> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vortexiq.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Orders / Day, Etsy > Orders / Day for Etsy stores. Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre. How to read it, why it matters, and how to act on it. **Card class:** [Non-Hero](/nerve-centre/overview#card-classes-explained) • **Category:** [Marketplace](/nerve-centre/connectors#connectors-by-type) ## At a glance > **Orders / Day** plots your daily Etsy order count as a line over time, turning a month of sales into a shape you can read in seconds. An Etsy seller cares because the daily rhythm is where demand signals live: a launch spike, a weekend lull, the lift from an Etsy Ads push, or the dip that follows a listing expiring or sliding down search. Good looks like a steady line with healthy peaks that you can tie to known causes. Bad looks like an unexplained step-down that holds for several days, which usually points to a visibility problem, a stock-out on a hero listing, or a processing backlog you need to clear before it dents your Star Seller shipping rate. | | | | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **What it counts** | The number of orders placed each day across the window, drawn as a line chart. | | **Sample type** | Backend API data from Etsy, refreshed on the standard data refresh. | | **Why it matters** | The daily shape reveals demand patterns, launch and ad effects, and sudden drops far earlier than a monthly total ever could. | | **Reading the value** | Read the trend, not a single day. A one-day spike or dip is noise; a sustained shift in the line is the signal. Tie peaks and troughs to known events to learn what moves your shop. | | **Currency** | Number (orders per day). | | **Time window** | `30D` | | **Alert trigger** | `-` | | **Sentiment key** | `ets_orders_per_day` | | **Roles** | owner, operations | ## Calculation Each order is bucketed by the day it was placed, in your shop's time zone, and the daily counts are drawn as a line across the trailing 30 days. Because it counts orders by placement date, a day with a flurry of small orders shows a tall point even if their total value is modest. The chart is descriptive: it has no pass-or-fail line, and its value is in the shape and the way peaks and troughs line up with launches, ads, expiries, and stock-outs. ## Worked example *Illustrative numbers.* A candle shop watches Orders / Day sit around 12 to 15 for weeks, then sees the line step down to roughly 6 from 18 Jun 26 onward, with no recovery. Opening the card on 23 Jun 26, the owner cross-checks and finds a best-selling listing expired on 18 Jun 26 and was never renewed, dropping it out of search. They renew the listing for \$0.20, refresh its 13 tags, and the daily line recovers over the next few days. To confirm the expiry was the true cause rather than a seasonal dip, the owner uses Vortex Mind to trace what changed on 18 Jun 26, then asks Ask Viq, "what caused my orders per day to halve last week", for a plain-English answer. ## Sibling cards merchants should reference together | Card | Why merchants reach for it | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | | [`revenue-over-time`](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/etsy/revenue-over-time) | The money companion to the volume line; read them side by side. | | [`total-transactions`](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/etsy/total-transactions) | The window total this daily line adds up to. | | [`orders-by-country`](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/etsy/orders-by-country) | Adds the geographic dimension to the daily volume picture. | | [`listings-expiring-soon`](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/etsy/listings-expiring-soon) | Flags the renewals that, if missed, cause a sudden daily drop. | | [`out-of-stock-listings`](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/etsy/out-of-stock-listings) | A common cause of an unexplained step-down in daily orders. | ## Reconciling against Etsy Shop Manager **Where to look in Etsy Shop Manager:** Reconcile against Shop Manager > Stats, where you can view orders over a date range, and Shop Manager > Orders & Shipping, which lists individual orders by date. Stats is the closest native equivalent to this card's daily line. **Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:** | Reason | Direction | What to do | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Time zone bucketing.** The card buckets orders by your shop's time zone; an order near midnight can land on a different day than Etsy shows in another zone. | Marginal | Compare day totals rather than individual edge-of-day orders. | | **Cancellations.** A cancelled order may drop from one view's day count sooner than the other. | Marginal | Reconcile against a settled day a few days back. | | **Window length.** The card fixes a trailing 30-day view; Stats lets you pick any range. | Marginal | Set the Stats range to match before comparing the lines. | **Cross-connector reconciliation:** If a daily drop coincides across channels, use Vortex Mind to check whether the cause is shop-specific or a wider demand or pricing shift affecting all your sales channels. ## Known limitations / merchant FAQs **Q: Should I act on a single low day?** No. One quiet day is usually noise, especially over a weekend or a public holiday. Act when the line holds at a new lower level for several days, which signals a real change rather than normal variation. **Q: Does the line count orders or items?** It counts orders. A single order containing several items shows as one point, so a busy day of multi-item orders looks the same as a day of single-item orders at the same order count. **Q: Why does my Etsy Shop Manager show a different number?** The card buckets by your shop's time zone over a fixed trailing 30 days, while Stats may use a different range and an order near midnight can fall on either side of the day boundary. Match the range and compare daily totals. **Q: Can I customise the alert threshold?** This card ships without an alert because a daily line is descriptive. You can still add a sensitivity rule per profile in the Sensitivity tab, for example to flag when the daily order count drops sharply below its recent average. *** ### Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre *Orders / Day* is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Etsy 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](https://app.vortexiq.ai/login) or [book a demo](https://www.vortexiq.ai/contact-us) to see this metric running on your own data.