At a glance
Pending Shipment is a fulfilment metric tracked from Vinted data. It counts paid orders still waiting to be dispatched. On Vinted the buyer pays up front and the ship-by clock starts at once, so the pending queue is the work standing between you and a clean dispatch record. A queue that grows faster than you can pack is the direct precursor to late shipments, cancellations, and unhappy buyers.
Calculation
Calculated automatically from your Vinted data. Vortex IQ counts paid orders that have not yet been dispatched, comparing the live count against your recent average to judge whether the queue is building. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.Worked example
A representative reading of Pending Shipment for a typical Pro seller on Vinted. The queue normally sits around 8 orders, cleared daily. After a weekend away it reads 21, more than twice the recent average, so the alert fires. None are late yet, but several are close to their ship-by deadline. The action is straightforward: clear the backlog today, prioritising the orders nearest their deadline, before they tip into the late-shipments list. The structural fix is a weekend packing plan or a holiday-mode pause so the queue never builds to this point. For deeper investigation, use Vortex Mind to see whether backlogs recur on the same days; for natural-language exploration, ask Ask Viq.Sibling cards merchants should reference together
Reconciling against Vinted
Where to look in Vinted’s own dashboard: Vinted shows orders awaiting dispatch in your sold-items or “to ship” view, each with its ship-by countdown. Reconcile by counting orders shown as paid but not yet dispatched against this card. Why the Vortex IQ value may legitimately differ:
Cross-connector reconciliation: complement with late shipments and the ships-within-5-days rate for the full dispatch picture. For divergence investigations, use Vortex Mind.