Rate limits exist across PayNet's APIs to prevent spam, abuse, and service overload. Limits are applied to individual APIs on a per-route basis and globally.

It primarily acts as a way to reduce specific clients from generating too much traffic in the system. To ensure stability of the platform and a good user experience for everyone using it, there may be times where you encounter this feature. Usually it means that your solution is making too many requests in a certain amount of time, and that you should try and reduce the traffic you generate.

If you get an error similar to the one below, you've hit the rate limit and should throttled the request frequency before resuming testing activity.

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 14:12:16 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 40
Connection: keep-alive
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000
CF-Cache-Status: DYNAMIC
Expect-CT: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
Server: cloudflare
CF-RAY: 6f835b74fd08756c-KUL

{
  "error": "Quota has been exceeded"
}