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API Evangelist enhancements for Lightspeed Retail X-Series

7 actions 7 updates update extends ../openapi/lightspeed-x-series-openapi.json
Generated by API Evangelist Written by API Evangelist tooling for Lightspeed Commerce's API. It is a proposal applied on top of the contract, not a document Lightspeed Commerce publishes.
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What the actions change

x-api-evangelistx-authenticationx-rate-limitx-paginationx-versioningx-reversibilityx-data-handling

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overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements for Lightspeed Retail X-Series
  version: 1.0.0
extends: ../openapi/lightspeed-x-series-openapi.json
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-08-27'
  method: generated
  source: >-
    Derived from repo artifacts (conventions/, scopes/, errors/, lifecycle/, rate-limits/, mcp/) against
    the harvested X-Series contract. Adds only cross-references and runtime semantics Lightspeed
    documents elsewhere but does not put in the spec. The original spec is never mutated.
actions:
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-api-evangelist:
      profile: https://apis.io/provider/lightspeed/
      artifacts:
        conventions: conventions/lightspeed-conventions.yml
        scopes: scopes/lightspeed-scopes.yml
        errors: errors/lightspeed-problem-types.yml
        lifecycle: lifecycle/lightspeed-lifecycle.yml
        rate_limits: rate-limits/lightspeed-rate-limits.yml
        webhooks: asyncapi/lightspeed-webhooks.yml
        mcp: mcp/lightspeed-mcp.yml
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-authentication:
      model: OAuth 2.0 authorization code (RFC 6749); Plus-plan personal tokens as an alternative
      authorizationUrl: https://secure.retail.lightspeed.app/connect
      tokenUrl: https://{domain_prefix}.retail.lightspeed.app/api/1.0/token
      access_token_ttl_seconds: 86400
      refresh_token_rotation: true
      note: >-
        The spec declares only a generic http/bearer scheme. This is the flow that actually issues that
        bearer token, per https://x-series-api.lightspeedhq.com/docs/authorization.
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-rate-limit:
      formula: 300 * <number of registers> + 50
      window_seconds: 300
      buckets:
      - per retailer per application
      - per retailer for all users
      headers: [X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining]
      retry_after: Retry-After as an RFC1123 HTTP-date, not seconds
      exhausted_status: 429
      docs: https://x-series-api.lightspeedhq.com/docs/rate_limiting
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-pagination:
      style: version cursor
      parameter: after
      response_fields: [data, version.min, version.max]
      termination: repeat until data is empty
      docs: https://x-series-api.lightspeedhq.com/docs/pagination
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-versioning:
      scheme: date-based YYYY-MM in the path
      cadence_months: 3
      support_window_months: 12
      eol_behavior: >-
        Requests to an end-of-life version are silently served by the oldest supported version; there is
        no error and no Sunset header.
      docs: https://x-series-api.lightspeedhq.com/docs/versioning-strategy
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-reversibility:
      grade: documented
      reversal_operations:
      - operationId: initReturnSale
        reverses: CreateSale
        window: not stated by the provider
      - operationId: ReverseGiftCardTransaction
        reverses: gift card REDEEMING transactions only
        window: not stated by the provider
      - operationId: ReverseStoreCreditHold
        reverses: store credit HOLD
        window: not stated by the provider
      note: No Lightspeed documentation states a time window for any reversal.
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-data-handling:
      credit_card_redaction: >-
        The server silently redacts detected card data on named Customer and Sale fields and still
        returns 200 OK, so a written value can differ from the value read back.
        See https://x-series-api.lightspeedhq.com/docs/data_security.