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# Welcome to MERPI By Syticks

MERPI is Syticks' comprehensive ticketing API infrastructure. It connects your business to a verified ecosystem of ticket providers across Nigeria, covering entertainment, cinema, transportation, and hospitality, through a single, unified API.

Instead of building and maintaining separate integrations for each ticket category, you integrate once with MERPI and offer your customers access to all of it from your app, website, or POS terminal.

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### What You Can Offer Your Customers

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Entertainment" %}
Concerts, parties, conferences, comedy shows, festivals, and more. Browse experiences by category, location, or business, and let your customers purchase tickets directly through your platform.
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Cinema" %}
Movie showings across multiple cinema chains nationwide. Supports single and multi-location cinemas, weekly, monthly, and daily schedules, and per-day showtime configurations.
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Bus Transportation" %}
Inter-city and intra-city bus tickets with real-time schedules. Fetch available routes, terminals, and seat availability, and complete purchases end to end.
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Hospitality" %}
Hotels, resorts, apartments, and short-let accommodations. Browse available properties and complete bookings through the same unified API.
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

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### Two Things That Make Up MERPI

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th align="center"></th><th align="center"></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><strong>The MERPI API</strong></td><td align="center">A collection of endpoints your application calls to fetch ticket data and complete purchases. Works across mobile apps, websites, and POS terminals.</td><td><a href="/pages/1EMlgvD45AWDsTadn69l">/pages/1EMlgvD45AWDsTadn69l</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><strong>The MERPI Dashboard</strong></td><td align="center">Your merchant portal. Monitor ticket sales, track commissions, manage withdrawals, view customer lists, and access your API keys, all in one place.</td><td><a href="/pages/FKkU5mNF5CCBdIWaVlDW">/pages/FKkU5mNF5CCBdIWaVlDW</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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### Get Access

MERPI is available to verified merchants. To get started, contact us and we will send you an activation code to create your merchant account.

{% hint style="info" %}
Email us at <hello@syticks.com> with your business name, the ticket categories you want to offer, and your expected monthly transaction volume. We typically respond within 24 hours.
{% endhint %}

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### Ready to Integrate?

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th align="center"></th><th align="center"></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="center"><strong>How MERPI Works</strong></td><td align="center">Understand the platform, environments, and how transactions flow before writing a single line of code.</td><td><a href="/pages/GIPLw7iUwXE2ZbxCK8dL">/pages/GIPLw7iUwXE2ZbxCK8dL</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><strong>Getting Started</strong></td><td align="center">Create your merchant account, fund your test wallet, and make your first API call</td><td><a href="/pages/ZNCIZZctsCFVuzhyQrsD">/pages/ZNCIZZctsCFVuzhyQrsD</a></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><strong>API Reference</strong></td><td align="center">Browse the full endpoint reference across all four ticket categories.</td><td><a href="/pages/1EMlgvD45AWDsTadn69l">/pages/1EMlgvD45AWDsTadn69l</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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