Hi Jordi,

Thank you for your inquiry. I'm Justin, one of Stack Ideas's marketing guy.

Well, EasySocial is a social networking component where users are able to register, login and add friends, share statuses, photos, links and many more. Users can also create Groups and Events and share 'em with their friends.

I'm not sure what do you mean by having a directory with some groups, are you actually referring to users? Each registered users will have their own profile page where they can put a profile picture, cover photo, and fill in their details. The administrator have the option to create fields for their users and decide whether it's compulsory or not. For instance, a clinic might need the field 'Medical background' for their patient.

Each users can either register themselves (and access is given either immediately or by admin's approval) or you can import users via Joomla's user directory. EasySocial actually uses the Joomla's user database. By default, each users are able to edit their own profiles.

You can reach our backend demo of EasySocial here : http://easysocial.stackideas.com/administrator/

Hope these answers your question! Let me know if you have any other inquiries.

Jordi if you have the budget, I recommend looking at a EasySocial + jReviews + Quick2Cart combo, that way you can have groups, directories, stores. I am not sure if it would be exactly the way you envision it, but I recommend researching all three components. That is the combo I have gone for

One thing is for sure, I strongly recommend EasySocial as a base... and expand from there feature wise with third party components/addons.

Thanks for sharing this Jannik