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: Deluxe Corporation
providerId: deluxe
generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://developer.deluxe.com/api-ref/api/merchant-services/rootRaml.json,
  https://developer.deluxe.com/api-ref/api/merchant-services/common/commonResponseParameter.json,
  https://developer.deluxe.com/api-ref/api/merchant-services/common/securityschemasResponseParameter.json,
  https://docs.deluxe.com/docs/deluxe-payments-platform/zoi9qoo2d5tf2-deluxe-payments-platform,
  https://docs.deluxe.com/docs/deluxe-payments-platform/en4e8l7er7ckt-error-codes
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-13'
reconciled: true
limit_count: 0
limits: []
tags:
  - Payments
  - Merchant Services
  - Rate Limiting
description: >-
  Deluxe publishes NO rate limits for the Deluxe Payments Platform APIs. This replaces a 2026-05-04
  scaffold that asserted per-merchant negotiated limits and 429/503 response codes; none of that was
  sourced from Deluxe and it has been removed.
response_headers:
  documented: []
  note: >-
    No X-RateLimit-*, RateLimit-* or Retry-After header appears in any of the three published RAML
    definitions, the three shared RAML libraries, or the 56 rendered operation parameter documents. The
    only response headers Deluxe documents at all are the request headers it requires inbound
    (partnerToken, requestId).
exhaustion:
  status_code: null
  documented: false
  note: >-
    429 does not appear anywhere in the published contract. The published error-code table
    (57 codes) contains no throttling or quota code; 2319 CONNECTION ERROR is the only transient-looking
    entry and it is described as a connection failure, not a rate limit.
searched:
  - url: https://developer.deluxe.com/api-ref/api/merchant-services/rootRaml.json
    status: 200
    finding: No rate-limit trait, header or response documented on any of the 37 gateway operations.
  - url: https://docs.deluxe.com/docs/deluxe-payments-platform/en4e8l7er7ckt-error-codes
    status: 200
    finding: 57 gateway/issuer response codes published; none is a rate-limit or quota code.
  - url: https://docs.deluxe.com/docs/deluxe-payments-platform/mgepg7fjccrmj-frequently-asked-questions
    status: 200
    finding: No rate-limit guidance.
guidance:
  - >-
    The only throughput-shaped guidance Deluxe publishes is about token lifetime, not request volume:
    bearer tokens expire after 60 minutes, should be refreshed at 45 minutes, and an unexpired token
    will not be reissued — so a client that re-authenticates on every call will simply be handed the
    same token back.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com