Heartland Payment Systems · Rate Limits

Heartland Payment Systems Rate Limits

No public numeric rate limits are documented. Capacity is provisioned per merchant under the executed processing agreement.

Heartland Payment Systems Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Heartland Payment Systems on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, across the merchant tier, measuring varies.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined.

Tagged areas include Bill Pay, Card Present, Card Not Present, Ecommerce, and Payment Processing.

1 Limits
Bill PayCard PresentCard Not PresentEcommercePayment ProcessingPaymentsPayrollPoint of SaleRate Limiting

Limits

Per-Merchant Capacity merchant
varies
see merchant agreement / developer portal API reference
Heartland does not publish numeric per-API throttle ceilings. Card-network and processor-side controls (issuer, scheme, fraud) apply in addition to any platform throttle.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Implement exponential backoff with jitter on 5xx and any 429-class responses; honor Retry-After when present.
Idempotency
Use the Portico Gateway's documented idempotency mechanisms (e.g. ClientTransactionId) to avoid duplicate authorizations on retry.
PCI Scope
Limit retries on PCI-scoped endpoints to avoid expanding cardholder-data exposure.
Capacity Uplift
Higher sustained throughput is provisioned by the Heartland implementation team during merchant onboarding.

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