, attitudes and values so you’ll have a better chance of finding someone you really match with.

Creating your Parship profile

What is really great about Parship is how pleasant they have made the usual tedious profile-creating process. You start off with a 15 minute personality test – then you put together your profile, which has been made relatively easy for you with less things to come up for yourself and more ideas and tips handed to you on a plate. We all know that when it comes to profile-creating it is always the hardest thing to come up with a really original and funny description of yourself. You don’t want to sound lame either so you just spend ages working it… and at the end of it you’re still not happy.  Well, there’s no need to worry about that in Parship! They will do most of the hard work for you.

Some people are reluctant when it comes to posting their photo on an online dating site. Parship has thought about them as well – your uploaded photos appear in a blurry preview format, so it only gives an impression of what you look like. You can then release your proper photo to a contact if you want her/him to see it clearly – but remember, that also means it’s harder to stand out and be memorable. Basically it means that Parship is not a site for those who are just looking for some easy fun and flirting – this is a page for those who are serious about relationships, who actually want to find someone they can connect with in meaningful and lasting way.

There's a 78% chance you're going to hit it off

Upon joining (and completing the Parship test) the system automatically creates a list of suggested partners for every user. It will constantly be renewed as well, so you can keep up to date with the new users on the site. All the contacts are presented with a little percentage icon next to their name, indicating your compatibility score, thus helping the selection process. You can then view your test results in comparison with every single user on the site, which is really helpful when all you want is to find a real soulmate.

Every profile comes with a little “rate this partner” tool where you get to note down for yourself whether you find this person interesting or not. You can then make notes on the match – privately, of course – which makes it easier to remember the essential details about him or her. It actually makes more sense than you might think as you’d be surprised how hard it is to remember details about someone if you have actually never seen their photo!

Searching on Parship

Your search criteria gets saved the first time you join the site, so you don’t need to repeat it ever again – if new people who match your partner preferences join the site, they will automatically appear in your suggested partners list. However, should you want to look for someone else for a change, you can just change the search criteria and perform a new search. In addition to the UK, you can also search for users from some other European countries.

That said – the search itself is maybe a little hard to find. There’s no straightforward “search” button on your homepage, you’ll find it under “partner profiles” where there’s a link to your search criteria. From all that you can definitely tell this isn’t a site for just killing time and mucking about in the online dating scene – this is for people who mean serious business!

If you like someone on Parship, you can send them a “smile” or an Icebreaker – which is a mini-multiple-choice-quiz, a really fun and cool way how to get in touch, plus it helps you find out whether you and the potential date are on the same wavelength. Another nice touch is you can agree on a fun forfeit you can do if you answer all the questions the same. Or, if you want to just skip that stage you can immediately move to emailing and just contact the person straight up.

When it comes to extras, Parship won’t really offer you any of the instant messaging, audio/video chat options – but it does give you the free personality test with a detailed 60 page report plus all the comparisons between you and your possible dates, so that’s definitely a great extra.

Free singles coaching advice for Parship members

This is something we haven't seen offered on any other dating sites so far - a welcome option to talk with a singles coach and receive advice and feedback on your compatibility test results and personality profile and other dating related advice and tips. As a Parship member you'll get access to freephone number (Sundays 1am-1pm) or by email anytime - where you can talk to Dr Nafsika Thalassis, a researcher with a special interest in psychiatry, for a confidential and friendly discussion.

Free vs paid site

With the free membership you’ll get to take the famous Parship test and see your results, plus obviously create a profile, upload a photo and both send and receive smiles, “icebreakers”, contact requests and even make some comments on their profiles. You can receive contact requests, but not read them. While you can upload a photo and even release it to other members, you won’t be able to view other people’s photos unless you pay.

With a full 6 month Premium membership Parship will also give you a 'contact guarantee' – a guarantee of a minimum of ten contacts or another six months free.

Pros and Cons

The personality test is fun and making contact is really easy and well thought out.
Can become a bit of a blur with all the blurry photos…