Fourteen people from key account management and support, purchasing and planning, IT and product, sales and the executive team spoke with the DeepListen agent on 11 August 2026, half an hour on average. Every conversation fed into this report.
In standard operation Mercura is considered stable. Friction appears wherever a programme goes beyond the standard, and that is the case with almost every customer. Four findings run through every area.
Expected features are missing. The gaps get closed with workarounds, the data maintained in two systems side by side. The inconsistencies only surface at the customer.
The API is poorly documented. What a function does is worked out by trial or asked of the vendor, with waits of several working days.
The interface is not enough to run on. Recurring actions are done by hand through the API. Few people can, it takes time, and it produces errors.
Customers get turned away. At least three programme requests with attractive volume had to be declined for want of features. Until now that appeared in no report.
The extra effort appears in no ticket and no cost account. It lives in the heads of the people doing it. Cases, times and quotes in chapters 6 and 7.