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: Elead
providerId: elead-crm
created: '2026-07-10'
modified: '2026-07-10'
reconciled: false
tags:
- CRM
- Automotive
- Fortellis
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  The Elead Vehicle Sales APIs are throttled at the Fortellis gateway. CDK's
  published connector metadata documents a throttling limit of 100 API calls
  per connection per 60 seconds for each of the Elead Sales Opportunities, Sales
  Customers, and Product Reference Data connectors. Additional per-solution or
  per-dealer quotas may apply under the Fortellis partner agreement but are not
  publicly documented. The opportunity delta search is bounded to a 7-day
  lookback window, and search endpoints are paged (page / pageSize).
notes: >-
  The 100 calls / 60 seconds figure comes from CDK's Microsoft Power Platform
  connector documentation, which mirrors the Fortellis-gated APIs. Confirm exact
  production limits with CDK/Fortellis during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/cdkeleadsalescustomers/
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/cdkeleadsalesopportunities/
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/cdkeleadproductreferencedata/
- https://apidocs.fortellis.io/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Sales Opportunities API Calls
  scope: connection
  metric: requests
  limit: 100 per 60 seconds
  notes: Per CDK connector metadata for the Elead Sales Opportunities connector.
- name: Sales Customers API Calls
  scope: connection
  metric: requests
  limit: 100 per 60 seconds
  notes: Per CDK connector metadata for the Elead Sales Customers connector.
- name: Product Reference Data API Calls
  scope: connection
  metric: requests
  limit: 100 per 60 seconds
  notes: Per CDK connector metadata for the Elead Product Reference Data connector.
- name: Opportunity Delta Window
  scope: request
  metric: lookback
  limit: 7 days
  notes: searchDelta returns opportunities changed within the past 7 days only.
- name: Sales Activities API Calls
  scope: connection
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: No public rate limit located for the Sales Activities API; assume gateway throttling similar to the other connectors.
policies:
- name: Gateway Throttling
  description: Requests are throttled at the CDK Fortellis gateway per connection; excess requests receive HTTP 429.
- name: Pagination
  description: Search endpoints (customers, opportunities) page results via page and pageSize query parameters.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com