At a glance
Orders by Buyer Country is a geography metric tracked from Alibaba data. It maps where your B2B buyers are placing orders, so you can see how the US and EU, South East Asia, and Latin America mix shifts over time. The card sits in the Geography category and pairs with revenue-by-geography and AOV siblings, because the country mix shapes shipping economics and currency hedging. Cross-reference the related cards listed below for context.
Calculation
Vortex IQ groups B2B orders from the trailing 30-day window by the buyer’s country and counts orders per country, then renders the result as a choropleth where darker shading means more orders. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.Worked example
A representative reading of Orders by Buyer Country for a typical Alibaba supplier. Suppose the 30 days ending 12 Mar 26 show 310 orders, with 96 from the United States, 71 from Germany, 54 from Vietnam, 38 from Brazil, and the remainder spread across smaller markets. The map shades North America and Western Europe darkest, but the marketing owner notices Vietnam climbing fast versus the prior month, which hints at a new South East Asia distributor relationship worth nurturing. Because the country mix drives freight and currency exposure, finance is flagged to review hedging on the growing Latin America tail. For deeper investigation of which products are pulling each market, use Vortex Mind to trace upstream causes; for natural-language exploration such as “which countries grew fastest this month”, ask Ask Viq.Sibling cards merchants should reference together
Reconciling against Alibaba Seller dashboard
Where to look in Alibaba’s own dashboard: Open the Alibaba Supplier workbench, go to the data or analytics section, and look for buyer or visitor analytics broken down by country or region. Order-level country data also appears under Trade then Order Management when you filter or sort by buyer location. Confirm period boundaries and filter settings match the Vortex IQ profile to reconcile cleanly. Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:
Cross-connector reconciliation: complement with sibling cards in the same category for the full diagnostic picture. For divergence investigations, use Vortex Mind.