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Squarespace Rate Limits

Squarespace Commerce APIs enforce a global limit of 300 requests per minute (an equivalent bandwidth of five requests per second). The Create Order endpoint carries a separate, stricter limit of 100 requests per hour per website when an API key is used for authentication; that stricter limit explicitly does not apply when OAuth is used. Exceeding a limit returns 429 Too Many Requests with a one-minute cool-down period. Squarespace additionally warns that requests sent with a default HTTP-client User-Agent (for example "curl/7.54.0") may be subject to stricter rate limiting, and that requests with no User-Agent header at all are rejected outright — a rate-limit input that is not a numeric quota and is easy to miss.

Squarespace Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Squarespace on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions.

Limit state is signalled in the published and note response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Commerce, E-Commerce, and Rate Limiting.

2 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 publishednote
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-13 — developers.squarespace.com/commerce-apis/rate-limits.
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CommerceE-CommerceRate Limiting

Limits

Global Commerce API limit per-website
· per 1m
300/1m
Create Order (API key) per-website
· per 1h
100/1h
Documented as a separate, stricter limit that applies only when an API key is used for authentication. OAuth-authenticated callers are not subject to it.

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