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: Scalable Press
providerId: scalablepress
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Print on Demand
- Fulfillment
- Custom Printing
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  Scalable Press does not publish fixed numeric rate limits for its REST API in
  the public documentation. Practical throughput is governed by ordinary REST
  request handling and by fulfillment capacity rather than a documented
  per-minute request cap. Order status is read by polling the v3 Event API,
  which should be requested on a sensible interval rather than tight loops.
notes: >-
  No numeric per-account or per-endpoint request-rate limit is documented as of
  the review date. Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter,
  honor Retry-After when present, and poll GET /v3/event at a reasonable cadence.
  Confirm any account-specific limits with Scalable Press.
sources:
- https://scalablepress.com/docs/
- https://scalablepress.com/api
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 v2/v3 REST API.
- name: Event Polling
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: Order/item status is read by polling GET /v3/event; poll on a sensible interval.
- name: Order Throughput
  scope: account
  metric: orders
  limit: fulfillment-bound
  notes: Effective order throughput is bound by production/fulfillment capacity, not a documented API cap.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
- name: Polling Cadence
  description: Poll the v3 Event API at a reasonable interval rather than in tight loops to retrieve order and item status.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com