PG SocialBiz and PG Dating Pro are two products from PilotGroup.NET that have similar user panel designs but different functionalities. Some key differences include: 1) PG SocialBiz has a more consolidated administration panel layout while PG Dating Pro's is structured by frequency of use. 2) They integrate different payment gateways, with PG Dating Pro offering offline payment options. 3) PG SocialBiz allows creating virtual currencies and bonuses to boost user engagement, while PG Dating Pro has more advanced profile building.

1. Comparing Two Favorite Software
Products: PG Dating Proand PG SocialBiz
PG SocialBiz and PG Dating Pro are the two products of PilotGroup.NETCompany. They may have
similardesign in user panel, however there are some significant changes in the functionality that we
would like to tell you about.
1. Structure of administration panels
First of all take a look at the structure of administration panels. Some people find the
administration panel of social networking software (SocialBiz) to be more convenient, as all menu
items are there in one place and you can expand/collapse bigger items:

2. For other people the administration panel of dating site script (Dating Pro) is better because it is
structured by what you are going to need more often, and all settings that you will likely need once
or twice are one or two levels deeper:

3. 2. Consider different sets of integrated payment gateways:
Authorize.Net; PayPal; CCBill; E-gold; USAepay; WorldPay; Ogone; Webmoney; Allopass; PayPoint;
Yandex.Money; 2checkout; NMI and some others forSocialBiz and
Authorize.Net; PayPal; 2CheckOut; Webmoney; ROBOKASSA; Skrill/Moneybookers for Dating Pro.
In PG Dating Pro there is an offline/cheque payment option that lets the site owner accept cash or
wire transfers and so on.
3. In SocialBiz there is a virtual currency tool. You can create your own currency and give it any
name, which makes it easy to create a special community in your own world.
4. The Bonus systemof SocialBiz helps boost site members’ activity by encouraging them to upload
avatar and photos, come back to the site daily, pay for membership,and more.
5. Friendship requests.
In SocialBiz there is a Friends chain and a Friends circle. In both PG SocialBiz and PG Dating Pro you
should request permission to become friends with another person. Plus in Dating Pro you can view
all sent and received requests:

4. 6. Multimedia galleries
Both Dating Pro and SocialBizbased websites offer their members the opportunity to upload
multimedia content, such as photos, audio and video files. There are 3 types of multimedia galleries
and they look almost the same, with the photo gallery in Dating Pro being something quite special:
This is how the photo gallery in SocialBiz looks like:

5. 7.Private network functionality in PG SocialBiz solution makes it possible to create a closed
community and only accept members who you have sent invitation to, for examples all employees
of your company or all class members.
8. You can lend your PG SocialBiz site a touch of dating by switching on the Dating module. It adds
one more section to members’ profiles where they can indicate their hair colour, height and weight
and other personal parameters for better match search:

6. 9. Profile builder
PG Dating Pro goes further than that giving the site administrator a powerful profile builder tool.
With this tool you can create any new profile fields and add them into sign up form, quick search
and advanced search forms as well as use them for finding perfect matches:
10. Sign Up form.
SocialBiz can boast of a shorter and simpler sign up form which serves the idea of a network where
people’s primary goal is communicating and finding friends, business partners and so on, unlike
Dating Pro where people come to describe themselves and find matches going by such descriptions.
11. In SocialBiz there is an extended system of privacy settings:

7. 12. Gift store
Along with the real gifts (Gift store module) you also have virtual gifts in SocialBiz that members
can send to one another and that you can make a free or a paid service:
Another fun tool is posting graffiti in guestbooks:

8. 13. Dating Pro helps members attract attention to their profiles with the Carouselservicethat can
also be made free or paid:
14. Take a tour
Take tour is duplicated on the homepage of Dating Pro based site giving site administrator more
ways to communicate with site members, especially new members and welcome them, giving some
clues on how and where to start:

9. 15. Languages
In PG Dating Pro there is a more advanced language files structure. RTL languages are supported,
for example Arabic or Hebrew.
16. Site design
Dating Pro design management tool in admin panel makes it easy to change colour scheme of the
website:
For PG SocialBiz there are 3 design themes: Business, Corporate and Community.

10. For PG Dating Pro there are 14 design themes. You can see them at
http://demo.datingpro.com/dating/index.php.