At a glance
Active Target Plus Listings for OOS SKUs on BC is a Cross-Platform: Revenue at Risk metric. It joins your live Target Plus listings against BigCommerce inventory, matching on the shared SKU, and counts the SKUs that are still live and sellable on Target Plus while showing out of stock on BigCommerce. Every such SKU is an order Target Plus can take that you cannot fulfil, which forces a cancellation and feeds straight into the partner-status review. This is the highest-priority sync gap on the board, because a single unfulfillable order can dent the on-time and cancellation metrics that protect partner status.
Calculation
Vortex IQ matches every active Target Plus listing to its BigCommerce product by the shared SKU identifier, since BigCommerce is the inventory source of truth for these merchants. For each matched pair it checks two states at once - whether the Target Plus listing is live and sellable, and whether the BigCommerce stock level is zero or below the sellable threshold - and counts the SKU when both are true. Listings that Target Plus has already paused, and SKUs that hold stock on BigCommerce, are excluded so the value only ever reflects a true fulfilment gap. Because the window is real time, the count reflects the current state rather than a rolling average. The worked example below shows how a typical reading breaks down.Worked example
A representative reading of Active Target Plus Listings for OOS SKUs on BC for a typical Target Plus partner. On 20 Jun 26 a kitchenware partner sold through the last units of a popular knife set across its other channels, and BigCommerce dropped those SKUs to zero stock. The inventory sync to Target Plus lagged, so on the real-time reading the card showed 3 SKUs live and sellable on Target Plus while out of stock on BigCommerce, tripping the alert at any value above zero. Within the hour Target Plus took an order against one of them that the partner could not ship. Vortex Mind traced the upstream cause to a stalled inventory push that had not run since the BigCommerce stock change, and Ask Viq returned the 3 affected SKUs in plain English so the team could pause the Target Plus listings and clear the gap before more orders landed.Sibling cards merchants should reference together
Reconciling against Target Plus Partners
Where to look in the Target Plus Partners portal: The Partners portal shows each listing’s status and the stock figure Target currently holds for it, but it shows only Target’s own side. To reconcile this metric you compare against the other source, opening the matching product in the BigCommerce admin to confirm the true stock level. The portal will happily report a SKU as sellable while BigCommerce, your inventory source of truth, says there is nothing to ship. Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:
Cross-connector reconciliation: Reconcile this metric against BigCommerce inventory rather than against Target Plus alone, since the Partners portal cannot see your authoritative stock levels, and use Vortex Mind for any divergence investigation.