At a glance
Orders / Day plots your daily order count over the last 30 days as a line. It reveals your selling rhythm, the weekday and weekend pattern, and the visible bump after a re-listing batch or a round of price drops.
| What it counts | The number of orders placed each day across the trailing 30 days, drawn as a daily line chart. |
| Sample type | Backend API data from Mercari, refreshed on the standard data refresh. |
| Why it matters | Daily cadence tells you when buyers act and whether your interventions work. A flat or falling line is a prompt to re-list or adjust pricing; a spike confirms what is working. |
| Reading the value | Read the shape, not a single point. Look for the weekly rhythm, the baseline level, and any step-changes that line up with your actions. |
| Currency | number |
| Time window | 30D |
| Alert trigger | - |
| Sentiment key | mer_orders_per_day |
| Roles | owner, operations |
Calculation
Vortex IQ counts completed orders for each calendar day across the trailing 30 days and plots them as a time series. Days with no orders are shown as zero rather than skipped, so the line keeps an even daily spacing. Because it is a daily count, the chart naturally exposes weekday-versus-weekend rhythm and any step-change that follows a re-listing batch, a price drop, or a Smart Pricing adjustment.Worked example
A representative reading of Orders / Day for a typical Mercari reseller. Imagine a seller whose line hovers around 3 orders a day, climbs to 6 or 7 on Sundays, then jumps to 12 the day after a 40-item re-listing batch before settling back. That tells you two useful things: weekends are your strongest window, and re-listing produces a real, if short-lived, lift. The action is to time re-listing and price drops to land just before your strong days rather than spreading them thinly. There is no alert on this card, so use it as a diagnostic. Cross-referencemer_listings_in_freshness_boost to see whether the re-listing lift coincides with more stock in the boost window, and mer_total_revenue to confirm the orders carried value. Vortex Mind traces upstream causes behind a sustained dip, and Ask Viq answers plain-English questions like “which day this month sold the most orders?”
Sibling cards merchants should reference together
| Card | Why merchants reach for it |
|---|---|
mer_total_transactions | Totals the orders that the daily line breaks out. |
mer_listings_in_freshness_boost | Links order bumps to fresh, boosted listings. |
mer_total_revenue | Confirms whether busier days carried real value. |
mer_aov | Shows whether order spikes came at the cost of lower value. |
mer_orders_by_country | Adds the geographic dimension to daily volume. |
Reconciling against Mercari
Where to look in Mercari’s own dashboard: In the Mercari seller app, your sales history lists each order with its date. Counting orders per day there should match this chart, though Mercari shows them as a list rather than a daily line. Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:| Reason | Direction | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Period boundary. An order placed near midnight may fall on a different day depending on the cutoff used. | Variable | Match the period range. |
| Time zone. Order timestamps may be recorded in a different time zone, shifting an order between adjacent days. | Marginal | Confirm time zone match. |
| Filter scope. This card counts completed orders only, excluding cancelled or pending items. | Variable | Match filter settings. |