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: Chowly
providerId: chowly
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Restaurants
- Online Ordering
- Delivery
- POS Integration
- Menu Sync
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Chowly does not publish rate limits for its partner-gated POS integration
  API. Access is provisioned per location via an API key under a commercial /
  partner agreement, and any throttling, quota, or concurrency limits are
  defined in that partner documentation rather than on a public page. Specific
  limit values are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  No public rate-limit documentation was found. Confirm request, order, and
  menu-sync limits with Chowly partner documentation on reconciliation. Apply
  standard backoff with Retry-After handling.
sources:
- https://www.chowly.com
- https://chowly.help/s/faqs
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: API Requests
  scope: location
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider partner documentation
  notes: Not publicly documented; defined per partner agreement and provisioned per location API key.
policies:
- name: Per-Location Provisioning
  description: Each restaurant location is keyed by its own Chowly API key; limits are applied per location.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After if a 429 is returned.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com