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: Revel Systems
providerId: revel-systems
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reconciled: false
tags:
- POS
- Restaurant
- Retail
- iPad
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: Revel Open API rate limits are not openly published. Honor 429 responses.
notes: Contact Revel partner support for high-volume integration limits.
sources:
- https://developer.revelsystems.com/
- https://developer.revelsystems.com/revelsystems/docs/webhooks
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default Open API
  scope: establishment
  metric: requests
  limit: not publicly documented
  notes: Honor 429.
- name: Webhook Delivery Window
  scope: endpoint
  metric: response-time
  limit: 10 seconds
  notes: Partner webhook endpoints must return a 2XX response within 10 seconds or delivery is treated as failed.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.
- name: Webhook Retry Policy
  description: >-
    Failed webhook deliveries are retried with exponential backoff over roughly 36 minutes:
    retry 1 after 60s, retry 2 after 300s, retries 3 and 4 after 900s each.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com