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This release gives MERS a facelift: a fresh new look with every button where you left it. You can now order from your suppliers inside MERS and track the delivery, get alerts on your phone and computer, see the service cost and margin of every sale, and move and count stock in the new Stock and Salon Supplies tabs. Orders & Suppliers is now step by step, plus fixes across bookings, sales, pay, End of Day and logins. Here’s everything, and how to start using it.

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November 14, 2026
★ The big one

MERS had a facelift

MERS looks new today, but nothing has moved. Every screen has the same tabs, buttons and numbers in the same places. It’s lighter, cleaner and easier on the eyes for a long day at the salon.

MERS had a facelift: the new look, ordering from suppliers, alerts, service cost and fixes

What changed

  • Frosted glass panels, with the first band of numbers on each page in dark so the key figures stand out.
  • On the Dashboard, only the top band is dark. The tiles below stay light and compact.
  • Sales Tracking stays light and simple, as before.
  • Payment and “Sale completed” open in the middle of the screen.
  • My Stuff shows your week at a glance and your next commission step. Expenses has a “Where it went” bar.
  • Dropdowns instead of rows of buttons for periods and filters, on every screen.
  • Dark mode: tap the moon button. On a phone, the bands are smaller so more fits on the screen.
Dashboard: the dark Today band on top, light tiles below.
Dashboard: the dark Today band on top, light tiles below.
My Stuff: this week and your next commission step.
My Stuff: this week and your next commission step.
Dark mode, switched on with the moon button.
Dark mode, switched on with the moon button.

The sign-in page and the kiosk look the same as before.

New

Orders & Suppliers, step by step

Inventory → Orders & Suppliers now follows your order from start to finish: Order → Track → Receive → Pay, plus Suppliers and Order history. Each step shows how many are waiting.

Orders & Suppliers: Order, Track, Receive and Pay, with counts.
Orders & Suppliers: Order, Track, Receive and Pay, with counts.
  • Track: every open order has a small truck that shows where it is.
  • Confirm what arrived: good, damaged and missing per line, expiry and batch, cost per ml or g and your margin, and the delivery fee. Mark the rest Still coming or Not coming.
  • Payment terms on each supplier fill the bill’s due date when you receive.
  • Pay: see what you owe each supplier, Pay all pending in one go, or split a bill into installments. A damaged claim shows on its bill.
  • Running low is one list with each item’s supplier, tagged Salon use or Retail.
  • A draft order can change branch and supplier. Order emails show the branch’s delivery address and say plainly if sending failed.
  • Suppliers you never used can be deleted.
Confirm what arrived: good, damaged, expiry and batch, and the delivery fee.
Confirm what arrived: good, damaged, expiry and batch, and the delivery fee.
New

Stock and Salon Supplies

Two new tabs in Inventory keep track of every product from the day it arrives to the day it’s used.

  • Transfers between branches: send stock or ask another branch for it. Batches move with their cost and expiry, and the receiving branch confirms what arrived good, damaged or missing.
  • Adjust and write off: pick the batch and the reason, and see the cost before you save. You can add a photo.
  • Stock count: count a shelf or the whole branch, print a count sheet, or count blind so the system numbers stay hidden until you post.
  • Movement history: every product in and out, with where it came from: an order, a transfer, a sale or a count. Filter it and export every row.
  • Stock rules: choose which batch is used first, the oldest received or the one expiring soonest.
  • Salon Supplies: track consumables like gloves and foils without touching your money, with a low-stock alert per branch. Equipment keeps its cost and life in years, and MERS reminds you a month before it’s worn out.
Inventory → Stock: transfers between branches.
Inventory → Stock: transfers between branches.
Salon Supplies: consumables with a low-stock alert per branch.
Salon Supplies: consumables with a low-stock alert per branch.
New

The new booking, now on for every salon

The booking changes from October 31 are now switched on for every salon. Open System Preferences → Booking to set them up.

  • Booking Setup, rebuilt one branch at a time, with a cleaner booking page for your clients.
  • Book by station: tell MERS your chairs, stations and beds, and it never books more clients than you have room for. You can show clients how many spots are left.
  • Adaptive booking: offer the earliest time first, keep a buffer between clients, and take small groups booking together.
New

Order from suppliers on MERS Supply

If your supplier is on MERS Supply, your order goes straight to them from MERS. You don’t need to email or message anyone.

  • Your prices: every item shows the price your supplier gave your salon. Items on sale show the sale price, with the usual price crossed out.
  • Products you don’t stock yet: browse your supplier’s list and add them to the order.
  • Track: the truck follows your supplier live, from Sent to Delivered. Orders your supplier makes for you are marked “Placed by” your supplier.
  • Supplier Messages: chat with your supplier, with the order right beside the chat.
A new order to a supplier on MERS Supply, with a sale price.
A new order to a supplier on MERS Supply, with a sale price.
Track: the truck follows your supplier live.
Track: the truck follows your supplier live.
New

Alerts on your phone and computer

MERS can now tell you when something needs you, even when it’s closed. Turn it on in System Preferences → Alerts, then tap Send a test. Your team turns it on for themselves in My Stuff.

  • Bookings: new, moved or cancelled.
  • Orders: accepted, changed, on the way, or delivered by your supplier.
  • Money: a sale voided or edited, an expense waiting for approval, a branch closing its day.
  • Stock: items running low or out of stock.
  • Your team: leave filed, schedule changes, and payslips ready.
System Preferences → Alerts: your devices, Send a test, and who gets what.
System Preferences → Alerts: your devices, Send a test, and who gets what.

Each alert goes only to the people whose access covers it, and it’s also saved in the bell. Pay amounts and client phone numbers never show on a lock screen. On a phone, MERS first helps you add it to your home screen. Some emails are now sent as alerts instead; the Emails tab marks those “Now an alert”.

New

Service cost on every sale

Open any sale in Transactions to see its Service cost: the products used, the products sold, each person’s commission, the total cost and your margin %. A product with no cost set is marked, so it isn’t counted as ₱0.

Transaction Summary: Service cost and margin.
Transaction Summary: Service cost and margin.

Only people with Payroll · Commission access see it, and it never appears on the client’s summary. The Commission section now follows the same pay privacy: no one sees the pay of someone above them.

Polish

Clean up what you never used

Services, people, discounts, inventory, packages and suppliers that were never used now have a Delete button. Anything with history is turned off instead, so your reports stay complete.

Polish

Bookings and down payments

  • Cancelling a booking with a paid down payment asks: Refund the deposit or Keep it. A kept down payment counts as income.
  • Moving a booking that’s waiting for its down payment keeps it waiting, and the down payment moves with it.
  • Anyone who can edit the calendar can add a booking by hand.
Polish

Sales and Transactions

  • Pressing Hold sale twice makes one held sale, not two.
  • Editing a sale keeps its promo code, and a back job keeps its Free or Discounted charge.
  • When a Senior or PWD discount and a promo give the same price, MERS uses the Senior or PWD discount.
  • The Transactions totals count every sale in the dates you pick, even on busy months.
  • Transactions and End of Day show Manila time on any device.
Polish

People & Pay

  • Pay screens follow your Access settings for each person, not their job title.
  • Someone who left gets no SSS, PhilHealth or Pag-IBIG after their last day, and their tax is worked out on what they were actually paid.
  • Leave never goes below 0. Days past the balance are saved as unpaid leave, with a warning. Leave to cash is capped at the days left.
  • Someone who forgot to clock out can still clock in; yesterday’s shift is flagged for a manager.
  • Kiosk-only staff count as ready for payroll.
  • Payroll reads every sale and clock-in of the period, even for big teams.
  • Package and set commission on “normal price” pays what the sale showed.
  • Commission sales, payslip balances, SSS year to date, the Everyone’s pay headers and the 13th month estimate all show correctly.
Polish

End of Day and logins

  • End of Day shows short, over or matches for every payment method, not just cash. The saved day, the email, the Excel file and the Dashboard all match.
  • End of Day won’t close if your sales didn’t load, so you never get a false ₱0 day.
  • Changing a staff email moves their sign-in to the new email, so they can sign in straight away.
  • Someone whose staff record is deleted or turned off is signed out on every device, and can’t switch back into that salon.
  • People who work at more than one salon no longer get stuck going round in circles when they sign in.
Fixes

Fixed this round

  • Process sale says “Official Receipt issued” again, with “OR number (from your BIR-accredited system)”.
  • Expenses show the day the money was spent as a plain date on every device, with no shift to the day before.
  • Approval pop-ups always show the current list of managers.
  • The tax estimate shows a branch manager only their own branches.
  • Inventory shows every peso amount with centavos.
  • Error messages are in plain words, never codes.
  • MERS opens faster: the menu, Sales Tracking and long Dashboard ranges load quicker.

That's the roundup.

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