Merchant Center is the back end tool that LivingSocial merchants use to track the success of their promotions, redeem vouchers from customers, and track their payments.
My first project at LivingSocial was as the lead designer for our merchant tools and I worked very closely with a few different product managers and engineers. Working with this team allowed me to really improve my skills in a fast iterative environment.
LivingSocial is great at driving customers in the door of our merchants. However it can often be a challenge to show our true value, based on amount spent over voucher or even revenue driven from repeat visits without that information being tracked by our merchants. Therefore our biggest task for merchant center is not only demonstrating the value of putting in that extra work but also making those tasks as easy as possible to complete.