Jeevansathi.com Indian matrimonials

Jeevansathi.com is a matrimonial web site run by Info Edge, the same people who run Naukri.com . Jeevansathi claims to have more than 200,000 photo profiles across 34 communities and 254 castes. Initial membership with Jeevansathi.com is free and takes a few minutes. You need to have atleast a free membership to be able to view profiles on Jeevansathi.com. The profile sign up works similar to most other matrimonial web sites. You need to specify your details, describe yourself and the sort of person you're looking for.

Jeevansathi has a large database of profiles including Maharashtrian, South Indian, Punjabi, Sindhi, Bengali, Gujarathi, Catholic, Sikh and Muslim prospective brides and grooms.

You can add multiple pictures to your profile and this is in fact recommended to boost the response. Photo profiles on Jeevansathi.com as on most other matchmaking sites ensure a much better response.

Jeevansathi.com has a powerful search feature using which you can bring up profiles which meet your requirements. You can use their 'Quick Search' option or the 'Advanced Search' option. With the quick search option you can locate members, filtering them by gender, height, age, city, community, religion/caste and marital status. You can specify if you want to view only photo profiles.

With their advanced search members, in addition to the quick search criterion you can filter profiles by occupation, qualifications, city, country and even diet! Exclude non vegetarians if you want to! You can sort profiles by freshness, so new profiles come up higher on the list.

You can also save custom searches giving them a specific name so you don't have to specify the entire criterion each time. Just click on your saved search and see the results, with the new members included. You can add profiles to your 'favorites' list within Jeevansathi and view them later. This is a help if someone else is doing all the soulmate searching for you and wants to save profiles for you to see later.

You're provided statistics for your profile. This tells you how many people have viewed your profile. If you know the profile ID of an existing Jeevansathi member you can look up the profile quickly. Profile IDs are case sensitive. You can also see a list of members currently online.

Based on the criterion for your partner you specify, you can get a list of Jeevansathi members who may meet your requirement by clicking on their 'Members I'm looking for' option.

When you upgrade from the free membership, Jeevansathi.com has two membership options, the eValuePack and the eRishta. With the eValuePack you can send instant messages to other members, initate chat and view the contact details of members who have accepted you or those you have accepted. You can receive personal messages from members too. With the eRishta pack, you can do most of this. You can't receive personalized messages or let other people view your contact details, however. The eValuePack is more expensive at Rs.4100 per year as compared to Rs.2500 a year for the eRishta pack but it has the advantage of letting other members view your contact details. You can specify what you would like people to see when they have your contact details.

Jeevansathi.com also provides free discount coupons from several merchants including jewelery merchants such as Adora, Carbon, Tanishq and online retailers like Rediff and Travel Mart India.

Overall, Jeevansathi.com is a well trafficked matrimonials web site and we recommend that you start off with a free profile on it.