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: SamCart
providerId: samcart
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-07-05'
reconciled: false
tags:
- E-commerce
- Checkout
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  SamCart does not publish specific numeric rate limits for the Public API in
  its public documentation or knowledge base as of the review date. The API is a
  read-heavy REST interface over marketplace data (orders, products, customers,
  subscriptions, charges, refunds) with a small set of write actions, and access
  is provisioned per account by the SamCart Support team. Clients should page
  through large result sets, filter by date range, and implement exponential
  backoff on HTTP 429 responses.
notes: >-
  No documented per-minute or per-day request limits were found. Values here are
  conventions, not confirmed limits. Confirm any account-specific throttling with
  SamCart Support when API access is granted.
sources:
- https://developer.samcart.com/
- https://help.samcart.com/support/solutions/articles/60000805533-samcart-api
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Public API Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: SamCart does not publish a numeric request-rate limit for the Public API.
- name: List Pagination
  scope: request
  metric: records
  limit: configurable via limit/offset
  notes: List endpoints return paginated results controlled by limit and offset query parameters.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
- name: Date-Range Filtering
  description: Use start_date/end_date filters to bound large order, charge, and subscription result sets rather than fetching everything.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com