Yes, but you will need to ensure that your legal counsel is involved in structuring your Agreements. Mercenta is designed with enforceability in mind : (1), Mercenta ensures that no Agreement can be amended without a Proposal being approved by both counterparties. (2), the approval workflow ensures that all proposals are cryptographically signed by both the buying and supplying organisations before amending the Agreement. (3), Mercenta provides a legal text writer so that legal text can be attached to smart-agreement attributes (for example, CostItem formulae, resource values, etc) so that they can be supported by the appropriate legal language. (4) Lawyers should be involved in the Proposal authoring stage by simply adding legal counsel as a "Contributor". (5) make sure that your legal counsel is added to the approval workflow so they can review and approve Proposals before being sent to the counterparty for approval. In many many ways, Mercenta improves legal coverage (as in business under contract), integrity and enforceability over traditional paper-based contracts.

No. Mercenta is currently in development but the core modules are ready for preview. We have completed the functionality for the Organisation (which includes tenant management, users and adminstrators and companies, products and locations and security configuration) and Proposal authoring modules which allows you to test the Resources, CostStructure, and ProductCosting modules. If you would like to test our service on your organisation's data then we welcome you to register so that we can create a preview account for you.

Mercenta is designed for advanced sourcing best practices which implement full cost-breakdown costing and indexing of pricing to commodity prices (also called material price formula costing). We have developed an innovative coststructure builder which allows Organisations to develop almost any type of cost structure. Our clients have developed CostStructures of many different types of commodities including: Injection/Extrusion Molded parts, PCBA Fabrication, Sheet Metal Fabrication, Rubber molding, Wire harness, electro-mechanical, machined/cast components and many different types of indirect/Services.

Yes. The Enterprise edition of Mercenta allows subscribers to white-label the portal and deploy Mercenta backend services on your organisation's own cloud or on-premise datacenter. In this way, your Organisation can be fully responsible for your own processing, security and data. Mercenta is developed using a scalable micros-service architecture and runs on any Linux or Windows distribution capable of supporting Docker/Kubernetes. This means that Mercenta is modular so you can also use your own Identity Provider, database, web portal and backend services to suit your organisation's security and compliance requirements. We recommend however that you initially use our infrastructure while you are evaluating Mercenta and then insource once you have decided to deploy Mercenta more widely in your organisation.

Yes. We approach security from total management perspective which covers architecture, development and operations. Architectually, we do not store passwords, keys and data on our own systems unless you select Mercenta to handle these items for you. If Mercenta manages these for you then we fully isolate your organisation's identity provider, keys and data from other tenants. From a developemnt perspective we always use industry standard best practices, avoid open source libraries, and piggy-back on major frameworks such as Microsoft .net, OIDC, Linux/Docker, TLS, etc. Operationally, we have adopted industry's best dev-ops practices and constantly review our code and deployment. We run Mercenta on US cloud providers on secure and continuously patched Linux distribution located behind multiple security layers. Data is encrypted at rest and we fully implement TLS (formally SSL) for communication between the client and backend services. If you have any concerns then you may also run Mercenta portal, backend services and databases on your Company's own infrastructure via our Enterprise edition.

You can access Mercenta via your web browser, or a mobile or desktop application. Web users, will access Mercenta via your Organisation's own portal which is prefixed by your own unique subdomain. For example, if your Organisation name is "Acme Corp." and you select "acme" as your subdomain, then your users would access Mercenta via https://acme.mercenta.com. Mobile and Desktop users will download the app from their portal. Note that Organisation administrators use the Admin portal located at https://admin.mercenta.com

Yes. During the preview period we're offering no-cost subscriptions until further notice. Due to the nature of this beta-release, please understand that you are using our preview releases at your own risk and should not deploy any smart agreements in a live environment.