At a glance
Daily Authorize.Net settled volume across the period. The time-series view of aut_total_volume. Reveals batch-cut-off-day spikes (16:00 PT cut-off creates a daily settled-volume rhythm), weekday vs weekend B2B patterns, and end-of-month invoice surges.
| What it counts | Daily SUM(settleAmount) where transactionStatus = settledSuccessfully, grouped by settlement date (the date the nightly batch closed). |
| API endpoint | getSettledBatchListRequest for batch-day totals; getTransactionListForBatch for per-batch detail. |
| Currency | USD-dominant; multi-currency rendered per-currency-stacked. |
| Refunds | NOT deducted (refunds are a separate trend). |
| Disputes / chargebacks | NOT deducted. |
| Failed / declined payments | Excluded. |
| Batch boundary | 16:00 PT cut-off. Captures after 16:00 PT roll into the next batch (next day’s settlement). |
| Weekend behaviour | Authorize.Net batches every day; the acquirer funds Mon-Fri only. Saturday and Sunday batches both fund on the following Monday or Tuesday. |
| Holidays | US Federal Reserve holidays (e.g. Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas) suspend acquirer funding but not Authorize.Net batching. |
| eCheck.Net (ACH) | Counted in trend; ACH lag of 3 to 5 business days means eCheck volume appears on the original transaction date but funds days later. |
| Time window | 30D vsP (default 30D vs prior 30D). |
| Alert trigger | drop >15% vsP. |
| Roles | owner, finance, operations |
Calculation
Calculated automatically from your Authorize.net data. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.Worked example
“Heartland Hardware Co.”, week of 27 Apr 26 to 03 May 26.| Date (settled) | Volume | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 27 Apr 26 | USD 84,200 | High weekday B2B |
| Tue 28 Apr 26 | USD 91,400 | Continued B2B |
| Wed 29 Apr 26 | USD 78,900 | Mid-week |
| Thu 30 Apr 26 | USD 142,800 | End-of-month invoice surge |
| Fri 01 May 26 | USD 68,400 | Tail of EOM, ARB rebill cluster |
| Sat 02 May 26 | USD 31,200 | Weekend, web-only |
| Sun 03 May 26 | USD 24,600 | Weekend, web-only |
- Weekday B2B pulse. Mon to Thu averages USD 99,300; Sat to Sun averages USD 27,900. The 3.5x weekday-weekend ratio is typical for B2B-heavy merchants. Web-only stores see a 1.2x to 1.5x ratio at most.
- End-of-month spike (Thursday). Procurement teams batch-place orders to close their April. A USD 142,800 day vs the USD 84,000 weekday baseline is 1.7x. Watch the EOM Thursday or Friday in every month for forecasting.
- First-of-month ARB rebill cluster. The 184 active ARB subscriptions all rebill on the merchant’s chosen schedule (typically the 1st). USD 92,400 / 30 days = USD 3,080 daily flat; on the rebill day it lumps to USD 92,400. The trend chart shows this as a one-day spike.
- Saturday low. B2B procurement is offline; only consumer DIY traffic on the web checkout. A Saturday day at less than 25% of Wednesday’s number means almost no B2B that day.
- A drop > 15% vsP triggers alert. Compare the rolling 7-day to the prior 7-day; a sustained drop (not a single weekend) suggests gateway issue, FDS rule tightening, or upstream commerce-platform problem.
Sibling cards merchants should reference together
| Card | Why pair it with Volume Trend |
|---|---|
aut_total_volume | Period-aggregate view, this card daily. |
aut_total_transactions | Daily count, pair to see whether trend movement is volume or count driven. |
aut_avg_transaction | The AOV reading, helps distinguish basket-size shifts from count shifts. |
aut_decline_rate | Decline-rate spikes often precede volume drops. |
Stripe stripe_revenue_trend / PayPal pp_volume_trend | Same archetype on competing rails. |
Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard
Where to look in the Authorize.Net Dashboard: account.authorize.net → Reports → Transaction Statistics with daily granularity, or Reports → Settled Transactions with date filter and grouping. Why our number may differ:| Reason | Direction | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Time zone | Boundary days off | Pacific batch cut-off vs UTC; transactions on the day boundary can land in either day. |
| Batch closure timing | Either | A batch that closed at 15:59 PT on day N vs 16:01 PT (rolling to N+1) shifts ~30 minutes of transactions. |
| Refresh lag | Today’s last 5 to 15 minutes | Latest transactions may not be in. |
| Comparison | Expected | Why divergence |
|---|---|---|
aut_volume_trend ↔ commerce-platform daily revenue trend | Same shape, lower amplitude on Authorize.Net | Other gateways carry some traffic. |
aut_volume_trend ↔ stripe.stripe_revenue_trend | Different shape on weekends | Card-not-present consumer traffic is more weekend-heavy than B2B Authorize.Net. |
Known limitations / merchant FAQs
Why does the trend show daily zeros on weekends sometimes? Pure-B2B distributors have near-zero weekend volume; the chart will show a sawtooth (Mon-Fri spikes, Sat-Sun dips). Web-heavy stores show a smoother curve. Both are normal. A single day’s volume is 3x the weekly average, what gives? Most often end-of-month or end-of-quarter invoice batching. Procurement teams place orders to close a fiscal period. A lesser cause is a fulfilled backorder release. A fraud-cluster spike (single bad campaign) is a third pattern, checkaut_decline_rate for an accompanying decline spike if so.
The trend dropped to zero for one day, gateway down?
Possibly. Check status.authorize.net for that day. More commonly the merchant’s commerce platform was down, or a deploy broke checkout. Authorize.Net itself has a strong uptime record (99.99% historical), but downstream issues at the merchant create the same chart symptom.
Why does ARB rebill day always spike?
ARB rebills run on the merchant’s configured schedule; if all subscriptions are on the 1st-of-month, that day shows the lumped rebill volume. To smooth, stagger rebills across the month; ARB supports per-subscription billing-day configuration but most merchants don’t set it.
Visa ownership of Authorize.Net, did it improve uptime?
Marginal benefit at most. Authorize.Net’s infrastructure is well-established; Visa’s parent ownership doesn’t change deployment cadence or uptime SLA materially.
Holiday volume zero, but my Authorize.Net Dashboard shows volume, why?
Authorize.Net batches on holidays (the gateway runs); the acquirer doesn’t fund on holidays. This card uses settlement (capture) date so the day shows volume. The bank deposit lag widens on holidays, see aut_avg_settlement_days.
Comparing year-over-year, what to watch?
Same-day-of-week alignment, not same-date. 30 Apr 25 was a Wednesday; 30 Apr 26 is a Thursday. Compare Wednesday-to-Wednesday for B2B trends, not date-to-date.