AppFolio Rate Limits

Overview

AppFolio's Stack API enforces per-partner rate limits to protect shared property management infrastructure. High-volume operations like bulk tenant imports, rent-roll syncs, and work-order batch updates can quickly exhaust quotas. Property managers running nightly portfolio syncs across hundreds of units must throttle carefully, especially during month-end when lease renewals and payment processing spike concurrently.

Prerequisites

• A verified per-endpoint limit from the current AppFolio partner contract or response headers; do not rely on a generic rate value for tenant writes.
• Persisted batch cursors, idempotency keys for every write, and an operator policy for pausing month-end or other safety-sensitive workloads.
• A staging fixture and request-budget owner who can prove retries, 429 behavior, and unknown-write handling without touching production tenants.

Instructions