The 1min PointKit teaser video is up and I am so proud of myself I would kiss me but I don’t reach (my father always used to say that..).

The original version had my voice which comes with a great Spanish accent from factory. Then, I tried my girlfriend who has a very sexy voice, but then I thought my potential customers would be calling for her number instead of signing up for PointKit
So I gave it some more thought and decided to get a professional to do it. The difference is amazing. My friend Curtis has used several times the voiceover services of Wayne Deschover and he was very happy with his work.
The whole process went really fast. I sent him the script on Friday. Saturday he sent me a demo and once approved I got the final version on Sunday.

A good voice and professional equipment makes a huge difference and it ended being very affordable. Here is the video edited on Final Cut Pro:

You can go now to http://pointkit.com a request an invitation to become an early beta tester for PointKit.
There is still quite a bit to do before going live but soon, probably before Christmas I will have worked out all the major bugs and PointKit will be officially be released to the world.
I think when that happens my girlfriend is going to explode of happiness because I have been over a year working on PointKit and she can’t wait for me to finish and take a little holiday maybe to South America.
Trust me, I also want to release Pointkit and we are getting really close.

Last week I got PayPal integrated using their API. It wasn’t to difficult but it sure took a lot of testing.
First I developed and tested setting up recurring payments using their testing sandbox and after signing up for their Website Payments Pro program ($30.00 USD / month) I was able to test payments for real!.
I used my second credit card to signup for Pointkit and it worked! You cannot believe how excited I was when I got a confirmation message from PayPal with the successful transaction details. I jumped up and down for ten minutes full of happiness. yes! I got my first customer! who cares that that customer was myself. Now I am paying $24.00 USD a month to use my own program.. hahhaa!

Money is now flowing in a circle, from my credit card to PayPal to my bank account. Obviously I am kidding, this is not very sustainable, specially having into account that PayPal takes about %3 of every transaction..

I did subscribe to PointKit using my credit card but once I saw the payment went through I cancelled the newly created account. Because there is a 30 day trial period, I was not debited the $24.00 so I didn’t lose any money while testing.

Integrating payments is a very important landmark for an online business. It means that now I can officially charge people for a product and start generating an income.

However there is much to be done.

About 80% of PointKit is fully functional. The 20% remaining is mostly debugging at this point. All modules are working but there are many small glitches that can affect the user experience considerably. I must thank my dad for taking the time to do some beta testing and point out many issues I wasn’t aware of.

In the following post I will go over what is remaining to be done before PointKit can go live.