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Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Document Type dei_DocumentType Other
Document Period End Date dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate Nov. 30, 2012
Registrant Name dei_EntityRegistrantName ADVISORONE FUNDS
Central Index Key dei_EntityCentralIndexKey 0001029068
Amendment Flag dei_AmendmentFlag false
Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol adv
Document Creation Date dei_DocumentCreationDate Sep. 21, 2013
Document Effective Date dei_DocumentEffectiveDate Sep. 21, 2013
Prospectus Date rr_ProspectusDate Sep. 30, 2013
HORIZON ACTIVE INCOME FUND
  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Risk/Return [Heading] rr_RiskReturnHeading

FUND SUMMARY
Objective [Heading] rr_ObjectiveHeading

Investment Objective:
Objective, Primary [Text Block] rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock

The Fund’s investment objective is income.
Expense [Heading] rr_ExpenseHeading

Fees and Expenses of the Fund:
Expense Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] rr_OperatingExpensesCaption

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssetsDateOfTermination 2015-03-31
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading

Portfolio Turnover:
Portfolio Turnover [Text Block] rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance.
Other Expenses, New Fund, Based on Estimates [Text] rr_OtherExpensesNewFundBasedOnEstimates

Other expenses are estimated for the current fiscal year.
Expense Example [Heading] rr_ExpenseExampleHeading

Example:
Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.
Expense Example by, Year, Caption [Text] rr_ExpenseExampleByYearCaption

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based upon these assumptions your costs would be:

Strategy [Heading] rr_StrategyHeading

Principal Investment Strategies of the Fund:
Strategy Narrative [Text Block] rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock

The Fund’s investment adviser, Horizon Investments, LLC (“Horizon”), seeks to achieve the Fund’s investment objective by allocating assets across various sectors of the global securities markets. Horizon executes this strategy by investing in exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) listed on U.S. exchanges and other income producing securities. The Fund will invest in fixed income ETFs and other income oriented ETFs. The adviser defines “income oriented ETFs” as those that invest in (1) equity securities, (2) fixed-income securities, (3) alternative/specialty securities or (4) cash equivalents. In addition, the Fund may also invest in sovereign debt (including U.S. treasuries),fixed and floating rate securities of publicly traded companies, convertible bonds, preferred stocks, master limited partnerships (“MLPs”), mortgage-backed securities(“MBS”) and real estate investment trusts (“REITs”). The Fund will invest primarily in U.S. Dollar denominated securities, but may also invest a portion of its assets in non-U.S. Dollar denominated securities. The adviser will not adhere to any specific allocation of the Fund’s assets as between ETFs and other income producing securities, and other investments in the Fund’s portfolio. The adviser will invest the Fund’s portfolio without restriction as to capitalization.

 

Horizon selects portfolio investments without restriction as to the issuer country, capitalization, currency, maturity or credit quality. Additionally, Horizon may select inverse ETFs to hedge against market declines or generate returns from falling asset prices. Inverse ETFs are designed to produce results opposite to market trends.

 

Horizon selects asset classes using a tactical approach that allocates the Fund’s portfolio between asset classes that Horizon believes will generate the greatest amount of income, relative to a given amount of risk. Tactical investing strategies seek to maximize returns by adjusting portfolio asset-allocations among various asset classes based upon near-term forecasts. Horizon assesses expected income, relative to risk, using a multi-disciplined approach consisting of economic, quantitative and fundamental analysis. A representative security is selected for inclusion in the portfolio after it is reviewed for sufficient trading liquidity and fit within overall portfolio diversification needs. Depending on market conditions, the Fund may have a high turnover rate.
Risk [Heading] rr_RiskHeading

Principal Risks of the Fund:
Risk Narrative [Text Block] rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock

Many factors affect the Fund’s performance. The Fund’s share price changes daily based on changes in market conditions in response to economic, political and financial developments. The direction and extent of those price changes will be affected by the financial condition, industry and economic sector, and geographic location of the securities held by ETFs in which the Fund invests. The Fund is not federally insured or guaranteed by any government agency. YOU MAY LOSE MONEY BY INVESTING IN THE FUND.

 

Credit Risk: Issuers of fixed-income securities may default on interest and principal payments due to a Fund. Generally, securities with lower debt ratings have speculative characteristics and have greater risk the issuer will default on its obligation. Fixed-income securities rated in the fourth classification by Moody’s (Baa) and S&P (BBB) (sometimes referred to as “junk bonds”) have speculative characteristics and changes in economic conditions or other circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of those issuers to make principal or interest payments, as compared to issuers of more highly rated securities. These securities can also be thinly traded or have restrictions on resale, making them difficult to sell at an acceptable price.

 

ETF Risk: You will indirectly pay fees and expenses charged by the ETFs in addition to the Fund’s direct fees and expenses. As a result, the cost of investing in the Fund will be higher than the cost of investing directly in ETF shares and may be higher than other mutual funds that invest directly in stocks and bonds. Each ETF is subject to specific risks, depending on the nature of the fund. These risks could include sector risk (increased risk from a focus on one or more sectors of the market), as well as risks associated with fixed income securities, foreign currencies and commodities.

 

Fixed Income Risk: When the Fund invests in fixed income securities, derivatives on fixed income securities or Underlying Funds that invest in fixed income securities, the value of your investment in the Fund will fluctuate with changes in interest rates. Typically, a rise in interest rates causes a decline in the value of the fixed income securities owned by the Fund. Issuers of floating rate debt are exposed to higher interest payments in a rising rate environment. Issuers may default on interest and principal payments. Generally, securities with lower debt ratings (“junk bonds”) have greater credit risk.

 

Foreign Currency Risk: Currency trading risks include market risk, credit risk and country risk. Market risk results from adverse changes in exchange rates in the currencies the Fund is long or short. Credit risk results because a currency-trade counterparty may default. Country risk arises because a government may interfere with transactions in its currency.

 

Issuer Specific Risk: The value of a specific security can be more volatile than the market as a whole and can perform differently from the value of the market as a whole.

 

Inverse Risk: The Fund engages in hedging or investment activities by investing in inverse ETFs. Inverse ETFs may employ leverage, which magnifies the changes in the underlying index upon which they are based. Any strategy that includes inverse securities could cause the Fund to suffer significant losses.

 

Limited History of Operations: The Fund has a limited history of operations for investors to evaluate.

 

Management Risk: The ability of the Fund to meet its investment objective is directly related to the allocation of the Fund’s assets. Horizon may allocate the Fund’s investments so as to under-emphasize or over-emphasize investments under the wrong market conditions, in which case the Fund’s value may be adversely affected.

 

Market Risk: Investments in securities in general are subject to market risks that may cause their prices to fluctuate over time. The Fund’s investments may decline in value due to factors affecting securities markets generally, or particular countries, segments, economic sectors, industries or companies within those markets. The value of a security may decline due to general economic and market conditions that are not specifically related to a particular issuer.

 

MBS Risk: MBS are subject to credit risk because underlying loan borrowers may default. Additionally, these securities are subject to prepayment risk because the underlying loans held by the issuers may be paid off prior to maturity at faster or slower rates than expected.

 

MLP Risk: Investments in MLPs involve risks different from those of investing in common stock including risks related to limited control and limited rights to vote on matters affecting the MLP, risks related to potential conflicts of interest between the MLP and the MLP’s general partner, cash flow risks, dilution risks and risks related to the general partner’s limited call right. MLPs, typically, do not pay U.S. federal income tax at the partnership level. Instead, each partner is allocated a share of the partnership’s income, gains, losses, deductions and expenses. A change in current tax law or in the underlying business mix of a given MLP could result in an MLP being treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, which would result in such MLP being required to pay U.S. federal income tax on its taxable income.

 

Real Estate Risk: Real estate values rise and fall in response to a variety of factors, including local, regional and national economic conditions, interest rates and tax considerations. REIT performance depends on the types and locations of the rental properties it owns and on how well it manages those properties.

 

Sovereign Debt Risk: Sovereign government debt issuers, including the United States, may be unable or unwilling to make interest and principal payments because of factors such as tax revenue shortfalls or the inability to refinance maturing debt in local or global capital markets.

 

Turnover Risk: Higher portfolio turnover will result in higher transactional and brokerage costs.
Risk Lose Money [Text] rr_RiskLoseMoney

YOU MAY LOSE MONEY BY INVESTING IN THE FUND
Bar Chart and Performance Table [Heading] rr_BarChartAndPerformanceTableHeading

Performance:
Performance Narrative [Text Block] rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock

Because the Fund has less than a full calendar year of investment operations, no performance information is presented for the Fund at this time. In the future, performance information will be presented in this section of this Prospectus. Also, shareholder reports containing financial and performance information will be mailed to shareholders semi-annually. Updated performance information will be available at no cost by calling 1-855-754-7932.
Performance One Year or Less [Text] rr_PerformanceOneYearOrLess

Because the Fund has less than a full calendar year of investment operations, no performance information is presented for the Fund at this time.
Performance Availability Phone [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityPhone 1-855-754-7932
HORIZON ACTIVE INCOME FUND | CLASS N SHARES
  
Prospectus [Line Items] rr_ProspectusLineItems  
Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol AIMNX
Management Fees (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.77%
Component1 Other Expenses rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.25%
Component2 Other Expenses rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.30%
Other Expenses (as a percentage of Assets): rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.55% [1]
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.25% [2]
Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.57%
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.08%) [3]
Net Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.49%
Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 152
Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 488
HORIZON ACTIVE INCOME FUND | CLASS I SHARES
  
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Trading Symbol dei_TradingSymbol AIRIX
Management Fees (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.77%
Component1 Other Expenses rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets none
Component2 Other Expenses rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.30%
Other Expenses (as a percentage of Assets): rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.30% [1]
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.25% [2]
Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.32%
Fee Waiver or Reimbursement rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.08%) [3]
Net Expenses (as a percentage of Assets) rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.24%
Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 126
Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 $ 410
[1] Other expenses are estimated for the current fiscal year.
[2] This number represents the combined total fees and operating expenses of the underlying funds owned by the Fund and is not a direct expense incurred by the Fund or deducted from Fund assets. Since this number does not represent a direct operating expense of the Fund, the operating expenses set forth in the Fund's financial highlights do not include this figure.
[3] The fees shown above take into account an advisory fee waiver agreement to limit total operating expenses at least through March 31, 2015, so that Class I Share and Class N Share direct expenses (not including expenses relating to dividends on short sales, interest expense, indirect fees and expenses of underlying funds and extraordinary or non-recurring expenses) do not exceed 0.99% and 1.24% of average daily net assets of the Fund's Class I and Class N shares, respectively. These fee waivers and expense reimbursements are subject to possible recoupment from the Fund in future years on a rolling three-year basis (within the three years after the fees have been waived or reimbursed) if such recoupment can be achieved within the foregoing expense limit. Only the Fund's Board of Trustees may elect to terminate the advisory fee waiver agreement.