Users are required to indemnify Mercury and its International Wire Services Providers for costs and expenses incurred in attempting to cancel or amend accepted wire instructions or payment orders at the user's request. The broader indemnification provision is referenced in Section 10 of the agreement.
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This provision establishes a user indemnification obligation specifically in the context of wire instruction cancellation or amendment requests, which may result in financial charges to the user even in cases where the cancellation or amendment attempt is unsuccessful.
Interpretive note: Section 10 containing the broader indemnification framework was not fully included in the available document text; the complete scope of user indemnification obligations cannot be assessed from the available excerpt alone.
Mercury's updated terms establish detailed rules for how recurring autopay works on invoices. Under the revised language, payers authorize recurring ACH debits through a separate addendum, Mercury will not retry failed payments (except once if caused by a Mercury system issue), and autopay authorization will automatically cancel after two consecutive failures in a series. You can prevent autopay cancellation by ensuring payers have sufficient funds, re-enrolling the payer, or requesting manual payment if the series fails twice.
View change record →The updated terms establish that when customers pay invoices you issue through Mercury Invoicing via ACH debit, Mercury will apply a hold period before crediting the funds to your account. The hold period is determined by Mercury in its sole discretion based on risk factors related to the transaction, payer, and payment history, and may range from 1 to 4 business days from the date the ACH debit is initiated. Mercury will display an estimated funds availability date for each incoming invoice payment in your Invoicing dashboard.
View change record →Scope narrowed from broad indemnification for violations and service use to specific indemnification limited to wire instruction cancellation/amendment costs and extended to include third-party wire services providers.
View full change record →Under this clause, users who request cancellation or amendment of an accepted wire instruction or payment order are responsible for indemnifying Mercury and its providers for any associated costs, regardless of whether the cancellation or amendment is successfully executed.
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"You will indemnify us and the applicable International Wire Services Provider for any costs or expenses incurred in connection with acting or attempting to act on your request to cancel or amend a Wire Instruction we have accepted or a Payment Order the International Wire Services Provider has received.Excerpt from Mercury's Terms of Service
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Indemnification provisions in commercial payment service agreements are governed primarily by contract law and may be assessed against Article 4A of the California Uniform Commercial Code for commercial wire transfers.
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This provision establishes a user indemnification obligation specifically in the context of wire instruction cancellation or amendment requests, which may result in financial charges to the user even in cases where the cancellation or amendment attempt is unsuccessful.
Under this clause, users who request cancellation or amendment of an accepted wire instruction or payment order are responsible for indemnifying Mercury and its providers for any associated costs, regardless of whether the cancellation or amendment is successfully executed.
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