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: Donately
providerId: donately
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-07-05'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Fundraising
- Donations
- Nonprofit
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  Donately does not publish fixed numeric rate limits for its REST API. The API
  is a standard REST/JSON interface at https://api.donately.com/v2 authenticated
  with an API token via HTTP Basic Auth. As with most donation platforms, callers
  should implement retry with exponential backoff and honor any 429 Too Many
  Requests responses. Donately's core value is metered by donation platform fees
  rather than by API request volume, so there is no per-request billing.
notes: >-
  No numeric per-account or per-endpoint request limits are documented as of the
  review date; the Donately reference renders as a JavaScript single-page app
  that could not be fully crawled for headers or limit tables. Treat these limit
  entries as not-published and verify against developer.donately.com if a signed
  agreement requires guaranteed throughput.
sources:
- https://developer.donately.com/
- https://developer.donately.com/api/
- https://tray.ai/documentation/connectors/service/donately
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: REST API Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: No fixed numeric request-rate limit is documented for the Donately REST API.
- name: Public Donation Create
  scope: campaign
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: POST /donations can be called unauthenticated from public forms; abuse protection is applied by Donately but no numeric limit is documented.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
- name: Idempotency
  description: When creating donations, guard against duplicate submissions on retries; verify whether Donately supports an idempotency key during reconciliation.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com