Lightspeed · Rate Limits

Lightspeed Pos Rate Limits

Lightspeed Retail R-Series API uses a leaky-bucket rate limit, returning bucket level in the X-LS-API-Bucket-Level header. Other series have their own per-minute throttles; honor 429 with Retry-After.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
POSRetailRestaurantEcommerceRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

R-Series Leaky Bucket account
bucket level
leaky-bucket; bucket header indicates fill
X-LS-API-Bucket-Level reports current usage.
Other Series account
requests/minute
varies by series
Honor 429.

Policies

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

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