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Card class: HeroCategory: Marketplace

At a glance

Late Shipments is a real-time fulfilment alert for your Bonanza booth. It lists every order that has passed its ship-by deadline without a tracked dispatch, so a slipping order surfaces the moment it goes overdue rather than after a buyer complains. It sits in the Nerve Centre alert layer and pairs with the on-time and pending-shipment cards below to give operations a full dispatch picture.
What it countsBonanza orders that are past their ship-by deadline and not yet marked dispatched.
Sample typeBackend API data from Bonanza, refreshed on the standard data refresh.
Why it mattersLate dispatch on Bonanza erodes booth rating and buyer trust and feeds disputes and cancellations. Catching overdue orders early lets owners and operations clear them before they damage standing.
Reading the valueAny order in this list is actionable now. Treat a non-empty list as a same-day task and work it down to zero.
Currencynumber
Time windowRT
Alert triggerany order past ship_deadline
Sentiment keybon_alert_dispatch_sla_miss
Rolesowner, operations

Calculation

This is a real-time alert rather than a rolling metric. Vortex IQ compares each open Bonanza order’s ship-by deadline against the current time and lists any order that has passed its deadline without a recorded dispatch. The list refreshes as orders are shipped or new ones go overdue. See the At a glance summary above for the trigger condition and the worked example below for a typical fire.

Worked example

A representative reading of Late Shipments for a typical merchant on Bonanza. On 14 Mar 26 a booth that normally clears dispatch by mid-morning shows 3 orders on the Late Shipments alert after a carrier pickup was missed the previous afternoon. The merchant opens the list, sees all three are same-warehouse items, prints labels and dispatches them by noon, clearing the alert and protecting the booth rating. Left unattended, those three orders would likely have triggered buyer messages and a dent in on-time shipping rate. Vortex Mind traces the upstream cause to the missed pickup, and Ask Viq lets the owner ask in plain English which buyers were affected.

Sibling cards merchants should reference together

CardWhy merchants reach for it
bon_on_time_ship_rateFulfilment sibling: On-Time Shipping Rate.
bon_pending_shipFulfilment sibling: Pending Shipment.
bon_cancellation_rateFulfilment sibling: Cancellation Rate.
bon_orders_per_dayFulfilment sibling: Orders / Day.
bon_marketplace_health_scoreExecutive sibling: Bonanza Booth Health Score.

Reconciling against Bonanza

Where to look in Bonanza’s own dashboard: Check your Bonanza selling area under orders, where each sale shows its ship-by date and dispatch status, to confirm which orders are overdue and which have tracking attached. Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:
ReasonDirectionWhat to do
Period boundary. Vortex IQ evaluates live overdue state by default; Bonanza dashboards may group orders by calendar day.VariableMatch the period range.
Time zone. Bonanza uses account time zone; Vortex IQ aligns to merchant reporting time zone.MarginalConfirm time zone match.
Filter scope. Profile-level filters (booth, channel, test orders) may narrow the Vortex IQ view.VariableMatch filter settings.
Cross-connector reconciliation: complement with sibling cards in the same category for the full diagnostic picture. For divergence investigations, use Vortex Mind.

Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Q: How often does Late Shipments update? This is a real-time alert. Vortex IQ re-checks ship-by deadlines on each data refresh (typically every 30-60 minutes for live integrations) and lists newly overdue orders immediately. Force a manual refresh from the dashboard for an instant re-check after you dispatch. Q: Why does my Bonanza dashboard show a different number? The most common reasons are time-zone alignment (an order may be “due today” in one zone and overdue in another), tracking-upload lag (an order you shipped may still show as overdue until tracking syncs), and filter scope. Match these settings before assuming a real divergence. Q: An order shows here but I already shipped it - why? Bonanza marks an order dispatched once tracking is attached and synced. If you shipped without uploading tracking, or tracking is still propagating, the order stays on the list until the dispatch record reaches Vortex IQ on the next refresh. Q: Can I customise the alert threshold? Yes, sensitivity thresholds are configurable per profile in the Sensitivity tab. Adjust to match your business baseline rather than relying on the generic default.

Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Late Shipments is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Bonanza and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English. Start for free or book a demo to see this metric running on your own data.