we are currently developing a car part shop with 40.000 Products. All products has been maintained in Plentymarkets as this is the leading material master system.
With the daily sycronisation we only get around 3.000 new Products per day available in Shopify.
Is there an API limitation for product generation and sync per day?
Is there also an limitation for product update? E.g. if we would like to update the stock from the 40.000 Product overnight, will this work later?
The following Admin API resources, in both GraphQL and REST versions, have an additional throttle that takes effect when a store has 50,000 product variants. After this threshold is reached, no more than 1,000 new variants can be created per day.
In certain cases, Shopify needs to enforce rate limiting in order to prevent abuse of the platform. Therefore, your app should be prepared to handle rate limiting on all endpoints, rather than just those listed here.
Shopify Plus
These additional limits don’t apply to stores on the Shopify Plus plan.
Is it possible to update the stock for 40.000 overnight?
Are you looking at product counts, or product variant counts? Those are different things.
The limit talks specifically about variants. Perhaps your 40k products has more than 50k variants so the limit you’re hitting is the one I’m talking about.
Now if you are still hitting hurdles then getting some clear screenshots, error messages, (or API request IDs) is prob the next step.
If you’re abusing the APIs then there’s always the chance you’ve been throttled but you’d have a pretty good sense of that based on what you’re doing and anything on that front is temporary.