Hi Paul,
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Hey Paul,
I will provide the response to your questions below. Remember to start a new thread if you have anymore issues on any of these questions.

Login integration - my understanding is that you have 2 x modules (log in box and a log in form) as well as a menu item / page plugin which take the format of the login box format)? Are there any other variants?

The EasySocial dropdown module has a login dropdown as well, similar to the login icon in the toolbar.

Log in modal pop up - do you have such capability or does all your log in formats have to be rendered into a page?

Generally trying to perform restricted actions will direct users to the login page and there is no setting to change this. However, there are instances where the login popup does appear. For example, clicking on an open group to join while the user is not logged in will prompt ES to display a login popup.

Mini registration - supposedly if this is turned on a registration form is inserted into the either the page plugin or the module log in box. Yes or no? But what defines a mini-registration form - i.e what fields are displayed and can this be configured? From my perspective mini-registration would be email (which would be utilised as username) and password. How does easysocial handle this?

When mini registration is turned on, the mini registration form will be displayed in the login box on ES or on the login module as well. The mini registration fields that appear are determined by the 'Appear In Mini Registration' setting in the profile type custom field(http://take.ms/QXZ0F).

Profile - I see that you can create multiple profiles and specific fields that are then utilised by each of the profiles within the registration form/process. Can you confirm what the minimum mandatory fields requirements (that are visible and required) during the registration process. For example, is it possible to just have email only in the form. The system uses the email as username and generates/creates a password for the user which is then communicated by an email to the user? The outcome I am looking to achieve is the minimum input level from a user to create an account and gain access to restricted areas of the website.

I would say that the minimum details would be the email and password field since email is needed for communication and the password field cannot be empty for login purposes.

URL redirection - can you confirm the behaviour if “Default” is selected. My understanding is that if this is set to “Default” for both login and registration the user should be returned to the original page when they started the initial process. However, from my experience the user is taken to the Easysocial community page. Please confirm what selecting Default should do. I want the user to be returned to the original page. Not easysocial.

If you are referring to the login redirection setting in the module, then the 'default' option will check for the redirection setting in menu items and Settings>Users>Authentication>Login Redirection(http://take.ms/NZg6D) as well.

The login and registration form have styles that are not aligned to my template and brand. Where do I go and how do I change the styling of the modules and page plugin?

For CSS styling, you would have to customize and override them by applying custom rules in a update protected custom css file. If you are familiar with css, there should be no issue in getting the selector and writing the custom rules.
Custom css override documentation: https://stackideas.com/docs/easysocial/administrators/templating/adding-custom-css-codes

The login and registration form has “text” pre built into the forms. How do I change this text. For example, the login box “Don't have an account yet? Register now and start interacting with people from this community today! - how do I change this?

You can change language constant translation by utilizing Joomla's language override function.
Language override documentation: https://stackideas.com/docs/easysocial/administrators/languages/creating-language-overrides
Most of the language string can be found in JoomlaFolder/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_easysocial.ini. For example, the language constants below represent the following string.

COM_EASYSOCIAL_LOGIN_NO_ACCOUNT="Don't have an account yet?"

COM_EASYSOCIAL_LOGIN_REGISTER_NOW="Register now and start interacting with people from this community today!"

Once you know the language constant to use, you can apply the overrides in Joomla's override section.

Social login and registration integration and configuration - can you confirm the functional / behaviour differences between JFBConnect and your own. For example, JFBconnect enables more integrations other than FB and Twitter. Can I though JFBconnect integrate other social networks like Instagram? Can I use the JFBconnect SClogin modal popup module instead of your own?

The only notable difference is the number of integration with social networks. JFBConnect is compatible with EasySocial so you can definitely use it if you want to integrate the site with more social sites other than FB and Twitter. As for SCLogin, its a module so you can use this instead of EasySocial login modules if you want.

What / Where is the registered user's profile page - to edit fields etc? For the moment I don’t require the full functionality of a social community. This is later. I just require login/registration/user profile/ logout. Is it possible to achieve this outcome and later on switch on the community?

Profile edit can be accessed from the toolbar or the dropdown in the user's header(http://take.ms/Qh7jP). There is a menu item for this as well. If you turn off 'Allow community access' option in the profile type(http://take.ms/MzEqb), users under that profile type will not have access to most of EasySocial, except for registration/edit profile.