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title: "How to use the Secure Dashboard Administrations Settings in Mercury Network®"
slug: "overview-of-the-secure-dashboard-for-mercury"
tags: ["Mercury Network - Secure", "Mercury Network"]
updated: 2026-10-13T17:00:41Z
published: 2026-10-13T17:00:41Z
canonical: "docs.cotality.com/overview-of-the-secure-dashboard-for-mercury"
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# How to use the Secure Dashboard Administrations Settings in Mercury Network®

## Overview

The **Administration** section of the Mercury Network® Secure Dashboard is the central location for configuring and managing **DataCourier, Orders, Fee Panel, Clients, Users, Preferences, Reports, Account,** and **Investigate**. Some configuration options apply only to legacy appraisal forms and may not currently support UAD 3.6.

Use these administration settings to align appraisal ordering, vendor management, client access, user permissions, reporting, payments, and collateral risk workflows with your organization’s business requirements.

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## How to use the Secure Dashboard configuration tabs

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Select a configuration tab below to learn more about its settings and available tools.

| Configuration Tabs | Descriptions |
| --- | --- |
| [**DataCourier**](/ext/docs/working-with-datacourier-appraisals-1#overview) | **DataCourier** enables you to manage appraisal reports that were not ordered or delivered directly through Mercury Network®. Whether you receive an external appraisal via **DataCourier** delivery or email, you can process the report within Mercury Network®. From this centralized portal, you can view the PDF, submit the appraisal to UCDP, and access the Submission Summary Report alongside the rest of your appraisals. |
| [**Orders**](/ext/docs/order-uad-mercury-secure#overview) | The **Orders** view is where you can order appraisals, **AVMs**, **RealCondition Reports** and more. To view the details of an order, simply double‑click it in the list, or single click it to select the order and click **View** in the toolbar at the top. |
| [**Fee Panel**](/ext/docs/fee-panel-options-mercury-network#overview) | Your **Mercury Network®** **Fee Panel** is your organization’s list of preferred appraisers, and you can build it in several ways, including hand‑picking **AMCs**, appraisal firms, appraisers, agents, and inspectors you want to include, selecting from a list of qualified **Mercury Network®** appraisers based on criteria you define, or importing a list of preferred appraisers from a CSV file created in Excel or a similar program, and vendors who are part of a fee panel also have the option to auto‑accept all orders that come from that panel. |
| [**Clients**](/ext/docs/update-client-profiles-mercury-secure#overview) | In **Clients**, you can carefully control settings for your clients who order appraisals via your client portal. This section lets you customize settings for each client, including acceptable payment methods, **Report Groups**, **Order Groups**, and **Fee Tables**, to name a few. These advanced settings interact with your client portal to let you automate the ordering and routing for each specific client. |
| [**Users**](/ext/docs/create-accounts#overview) | **Mercury Network®** permits you to create as many loan originator user accounts as you need for your organization. In addition to controlling and securing access to your **Mercury Network®** account, these loan originator user accounts also speed up the appraisal ordering process by using information from the loan originator's profile to fill out the order and allow you to control the items your users can access. |
| [**Preferences**](/ext/docs/default-vendors-vendor-selection-settings#overview) | In **Preferences** you can apply strict control over how **Mercury Network®** recommends appraisers, over what forms are required in different report types, how you want to be notified of changes to your order, and more. |
| [**Reports**](/ext/docs/reporting#overview) | With **Mercury Network®**, you can quickly run reports about your orders' status, your fee panel, and completed reports, then view them in **Mercury Network®**, or export them as data that can be used to fine-tune your organization's appraisal management workflow. |
| [**Account**](/ext/docs/payment-summary-1#overview) | The **Account** view allows you to view your account information, manage your **Password Security** and **Payment Methods**, and review your **Payment History** for your orders. |
| **Investigate** | *[**Coming soon**]* *Collateral Investigate is a unified collateral risk and review solution that integrates seamlessly with a lender’s existing technology stack. It's engineered to help clients navigate the GSE-led Valuation Modernization mandate by providing standardized, automated data validation and a single source of truth for all property valuation platforms. It moves them beyond simply managing appraisals to proactively managing collateral risk across the entire organization, delivering a true competitive advantage in efficiency and data accuracy.* |

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## Outcome

After you configure the applicable administration settings, Mercury Network® supports your organization’s appraisal ordering, vendor management, client access, user permissions, reporting, payment, and collateral risk workflows. These settings help streamline processes, improve operational efficiency, and maintain consistency across Secure Dashboard activities.