Not Connected with Facebook

We'll gladly help you get things setup however we can!

There's a few things I'm seeing about your page to point out. These all regard the Fanbox:
1) You look to have the JFBCFan module loading in the left sidebar. However, you didn't include the URL to your FB Page, so it's not showing at all.
2) The Fanbox at the bottom looks to be manually entered (which is fine, don't need to use JFBConnect to specifically enter that). This FanBox is set to show the stream from the Page (most recent posts), but there are none.. which is why you have a big blank area.
3) To show faces, when the stream is enabled, the minimum height you can use for the Fanbox is like 400px (or so). The Fanbox at the bottom is set to 260px. That's not enough to show both the stream and the faces, so all your seeing is the stream.. and there's no stream to show.. which is why it looks like that.

As for the statistics for connected users, that will show users that have logged into your site through Facebook and 'connected' to your site that way. It doesn't have anything to do with the amount of people that Like your website or Facebook Page. Your application (what is used to let people login to your site through Facebook) is not directly related to your Facebook Page at all. It's extremely confusing when you get started, we know, but, everything on your page looks right from my standpoint. I did just create an account through Facebook. I was able to log in. In your stats area should be at least 1 connected user (me). If you increase the height of the Fanbox, that should help show faces (which I just Like'd as well).

Hope that gets you started, but by all means, ask as many questions you want, and we'll help however we can!
Alex

No problem for the help, it's what we do. Very glad to hear you got the Fanbox thing going, and don't pull your hair out.. ask us for help. That's what your subscription is for, and we've already pulled our hair out trying to figure this stuff so you don't have too.

Overall, it's a good looking site. Clear message, easy listings. Hopefully, you can get the message out and let others know. Another veterans site that uses JFBConnect is vetawarenesscoalition.com/ Not sure, but may want to get in touch for cross-promotion. I know there's lots of veterans sites out there, so not that you need to affiliate with other Joomla ones, but thought you should know. On that site, they also link to a VOSB directory as well (www.veteranownedbusiness.com/). Not sure if collaboration or more, similar, sites are better to get the word out.. but worth knowing about other sites shooting for the same goal.

Back to your page, the best other integration feature from JFBConnect is showing your site (or just the directory, or your mission page) in your Facebook Page. This is a good way to let others know what you're goals and purpose are when they visit your FB Page. It can be done with a Joomla article, and can also help get you more Likes to your FB Page. Once you have more Likes, when you do post content to that page, it will go to all those users, which is good for further (free) promotion. For more about the Facebook Page integration, see the link below. You will need an SSL certificate for it to work though:
www.sourcecoast.com/jfbconnect/docs/facebook-page-canvas-setup

Anyways, hope that helps, but if you have any ideas you want to bounce off us (Facebook specific, or even just Joomla related), we're pretty friendly and will give our opinions or thoughts on just about anything

Best of luck,
Alex

Glad we're helping!

Contacting others in your field, especially if they're friendly competitors, is a good thing. Awareness is your ultimate goal, not necessarily traffic or profits (from what I can tell), so working together or at least communicating is usually beneficial in that situation.

Yeah, Page integration is just another step. If you get a design, you can simply put it into a Joomla article and start from there.. or create a whole separate Joomla template to user around it. There are options, and when you get there, just let us know how we can help.

PayToUpgrade is no more. We discontinued it about 6 months ago. It didn't really fit the needs of what users were looking for, and caused more confusion than it was worth for both us and the end users. We wanted a 'simple' payment extension, but realized quickly that simple just isn't possible.. and we didn't want to make yet-another-complex payment extension.. that's what we were trying to solve in the first place!

Finally, we'd love a review on the Joomla Extension Directory. It's certainly not required, but very appreciated! Thanks for the offer!

Best of luck,
Alex

saluteveterans,
Yes, "Login with Facebook" logs you into Joomla. If the user hasn't already connected their FB account to a Joomla user, JFBConnect will either automatically create a new Joomla user for them or bring them to a page where they can give a username password to create a new account. The mode is determined from the "User Creation" setting in JFBConnect.

There's also another setting called "Automatically map user's by email" where, if there is a Joomla user on the site with the same email address as the Facebook user, the two accounts will be linked automatically. I'm not sure how it would work with PaymentsPlus, but JFBConnect does create standard Joomla users, so they should have a lot of flexibility there.

Good luck,
Alex

Hopefully, that gives you some ideas. You may just create the user for your listing people, use their email address, and then tell them to login with their Facebook account. It will automatically do the association and they can go from there.

If you have any other questions though, just let us know.