Admin Rest api call limit during downgrading from shopify plus

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Topic summary

Clarifications requested before downgrading from Shopify Plus to the Shopify plan.

Key questions:

  • Admin API rate limit: With a cited limit of 2 requests/second, does this throttle apply only to Shopify Admin API calls they make (e.g., Create Order), or would it also affect outbound calls their storefront makes to external REST APIs (third‑party services)?
  • Downgrade path: Can the same existing Shopify Plus account/store be directly downgraded to the standard Shopify plan, or is a new account/store required?

Context/impact: The answers affect order creation workflows and storefront integrations after the downgrade.

Status: No responses yet; guidance pending and the thread remains unresolved.

Summarized with AI on January 3. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi, We wanted to downgrade from the Shopify plus account to Shopify plan. We had the following questions:
•⁠ ⁠The admin api rate limit of 2 requests/sec - Does this only affect the shopify apis that we call such as the create order on shopify API? Or will it also affect the external rest apis that we call from our storefront?
•⁠ ⁠Can our same shopify plus account be downgraded to shopify plan?