specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Boulevard
providerId: boulevard
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Salon Software
- Spa Software
- GraphQL
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Boulevard does not publish numeric rate limits for the Admin API, Client
  API, or Tokenization API in any publicly accessible page. The full
  Developer Portal (developers.joinblvd.com) requires an Enterprise-tier
  login to view API-reference-level detail, and no public source (SDK
  source, partner integration guides, or community posts) states RPM/RPS
  ceilings, query-cost limits, or GraphQL depth/complexity limits.
notes: >-
  Because Boulevard's Admin/Client APIs are GraphQL, a per-request
  cost-based limit (as opposed to a flat requests-per-minute limit) would
  be typical, but this is not confirmed for Boulevard specifically. Treat
  every limit below as unverified until reconciled against an authenticated
  Developer Portal session or direct confirmation from dev-support@blvd.co.
sources:
- https://developers.joinblvd.com/2020-01/admin-api/overview
- https://developers.joinblvd.com/2020-01/client-api/overview
- https://support.boulevard.io/en/articles/6577513-api-requests-developer-support-portal
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Admin API request rate
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not publicly documented
  notes: No RPM/RPS figure found in public documentation; likely disclosed only inside the authenticated Developer Portal or Enterprise contract.
- name: Client API request rate
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not publicly documented
  notes: Same as Admin API - not publicly disclosed.
- name: GraphQL query cost / complexity
  scope: account
  metric: query_cost
  limit: not publicly documented
  notes: Typical for GraphQL APIs but not confirmed for Boulevard; the schema appears hand-built on Elixir/Absinthe, which supports complexity analysis, but no published limit was found.
- name: Tokenization API request rate
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not publicly documented
  notes: The vault.blvd.co tokenization endpoint's operational limits are not documented publicly.
policies:
- name: Enterprise Support Channel
  description: Rate-limit questions and increases are handled via the Developer Support Portal ticketing system for Enterprise customers, not through self-service documentation.
- name: Sandbox First
  description: New integrations are provisioned a sandbox businessId/apiKey pair before production access, which may carry its own (undocumented) lower limits.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com