Published limits

The Content API for Shopping imposes quotas and hard limitations on some features. The quotas and limits shown below are provided solely to assist you in developing applications that use the Content API for Shopping. All quotas and limits are subject to elimination, reduction, or change at any time, without notice.

Method call quotas

Default limits

The following limits are the default method call quotas for Merchant Center accounts.

• Users exceeding the per minute quota will receive quota/request_rate_too_high errors.
• Users exceeding the per day quota will receive quota/daily_limit_exceeded errors.

If you require a higher quota of a particular method than listed here, contact us by the Content API for Shopping support forum to request an increase.

Here are some things to keep in mind:

• The quotas here are per-method. For example, the get method has a separate quota of calls from the update method, though the size of those quotas is the same.
• For quota usage, patch methods count as both a get call and an update call.
• Each method call within a custombatch call is counted separately against its specific quota.
• Calls count against the quota of the account you're added to as a user:
  • If you're added to the subaccount directly, the subaccount is charged.
  • If you're added the MCA account only, then the MCA account is charged.

Here are the default limits. For the most up-to-date information on the limits for your merchant account, Check your quotas.

Service	Method	Per minute	Per day
accounts	authinfo Other methods	600 1,000	10,000 10,000
accounts.labels	All methods	1,000	10,000
accountstatuses	All methods	1,000	10,000
accounttax	All methods	1,000	10,000
buyongoogleprograms	All methods	100	1,000
cssproducts	All methods	5,000	6,000,000
datafeeds	fetchnow Other methods	10 200	200 10,000
datafeedstatuses	All methods	500	10,000
freelistingsprogram	All methods	100	1,000
liasettings	requestgmbaccess setinventoryverificationcontact setomnichannelexperience requestinventoryverification Other methods	500 500 500 500 1,000	500 500 500 500 10,000
localinventory	Read methods Write methods	40 100,000	40,000 100,000,000
orders	All methods	10,000	1,000,000
orders sandbox	All methods	40	10,000
orderinvoices	All methods	10,000	1,000,000
orderreports	All methods	10,000	1,000,000
orderreturns	All methods	10,000	1,000,000
orderreturns.labels	All methods	30	10,000
pos	All methods	5,000	1,000,000
products	All methods	60,000	20,000,000
promotions	Read methods Write methods	1,000 500	10,000 500
productstatuses	All methods	60,000	20,000,000
regionalinventory	Read methods Write methods	40 100,000	40,000 100,000,000
regions	Read methods Write methods	250 10	25,000 25,000
reports	All methods	100	100,000
settlementreports	All methods	10,000	1,000,000
settlementtransactions	All methods	10,000	1,000,000
shippingsettings	All methods	1,000	10,000
shoppingadsprogram	All methods	100	1,000
quotas	All methods	10	1,000

Check your quotas

If your account has a quota increase, your method call quotas might be different from the defaults listed in the previous section.

You can use quotas.list to view the current method call quotas and method usage for your account.

Resource representation limits

The following limits describe notable restrictions for certain string values and array fields within the resource representations used in the Content API. These limits are the same for both the Content API and their corresponding feature in the Merchant Center. This list of limits may not be complete, and these limits cannot be extended.

Resource	Field	Limit
shippingsettings	Shipping services per country (services). Shipping groups per shipping service (rateGroups). Labels per shipping group (applicableShippingLabels). Subtables per shipping group (subtables). Number of rows or columns in a single rate table. Length of shipping labels.	20 20 30 100 150 100

The number of rows or columns in a rate table affects the following array fields:

• Array fields within rowHeaders or columnHeaders:
  • prices[]
  • weights[]
  • numberOfItems[]
  • postalCodeGroupNames[]
  • locations[]
  • rows[]
  • cells[]