At a glance
Orders / Day plots your daily Target Plus order count over time as a line chart, turning raw volume into a trend you can plan around. For fulfilment, it is the capacity-planning view: it shows your normal daily load and surfaces the spikes that could threaten the dispatch SLA Target holds partners to near 99% on-time. Read the shape, not just the latest point, to anticipate when a surge will strain your warehouse. A spike you saw coming is one you can staff for before it becomes a late-dispatch problem.
Calculation
Vortex IQ counts Target Plus orders by the day they were placed across the last 30 days and plots each day as a point on a line chart. The series shows your baseline daily volume and any peaks or troughs against it, which is exactly what fulfilment teams need to forecast staffing and inventory. It is a trend view rather than a single tracked threshold, so it carries no alert. Summed across the 30 days, the daily points reconcile to the overall Orders total. The worked example below shows how a visible spike lets a team protect the dispatch SLA.Worked example
A representative reading of Orders / Day for a typical Target Plus partner. Across the 30 days to 23 Jun 26 a toy partner ran a steady baseline of about 40 orders per day. The line chart showed a sharp climb starting 19 Jun 26, peaking at 130 orders on 22 Jun 26 as a Target promotion drove guest traffic. Seeing the spike build in advance, the operations team added a packing shift for the peak days and kept on-time dispatch intact rather than slipping into late-dispatch penalties. Vortex Mind traced the surge to the specific promotion window rather than an organic shift, and Ask Viq answered “are my daily orders spiking enough to risk the dispatch SLA” in plain English so the team could act before the backlog formed.Sibling cards merchants should reference together
Reconciling against Target Plus Partners
Where to look in the Target Plus Partners portal: Use the order reports and group by order date over a matching 30-day window. Compare the per-day counts and the total against this card’s series. Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:
Cross-connector reconciliation: When planning shared warehouse capacity, overlay this trend with daily order series from your BigCommerce store and your Walmart or Amazon channels to see total load rather than Target Plus alone.
Known limitations / merchant FAQs
Q: How often does this number update? It refreshes on the standard Vortex IQ data refresh and plots orders over a rolling 30-day window. Q: Why does the Partners portal show a different daily count? Day boundaries depend on the time zone, and the portal may date orders by confirmation rather than placement. Align the zone and the dating event before reconciling. Q: How does this relate to the sibling cards? It is the daily decomposition oforders, and reading it alongside pending-dispatch and on-time-dispatch-rate-partner-sla shows whether demand is straining fulfilment.
Q: Can I change the alert threshold?
This card is a trend view and ships without an alert, but you can still adjust how it is surfaced on the Alert Rules tab.