Shipments average time in picking

How to use the Metrics API to get the average time your shipments stay in picking status before being packed

The problem

You want to get the average time your order shipments remain in the picking status before being moved to packing, over a selected date and time range.

The solution

Query

You need to perform a stats query setting the required query keys as follows and adding the optional ones based on your needs:

Key	Value
field	shipments.seconds_in_picking
operator	avg

Filter

Make sure to set the desired date and time range using the date_from and date_to keys in the filter.

As shown in the example below, use placed_at as the date_field in the date filter if you want the results to count all the orders that were placed in the selected date and time range (read more about this).

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Example

Request

The following request uses the Metrics API to get the average time shipments stay in picking:

curl -g -X POST \
  'https://{{your_domain}}.commercelayer.io/metrics/orders/stats' \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.api.v1+json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{your_access_token}}' \
  -d '{
    "stats": {
      "field": "shipments.seconds_in_picking",
      "operator": "avg"
    },
    "filter": {
      "order": {
        "date_from": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z",
        "date_to": "2021-12-31T23:59:00Z",
        "date_field": "placed_at"
      }
    }
  }'

Response

On success, the API responds with a 200 OK status code, returning the computed value in the data object and additional information in the meta object:

{
  "data": {
    "value": 123456.78
  },
  "meta": {
    "type": "stats",
    "trace_id": "fe571ea2-8a4f-4a5e-bd26-ac54651bb2e4",
    "mode": "test",
    "organization_id": "xYZkjABcde",
    "market_ids": [ "yzXKjYzaCx", "..." ]
  }
}

Similar cases

Just changing a couple of query keys and/or filter parameters you can address lots of very similar use cases, such as:

• Total number of orders over a specific period of time

• Total number of orders paid with a coupon

• Total number of orders paid with a gift card

• Total number of orders paid with a specific coupon code

• Total number of orders that triggered a specific promotion

• Total number of orders that took more than 5 minutes to be placed

• Total number of refunded orders

• Total number of returned orders

• Total number of orders to which a discount was applied

• Total orders with a personalization option

• Mixed stats about the number of products per order

• Total number of orders containing a specific list of products

• Total number of orders with amounts greater than $100

• Total number of customers over a specific period of time

• Mixed stats about returns that contain more than one product

• Total number of pending carts with more than one product

• Total amount lost due to potentially abandoned carts over a specific period of time

• Total number of pending carts with amount greater than 100€

• Total number of customers who bought a specific product or bundle