Our philosophy is to give our customers 100% control of their network, including their visual layout, functionality, and - most importantly - their content. Many other social network providers and community-building tools retain your users' data on their servers, preventing you from migrating to another service or leveraging your own community's content for advertising. Conversely, SocialEngine is hosted on your own server where you have complete control over every aspect of your community.

We want your new social network to offer something unique. Out of the box, SocialEngine gives you a simple, unbranded network that you can customize in absolutely any way. This lets you get right to deplying your unique theme, social structure, or new social concept using our source code as a foundation. Our platform is truly "white label", meaning we do not display any branding, company logos, or "powered by" text whatsoever. We will never charge you to add your own logo and branding to your community, and sincerely encourage you to do so!

We actively encourage our users to customize their social networks in any way. We provide the complete source code for SocialEngine making it simple to add or integrate any features. We've gone to great lengths to make SocialEngine incredibly easy for you to work with and customize. The source code is thoroughly commented to help you understand every stage of the PHP code. We also provide fully commented HTML templates for every single page of your social network, including global header/footer templates and an organized CSS stylesheet.

When you have a novel idea for a new social network or online community, we know that you want to get started right away. This is why we provide you with a download link immediately after your purchase. Our system is designed to get your social network up and running as quickly as possible; after our easy installation, your new social network site is ready to go! You can immediately begin signing up users or purchase additional third-party mods and templates.

Our Pasadena-based team of experienced developers and designers are constantly growing and improving SocialEngine. We regularly release software updates including both bug fixes, feature enhancements, and new plugins for the platform. We also have a growing community of third-party developers that are building and selling their own modifications for SocialEngine.