Date Cards
How Date Cards Help Make First Dates Safer
Skip Date Cards help turn a connection into a safer first date by guiding the other person through your required safety steps on Skip, including background checks, boundary deal breakers, and profile verification, age verification and ID review before you agree to go on a date.
How Do Skip Date Cards Work
Skip offers both Digital and Physical Date Cards to help turn connections into safer first dates.
Digital Date Cards: give you a safer way to plan a first date, no matter where the connection started, whether on a dating app, social media, through friends, over text, or in person. Send someone you’re interested in your Digital Date Card, and they’ll receive a Skip Date Invite where they can view your profile and like you if they’re interested. If you like them back, it’s a match. From there, they complete any deal breaker and background check requirements you’ve enabled before they can propose a date.
Physical Date Cards: If you see someone in person you’re interested in getting to know, hand them a Date Card instead of sharing your number. The card sends them to your Skip profile, where they can like you if they’re interested. If you like them back, it’s a match. From there, they complete any deal breakers and background check requirements you’ve enabled before they can propose a date.
A typical flow looks like this:
- Send someone a Digital Date Card or hand them a Physical Date Card in person.
- They visit your Skip profile and like your profile.
- You are notified, review their profile, and like them back to create a match.
- They pass your deal breakers at 100 percent
- They complete and pass a background check (including age verification and ID review)
- They propose a date
- You confirm a time and location or suggest a new one
- Go on the date
- Leave anonymous reviews
Skip Date Cards can help empower you to take your dating life into your own hands by bringing more structure and safety into the process. Date cards work anywhere in the USA, so you are not limited to only using them in cities where Skip already has a larger online presence.
A Lower-Pressure Way to Show Interest
Physical Date Cards
Asking for someone’s phone number in the moment can feel intimidating or awkward. A Skip Date Card gives you a simpler, lower-pressure way to express interest without needing to worry about how to approach them or how they might respond in the moment. It can be as simple as leaving a card somewhere they can easily find it, or walking up, saying hello, and handing it to them.
Date Cards can also feel lower pressure for the person receiving them. Instead of having to respond on the spot, they can decide on their own time whether they want to follow through and pursue a date with you.
Digital Date Cards
A Digital Date Card gives you a simpler, lower-pressure way to express interest when a connection has already started, whether on another dating app, social media, through friends, over text, or in person. It lets you catch their attention with a unique card and intro message that feels different from another typical DM, giving you a more personal and memorable way to show interest.
The person receiving your Digital Date Card can check out your Skip profile on their own time and decide whether they want to connect. Sending your Digital Date Card is only an invitation to connect through Skip.
How Date Cards Work with Skip’s Safety Features
Skip Date Cards are designed to bring Skip’s safety tools into any connections no matter where they started, so the same safety steps can still apply before a first date.
That can include:
- Deal breakers, which help communicate boundaries and filter out people who do not pass your standards before a first date
- Background checks, which can help reduce risk by adding an extra screening step before someone moves toward an in-person date.
- Profile verification, which helps confirm the person using the profile appears to match the profile photos
- Date reviews, which add accountability after the date and help Skip identify unsafe behavior over time
Date Cards Are One Part of Safer First Dates
Digital and Physical Date Cards can help make any connections safer, more intentional, and more private, but they are only one part of what can help make first dates safer. They work best alongside Skip’s other safety tools, like deal breakers, profile verification, age verification, ID review, background checks, date reviews, and practical precautions like meeting in public places and sharing your date details with someone you trust.
Even if a connection starts offline, behavior still matters. If someone pressures you, ignores your boundaries, or makes you feel uncomfortable, take that seriously.
For more practical guidance before, during, and after a date, see our Dating Safety Tips guide.
