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  • Introduction
    • 📘API documentation
      • Introduction to integrations
    • ⚙️Using the API
      • 🔒Authentication
      • 🏹Swagger
    • 📡Overall index of methods
  • Usage limiting
    • 🕑Rate limiting
    • 🔃Limits per request
    • ♒Limits HTTP headers responses
    • ⚠️Usage limits by endpoint
  • Accounts
    • GET methods
      • Accounts
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Respone
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
      • Marketplaces
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
      • Price Lists
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Responses
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
      • Stores
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
      • Login Token
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • 📊Business rules
        • Standard usage flow for Alephee B2B portal
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
    • PUT methods
      • Update account fiscal tax rules
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
  • Orders
    • Logical model
      • ℹ️What is an order?
      • 📂Order model overview
      • 🛒Shopping cart orders
        • 🔳Cart order model overview
        • 〽️Mercado Libre’s shopping cart orders
      • 💴Approved payments and pending payments
      • 🗒️General notes
    • GET methods
      • 👩‍💻Orders
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
        • ⁉️Useful tips
      • 🛒Orders List From A Shopping Cart
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
      • 📄Orders Document
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
      • 🧾Order Shipping Label
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • 📊Business rules
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⚙️Examples
    • PUT methods
      • 📑Update orders status
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • 📊Business rules
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
      • 👨‍💼Mark orders as integrated
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
    • POST methods
      • 📑Attach document to an order
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • Allowed document types and formats
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⚙️Examples
        • ⚙️Example using POSTMAN via form-data
        • ⚙️Example using POSTMAN via JSON body
      • 📑Split an order
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
      • 📨Send a message to a buyer
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • 📊Business rules
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⚙️Examples
      • 📝Create a new order
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • Introduction
        • 📊Business rules
        • 📑Order mandatory sections
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
    • DELETE methods
      • 📑Delete an order
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • 📊Business rules
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⚙️Examples
  • Orders shipping
    • GET methods
      • Shipping Packaging Information
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
      • Shipping Scheduling Information
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
      • Shipping Transportation Information
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
    • POST methods
      • Set Shipping Packaging Information
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⚙️Examples
  • Products
    • GET methods
      • Products
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
    • POST methods
      • Logical model
      • Business Rules
        • Prices considerations
        • Available prices attributes combinations to set prices
        • Stock considerations
        • Alephee B2B portals prices and stock considerations
        • Measurable quantity and price considerations
      • Update Products
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
    • PUT methods
      • Update product fiscal information
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • 🗒️Notes
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
    • DELETE methods
      • Delete products from a price list
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • 📊Business rules
        • ‼️Warnings
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⌨️Result type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
        • Most common validation error messages and how to fix them.
  • Product listings
    • GET methods
      • Product Listings
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
    • POST methods
      • Set product listings discounts
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • 📊Business rules
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
    • PUT methods
      • Update product listings
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • 📊Business rules
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
      • Set product listings status
        • ⚠️Usage limiting
        • 📊Business rules
        • ⬆️Request and Response
        • ⌨️Type specifications
        • ⚙️Examples
  • GLOSSARY
    • Conventions
    • Response status codes
    • Marketplaces/Channels ID and names list
    • Product listings status list
    • Orders and shipping glossary
      • Available order statuses codes
      • State transitions diagram
      • Automatic and manual order status updates
      • Attaching documents to orders
      • Shipping labels
  • TROUBLESHOOTING
    • ❗Important tips
    • ✅Best integrations practices
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  1. Usage limiting

Rate limiting

To ensure good API performance, integrations will be subject to a throttling threshold. Current limits are described below.

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When the capacity of a service is shared among many users or consumers, it can apply rate limiting per user to provide fair and reasonable use, without affecting other users. These limits might be applied over time periods, or they might be applied to resources that are not measured by rate but by quantity allocated.

In order to provide a better API service, we will be introducing an improvement for our rate limiter for API requests as of Monday 20th, December 2021.

When using resources from the Alephee API, you can perform a limited number of requests in a given period of time.

The approach used to rate limit the API usage is based on the “” algorithm implementation, where the API controls the flow, the number of request and the burst rate of requests in a certain period of time.

Currently, the rate limiting of the API is considered per API_KEY, not per company, and rate limit window duration is 1 (one) minute. So, when an application uses the same API_KEY for several accounts, all of requests of all the accounts have a limited result rate.

When an application exceeds the maximum number of requests in the time-window given, the API will not process the request and will return an (Too many requests). In this case, it is your responsibility to avoid breaking the API rate limits and retry your request later.

Please note that this strategy will not impact most users, even if you are a heavy user of our API. This rate limiting is designed to prevent undesired loads on our systems from misconfigured API integrations or abuse.

Each of the API endpoints has a different rate limit and they are documented in the next sections. Graphical EXAMPLE of rate limit when calling an API endpoint with a limitation of (for instance) of 4 calls per minute:

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Generic Cell Rate
error code 429