Clover · Rate Limits

Clover Rate Limits

Clover REST API enforces per-merchant and per-app rate limits. Documented guidance: stay under 16 requests/second per merchant token; bulk operations have separate guidance. Honor 429 with Retry-After.

1 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Default REST merchant
requests/second
guidance: ~16 RPS per merchant
Honor 429 and Retry-After.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.

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