# Welcome to a new chpter.

## Chpter. Documentation

### What are chpter. APIs? <a href="#block-6a075b94edac4907a22231b115b903a4" id="block-6a075b94edac4907a22231b115b903a4"></a>

chpter. APIs enables you to accept & settle payments in 47 countries and 135+ currencies and make payouts. Connect your online business, e-commerce store, or web application with our frictionless payment solution.

This documentation provides information on how to interact with the chpter. APIs . They will cover the available endpoints and provide example code for using the API. They will help you integrate chpter.’s APIs.

The API is organised around REST. Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, accepts form-encoded request bodies, returns JSON-encoded responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs.

Before integrating the APIs, one must have a [chpter](https://chpter.co/). account which can be obtained by registering for an account.

## Want to jump right in?

Feeling eager? Jump in to the quick start docs and get everything setup:

{% content-ref url="api-reference/authentication" %}
[authentication](https://chpter.gitbook.io/chpter-3.0-public-api-reference/api-reference/authentication)
{% endcontent-ref %}

## Want to dive deep?

Dive a little deeper and start exploring our API reference to get an idea of everything that's possible with the APIs:

{% content-ref url="api-reference/payments" %}
[payments](https://chpter.gitbook.io/chpter-3.0-public-api-reference/api-reference/payments)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="api-reference/payouts" %}
[payouts](https://chpter.gitbook.io/chpter-3.0-public-api-reference/api-reference/payouts)
{% endcontent-ref %}
