Global Payments · Rate Limits

Global Payments Rate Limits

Global Payments does not publish numeric per-second / per-minute API rate limits on its public developer documentation. Throttling is applied at the gateway level and varies by product (Unified Payments API vs Global Payments Integrated). Merchants experiencing throttling should contact integration support for limit raises.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Unified Payments API throttling account
varies
see Global Payments developer support
Global Payments Integrated API throttling account
varies
see Global Payments Integrated support

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Apply exponential backoff with jitter on 429 / 503 responses; retry idempotent reads only.
Idempotency
Use idempotency keys on payment-creation endpoints to prevent duplicate authorizations on retry.
Support escalation
For sustained high-volume processing, contact Global Payments integration support to raise gateway-level limits before launch.

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