Christmas is fast approaching, and online retailers should be gearing up for the increased volumes of trade that peak on Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday is known as the busiest internet shopping day of the year. It is called Cyber Monday due to the fact that it happens every year on the first Monday of December.

Last year Amazon UK fulfilled 1.4 million items on Cyber Monday. At once stage this resulted in 16 items per second being ordered and the most items ordered in a 24 hour period.