At a glance
Listings in 7-Day Freshness Boost is the share of your active listings under 7 days old, the window in which Mercari pushes items higher in search. A low share means most of your catalogue is sitting stale and invisible, which is a re-listing opportunity.
Calculation
Vortex IQ reads the creation or last-relisted date for each active listing and counts those younger than 7 days. That count is divided by your total active listings to produce a live percentage. Sold, ended, and draft listings are excluded so the figure reflects only what is currently discoverable. Because it is real-time, the share naturally decays day by day as listings age out of the boost window unless you create or re-list stock.Worked example
A representative reading of Listings in 7-Day Freshness Boost for a typical Mercari reseller. Imagine a seller with 200 active listings, of which only 60 are under a week old. That is 30 percent in boost, below the<40% (re-list opportunity) threshold. It means roughly 140 listings are aging out of Mercari’s search lift and quietly losing impressions. The action is straightforward: re-list a rolling batch of your oldest active items so a steady share always sits inside the 7-day window, rather than letting the whole catalogue go cold at once. Cross-reference mer_listings_active for the denominator and mer_total_revenue to confirm whether the re-listing cadence lifts sales. Vortex Mind traces upstream causes, such as a paused re-listing routine, and Ask Viq answers plain-English questions like “which listings dropped out of the freshness boost this week?”
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Reconciling against Mercari
Where to look in Mercari’s own dashboard: Mercari does not surface a freshness-boost percentage directly. In the seller app you can open your active listings and sort by newest to estimate how many fall inside the last 7 days. This card calculates that share for you automatically. Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:
Cross-connector reconciliation: Freshness boost is specific to Mercari’s ranking, so there is no direct equivalent on other marketplaces; compare re-listing cadence instead. For divergence investigations, use Vortex Mind.