Mercury 2026.1 Itemised Release Notes

You are now able to use ‘Quick Create’ to add a Fee from any relevant form in Mercury. 
 
This form mimics behaviour and layout from the Fee's Main Form, whereby various sections and fields will become visible based on values selected from other fields.  

The fields available are: 

If Cost; 

Please note, 'Address' details are not currently included however we will be working on this in a future iteration. 

Throughout Mercury 

There is a brand-new Address Picker Control on the Vacancy Record which means you are now able to search for a relevant address instead of having to scroll to find it.  

Mercury Vacancy Form In Mercury 2026.1 this is available on the Vacancy form, however in Mercury 2026.2 this will be rolled out to all other areas in Mercury - (Placement, Fee, Contact, Placement Validation). 
 

Total Days on a Timesheet 

There is a new field on a Timesheet showing a summation of the Day Units of all its related timesheet lines. This will allow you to easily view the Days worked without having to open the full Timesheet, making it faster to get the information that you need, as well as enable you to use this information in reports. 
 
These are calculated only on submission of a timesheet via the candidate portal or when a recruiter manually edits a line and saves a submitted timesheet. 

Timesheet form > Forecast/Actuals tab. 

This will enable you to easily see how many Days were worked during that period without having to open the full Timesheet. The information will also be available for you to use in reports.  

Total Hours on a Timesheet 

There is a new field on a Timesheet showing a summation of the Hours Units of all its related timesheet lines.  This will allow you to easily view the Hours worked without having to open the full Timesheet, making it faster to get the information that you need, as well as enable you to use this information in reports. 
 
These are calculated only on submission of a timesheet via the candidate portal or when a recruiter manually edits a line and saves a submitted timesheet. 

Timesheet form > Forecast/Actuals tab. 

This will enable you to easily see how many Days were worked during that period without having to open the full Timesheet. The information will also be available for you to use in reports.  

A couple of things have changed on the Timesheet Template form, these are: 

Timeline has been made invisible to end users 

A new section called "DEFAULTS" has been added, along with the following new fields: 

Please note: You are able to type in a time outside of the 15-minute interval, however, the starting 0 will NOT be populated when looking at the time 

This work has been completed in Core in preparation for showing it in the Candidate Portal but is not currently available in the Portal. That work will be undertaken as part of the Release Train. 

Config Area → Timesheet Templates 

So the Candidate doesn't have to populate that information and we can set it at a template level to apply to all Timesheets. This work is yet to be completed within the Portal. 

IDEA-01075 - Candidate Company > ID required for Timesheet integrations 

There is a new dedicated Candidate Company ID field that can be used as a unique identifier for different Timesheet integrations.  

Candidate Company form and all views. 

This is particularly useful for recruitment businesses where they have global offices as this helps to ensure the Candidate Company ID is not duplicated. 

Add Transactions Timesheet Selection 

You are now able to select an existing Timesheet and ‘Add Transactions’ which allows you to complete the Timesheet on behalf of the Candidate ensuring that it is linked to the relevant Timesheet.  

Timesheet on the Placement 

This will ensure that Timesheets are completed in a timely and efficient manner and will result in smoother workflows.  

Close Timesheet during Add Transactions 

To ensure that only one person is working to Add Transactions at a time you can use the  ‘Close Timesheet’ toggle which allows users to complete the Timesheet on behalf of the Candidate linked to the relevant Timesheet, safe in the knowledge that no-one else is working on the Timesheet. 

Timesheet on the Placement 

This will enable smoother workflows and ensure that Timesheet submissions are completed as quickly and as easily as possible.  

Type of Rate Type 

You are now able to a specify a Rate Type so that you can more accurately record information on time-based Timesheets 

You can select between "Standard", "Overtime" or "Meal / Break" in the Rate Type Record. 

This work has been completed in Core in preparation for showing it in the Candidate Portal but is not currently available in the Portal. That work will be undertaken as part of the Release Train 

Rate Type record – Sort Order 

This will allow for better recording of information in time-based Timesheets. 

Shortlist Updates to show on Candidate Grid on Vacancy 

When looking at Shortlists on the Mercury Vacancy Form it will now display the Shortlist Updates related to the associated Candidate for that Vacancy. This allows greater visibility of recent updates and ease of history for the Shortlisted Candidate(s) for any given Vacancy. 

Vacancy Record 

This will give you a clear view of where and when statuses have changed for Shortlists associated with a particular Vacancy.  

Display Location Field on New Mercury Vacancy Form 

The Location field is now visible on the Mercury Vacancy Form in the Information section, below Country.  

Vacancy – Information – below Country 

This brings the Vacancy Form functionality inline with the UCI form and means that the job location information can be added without the need to open the UCI form giving you a more consistent experience. 

Job Description Field Length 

The length limit for the Job Description field on work History has been increased from 5000 to 12500 characters.  

Job Description - Work History   

This makes it easier to view the information that you need easily, and saves you having to scroll to see it. 

Customer Voice on Contact Timeline 

Customers using the NPS Survey automation are now able to view Customer Voice Survey activities such as invites and responses from the Timeline on Contact records. You are able to pin/unpin and open these records directly from the Contact. 

Contact - Timeline 

This allows you to keep up to date with the latest feedback from your Clients and Candidates and easily see what has been sent and received. 

Customer Voice on Placement Timeline 

Customers using the NPS Survey automation are now able to view Customer Voice Survey activities such as invites and responses from the Timeline on a Placement records. You are able to pin/unpin and open these records directly from the Contact. 

Placement - Timeline 

This allows you to keep up to date with the latest feedback about Placements and easily see what has been sent and received. 

Info Timeline 

The Timeline on an Info Record is now sorted by Date Created. 

Info Record - Timeline 

This makes the experience of working with the Info Record Timeline consistent with how Timelines act in other areas of Mercury.  

Add Offboarding to Mercury Placement Form 

You can now view Offboarding progress under the Compliance tab on the Mercury Placement form. 

Mercury Placement form > Compliance tab. 

This provides a consistent user experience so all types of compliance can be viewed under a single tab. This has also been updated on the UCI form.  

Reduce Duplicate Placement ID's 

Users are now unable to extend a Placement that has already been extended on another open tab.  

Placement form (when users are working on multiple tabs of the same record) 

This will ensure that Placement ID’s are not duplicated and improve data quality.  

Integrations screen message for Admin users 

A message has been added to the screen that is accessed when Mercury users with the role of System Customizer or System Administrator select ‘Integrations’ on the Mercury site map.  

Mercury Sitemap - Integrations tab 

This gives users context as to the purpose of this menu option.  

Hide 'Shortlist Substatus' on Activity Purpose 

The ‘Shortlist Substatus’ field has been removed from the Activity Purpose form 

Activity Purpose – Shortlist Substatus 

This will make the Activity Purpose form more intuitive to use.  

Move Flags to 'Config' Area 

Management of the Flags entity has been moved to the Config Area of the Mercury Admin App. 

Config – Flags 

This makes it easier and quicker for Mercury Admin users to manage all configuration items from a single location in Mercury.  

Description on Work History 

The size of the text box in the Description area of ‘Work History’ has been increased to improve visibility of the information in that field.  

Work History - Description 

An issue was Identified where the Candidate was automatically populated in the Referred By filed when creating a Shortlist via the Candidate tab on a Contact. This has now been resolved.   

Agreement cascade fixes  

Previously adding compliance to an Agreement or Worker Type cascaded to all active Placements which were not Complete. This is now resolved and cascade relates to the status of the Placement.   

Hiring Manager on Clear of Client  

When clearing Client on a Vacancy, an issue was identified that Hiring Manager was still filtered to the Client Contacts for the removed Client. This has now been resolved.  

Additional line at top of email  

We have resolved an issue where extra spacing was appearing around the salutation when sending emails. This fix also applies when forwarding or replying to that email.  

Fix to workflow 'Create or update placement SharePoint location'  

We have updated the workflow Create or Update Placement SharePoint location to remove the update of the Client Name field.   

Email Editor - Live Preview broken  

There was in issue where the email live preview was not showing when trying to use Insert Template in the Email Editor. This has now been resolved.  

Placement Validation - Candidate Company  

Previously Candidate Company was showing on Temp Placements when it should not have shown. This has now been resolved.   

Agreement Reference Tooltip  

A spelling mistake was identified in the 'Reference' Tooltip for Agreement. This has now been corrected.  

Entities removed from Advanced Filter in Mercury Admin  

The below entities are no longer available for selection when using Advanced Filters of the Mercury Admin App:  

They are visible within the Mercury app. This resolves ID 105397 Dashboards & Views missing from Mercury Admin app  

Vacancy Source on Form twice  

There was a duplicate ‘Vacancy Source’ field on the Vacancy Form. This has been removed and is now only visible in the ‘Job Details’ section of the form.   

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