Managed API Usage Terms

Last Updated: May 16, 2026

These terms describe how you may use the PaapiPlugin Managed API service ("the Managed API"). They are usage terms only. Payment, billing, refunds, and tax compliance are governed by our general Terms and Conditions and handled through our Merchant of Record, Freemius.

If you also use the underlying PaapiPlugin WordPress plugin with your own Amazon Product Advertising API or Amazon Creators API credentials (the "bring-your-own-credentials" path), the Managed API terms do not apply to that traffic. Both paths are supported and you can switch between them in the plugin admin.

What the Managed API is

The Managed API is a proxy service that returns Amazon product search results and product detail data to the PaapiPlugin WordPress plugin running on your site. We operate the upstream connection to Amazon product data on your behalf. You do not need to apply for, or hold, Amazon API credentials to use it.

Every response we return is tagged with your own Amazon Associate ID at egress. We never inject our tag. We never capture or share your commissions. Your Associate ID is registered server-side when you set up the Managed API and is read from our server, not from any inbound request payload, so it cannot be spoofed by a third party.

Eligibility

To use the Managed API you must:

• Hold a valid Amazon Associates account in good standing (in any Amazon marketplace where Associates is offered).
• Operate the WordPress site that calls the Managed API and have the right to display Amazon product data on that site.
• Use the service in compliance with the Amazon Associates Program Operating Agreement that applies to your marketplace.
• Be at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction.

If your Amazon Associates account is terminated or suspended, you must stop using the Managed API. We are not able to act as a substitute for your own Associates standing.

Free tier and fair use

The free tier of the Managed API includes 20 searches per day and 600 searches per month per WordPress site. These caps are firm. They reset on a rolling basis aligned to your account activation date, not the calendar.

The free tier is intended to let you set up the plugin, demonstrate value on your site, and evaluate the product. It is not intended to support production traffic at scale on its own.

We may temporarily lower or pause free-tier access for a site if usage patterns indicate the free quota is being abused, including but not limited to: running the same search at high frequency to defeat caching, splitting traffic across many sites under a single Associates account to circumvent the per-site quota, or running automated scripts against the free tier outside of normal visitor-driven search use. We will contact you before any permanent restriction and offer an upgrade path.

Premium-tier quotas are listed on the pricing page and may be adjusted upward over time as our shared cache matures. Quota changes apply forward and never reduce a quota you have already paid for in a current billing period.

What you may not do

You may not use the Managed API to:

• Spoof or substitute Associate tags. You may only receive responses tagged with the Associate ID you registered. Attempting to bypass tag injection, scrape the proxy, or extract responses for use with a different Associate ID is a material breach.
• Cookie stuff. Setting Amazon affiliate cookies on a visitor's browser without a clear, contemporaneous click on a tagged link is prohibited by Amazon and by us.
• Run fraudulent or non-human traffic. This includes paid bot traffic, click farms, incentivized clicks, and any traffic pattern Amazon would treat as a violation of its Associates Operating Agreement.
• Promote prohibited categories. You may not use the Managed API on sites whose primary content is in a niche Amazon Associates prohibits in your marketplace (for example, adult content, weapons, certain regulated goods). Refer to the current Amazon Associates Operating Agreement for the authoritative list for your marketplace.
• Resell or redistribute the raw API response. The Managed API is for use by your WordPress site to display Amazon products to your site visitors. Reselling our API to other developers, sublicensing access, or aggregating responses into a product offered to third parties is not permitted under your subscription.
• Reverse-engineer or attack the service. Probing the proxy for vulnerabilities, attempting to enumerate other customers, or running denial-of-service patterns against our infrastructure is prohibited.

If you are unsure whether a use case is allowed, please contact support before launching it. A pre-launch question is much easier to resolve than a post-launch suspension.

No uptime SLA

We monitor the service continuously and alert internally on outages. We will communicate material incidents on the support page or by email to subscribers when an incident is expected to last more than a few hours. Beyond that, we make no specific availability guarantee.

Upstream providers and force majeure

The Managed API depends on a third-party Amazon product-data provider in our launch phase and, over time, on Amazon's own developer APIs. We choose providers carefully, contract for redistribution rights to support your use of the service, and maintain a fallback provider behind the scenes so a single vendor outage does not take the service offline.

Some events are nevertheless outside our reasonable control. These include: an upstream provider revoking access, Amazon changing access terms or revoking credentials, regulatory action, internet routing incidents, denial-of-service events affecting our hosting provider, or natural disasters. If a force-majeure event affects the Managed API, we will:

• Communicate the impact on the support page as soon as we can reliably do so.
• Route traffic to a fallback provider where the contract and the data shape allow it.
• Pause new free signups if needed to protect quality for existing customers.

A force-majeure event does not entitle anyone to a refund of an annual Premium subscription. Refund eligibility is governed by our general Terms and Conditions and applies when the plugin is unusable and we are unable to resolve the issue.

Data we collect through the Managed API

When the plugin calls the Managed API, we receive:

• The search keywords and ASINs requested.
• Your registered Amazon Associate tag.
• Your WordPress site URL.
• The IP address of your WordPress server (not the IP address of your site visitors).

We do not receive end-visitor IP addresses or any end-visitor personal data through the Managed API. Calls are server-to-server between your WordPress installation and our proxy. The full data flow is documented in our Privacy Policy under "Managed API data flows".

If you opt in to marketing email when you request an API key, we will use your email address to send product tips and updates. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email, and opting out of marketing does not affect your API key or service.

Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate access to the Managed API for your account if:

• You materially breach these terms (for example, attempting to spoof tags or running prohibited traffic).
• Your Amazon Associates account is terminated or you lose the right to use an Associate tag.
• Your Premium subscription lapses for the paid tier (the free tier remains available subject to its quota).
• An upstream provider revokes access in a way we cannot route around within a reasonable time.

For non-emergency suspensions, we will give you written notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure. For emergency suspensions (active abuse, credential compromise, legal demand) we may act first and notify you immediately afterward.

You can stop using the Managed API at any time by switching the plugin to bring-your-own-credentials in admin settings, or by cancelling your Premium subscription from your Account portal.

Changes to these terms

We may update these usage terms as the service evolves. Material changes (for example, a meaningful reduction in quota, a new prohibited use case, or a change in the data we collect) will be announced via the support page and, where you are a Premium subscriber, by email at least 14 days before they take effect.

Continued use of the Managed API after the effective date of a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

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