Fees at Consonance – Our Unique Fee Model for Inclusive Online Dating
“In a world where money rules, you should not be alone but make fairness possible together.”
Fees for Your Online Dating
Our fees at Consonance (Gleichklang) are based on a unique model that achieves the following goals:
- every member is a premium member
- there are no free spam profiles
- we are ad-free
- participation at Consonance never fails due to financial constraints
This is what our fee model looks like (current price list):
- as a rule, we expect our members to choose one of the standard rates
- for those who would find this financially difficult, we offer discounted rates
- for people in acute financial hardship, we offer a special social rate of only 6 EUR per year
Depending on the booked rate, the membership lasts indefinitely and can be cancelled monthly, or a discounted minimum participation period of one or two years is booked. After the end of this period, it transitions into an indefinite participation period with a monthly cancellation notice period, which is paid one year in advance (see also the current price list).
We always charge monthly fees after the fact, i.e., when a participation is cancelled or at the latest after one year. This allows us to reduce the administrative burden and failed direct debits that would occur with monthly billing.
We avoid free teaser offers with severely restricted functionality, whose goal is to recruit members for very expensive premium offers. Instead, all our members are premium. Our standard rate is approximately 5 times more affordable than the premium fees of the market leaders. The use of the entire platform with all its functions, including support from the support team, is already included in the membership fee.
The majority of revenues are invested in the further development and promotion of our meeting community.
Everyone should be willing to contribute to participation at Consonance (Gleichklang) and thereby enable the operation of this platform while simultaneously ensuring that our community is not overrun by picture collectors, jokers, and spammers. Free offers in online dating attract such people almost magically. This applies not only to politics (fake news) but also to online dating (fake profiles) to an enormous extent.
By being willing to pay a fee, all members demonstrate the seriousness of their relationship search.
Conversely, all members of Consonance should and can have the legitimate feeling of being members of a dating platform that does not erect monetary barriers against people in financial need. The special discounted rate ensures that our claim is fulfilled. This special discounted rate is granted completely uncomplicated upon request by email to us.
The discounted rates are not cost-covering for us and should therefore only be chosen when necessary. Those with a regular income should pay the full standard rate, which the vast majority do. Those in financial hardship should equally naturally use the special social rate.
Our fee model allows us to consistently avoid advertising and not to flood our members with (generally) ethically questionable offers. In this way, we practice a fee model at Consonance that meets strict ethical standards and prevents any form of exclusion due to financial limitations.
To our knowledge, the structure of fees at Consonance (Gleichklang) is the only example of such an inclusive pricing model in the online dating market. Consonance thus belongs overall to the few companies whose offers are equally accessible to everyone in the same form.
