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Intercom

Overview

What is Intercom?

Intercom creates modern Customer Service software that aims to redefine how businesses support their customers. The platform connects businesses directly to customers using powerful messaging and automation. According to the vendor, Intercom enables teams to scale support without investing more…

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Recent Reviews

Love Intercom!

10 out of 10
April 06, 2024
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We use it to handle all incoming correspondence from customers, including some social media integrations, and we also use it to handle all …
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High Cost, Low Value

3 out of 10
April 01, 2024
Incentivized
we use it on the home page and in the service section. <br>the product is pretty good, but the customer service and post sale support is …
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Intercom review

10 out of 10
March 29, 2024
Incentivized
We use Intercom as our go to help desk, communication with our customers across two different apps and a website. I can't imagine our …
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Good Product

9 out of 10
March 26, 2024
Incentivized
I use Intercom to receive messages from customers and "chat" with them. The customer came to us asking technical and product questions …
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Works good!

8 out of 10
March 08, 2024
Incentivized
I work at Customer Success and use Intercom as a tool to communicate with my clients. I use quite a few features. Through snoozing, I plan …
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Intercom

7 out of 10
February 29, 2024
Incentivized
I use Intercom in order to respond to customers' questions and issues involved in interacting with our app, and to resolve billing and …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Email support (105)
    8.8
    88%
  • Ticket creation and submission (104)
    8.3
    83%
  • Ticket response (109)
    7.8
    78%
  • External knowledge base (114)
    7.4
    74%

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Pricing

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Essential

$39

Cloud
per month per seat

Advanced

$99

Cloud
per month per seat

Expert

$139

Cloud
per month per seat

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.intercom.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Incident and problem management

Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes

8.1
Avg 7.9

Self Help Community

Features that allow customers to self-service for support issues.

7.3
Avg 7.7

Multi-Channel Help

Features related to providing customer service and support via different communication channels. Communications are organized by ticket/customer/channel for the convenience of agents.

8.2
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Intercom?

Intercom is a Customer Service solution that aims to provide a seamless customer experience across automation and human support, with the goal of delivering increased customer satisfaction while reducing costs. Intercom aims to ensure customer conversations are successfully resolved without needing human support, freeing up the team to work on higher value customer conversations.

According to the vendor, customer service teams from more than 25,000 global organizations, including Atlassian, Amazon and Lyft Business, use Intercom to deliver more efficient and personal customer experiences at scale. Intercom is used to send over 500 million messages per month and enables interactions with over 600 million monthly active end users. Founded in 2011 and backed by leading venture capitalists, including Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners and Social Capital, Intercom states their mission is to make internet business personal.

Intercom Features

  • Supported: Operational efficiency: Uses AI, Bots and Rules to reduce support costs by freeing up support teams from repetitive questions and tasks.
  • Supported: Productivity: Helps to ensure service teams only work on high value questions in a collaborative Inbox.
  • Supported: Solves known customer issues by helping them before they get in touch: Sends proactive messages to get ahead of known issues and reduce inbound support volume.
  • Supported: Customer engagement by providing direction: Shows customers what to do next without waiting for them to contact support and ask.
  • Supported: Customer satisfaction through conversational support: Answers questions immediately in the channel they arise, or the channel that customers prefer.
  • Supported: Cohesive customer service: Supports working together in one platform.

Intercom Screenshots

Screenshot of Support Bots: Intercom brings upleveled support automation that scales support teams by resolving 33% of common questions.Screenshot of Shared Inbox: From quick to complex questions, the Intercom Inbox workflows helps resolve issues in real time and improve team efficiency—without sacrificing CSAT.Screenshot of Product Tours: Connect the dots from sign-up to success with Intercom' interactive product tours.Screenshot of Campaign Builder: Series, Intercom's visual campaign builder, lets users send cohesive messages across channels—inside the app and out.Screenshot of Intercom Surveys: In-context customer surveys, Intercom Surveys connects users to valuable customer insights—and then helps to turn those insights into action, automatically.Screenshot of The Intercom MessengerScreenshot of Advanced Ticketing

Intercom Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesArabic, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, German (Formal), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latviski, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Англи хэл (Mongolian).

Frequently Asked Questions

Intercom creates modern Customer Service software that aims to redefine how businesses support their customers. The platform connects businesses directly to customers using powerful messaging and automation. According to the vendor, Intercom enables teams to scale support without investing more resources - leading to happier customers and more efficient support teams.

Zendesk Suite, Freshdesk, and HubSpot Service Hub are common alternatives for Intercom.

Reviewers rate Email support highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Intercom are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom for three primary cases. The first use as as a help center, developing a number of articles explaining how to best use our product. To complement these articles, we create tours and tool tips to help users out during their use of the product. Secondly, we use Intercom to track users and send them emails about changes, outages, and feature updates. Lastly we use Intercom to live chat with users when they have questions or encounter any problems.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom to chat with our customers and assist in trouble shooting products, explaining in detail about products and create quotes. This is our main instrument for communication and it is used daily. We use the side conversations email, snooze and creates cases functions.
April 10, 2024

Love Intercom!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom for reactive and proactive support. We need to be able to consistently and effectively communicate with our customers and make it simple and easy for them to reach out to us. We were using a different product that made it hard to filter our proactive messages effectively and didn't have as much functionality and our customers weren't having a great experience. We switched to Intercom to better create multiple campaigns, like product updates and onboarding paths.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Fastpaced, continously developing, intelligent and UX friendly. Intercom cements itself as one of the great ones out there when it comes to customer support and customer engagement. It has become one of the most important pillars in our business, not only for providing customer support, but also to gather analytics from customer usage. There's then also the endless integration opportunities, where the integration towards crm is the most outstanding one. Highly recommend Intercom for your business.
April 06, 2024

Love Intercom!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to handle all incoming correspondence from customers, including some social media integrations, and we also use it to handle all published articles for our help center. This is especially helpful as customers have access to help themselves before needing further assistance from us, which is a win win for everyone.
April 01, 2024

High Cost, Low Value

Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we use it on the home page and in the service section. <br>the product is pretty good, but the customer service and post sale support is terrible. the Cust Success Rep refuses to give his contact info and you always have to escalate the issue to his manager for a response. time will tell if they will remain with us past contract renewal, but at the moment i would vote against. PS&gt; their integrations are very limited... check carefully if need any APIs.
March 29, 2024

Intercom review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom as our go to help desk, communication with our customers across two different apps and a website. I can't imagine our product without Intercom anymore. It solves a major challenge for us - communicating with our customers efficiently. We love everything about it - from the routing conversations feature, to letting us update our customers about the current status in the product, etc.
March 26, 2024

Good Product

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Intercom to receive messages from customers and "chat" with them. The customer came to us asking technical and product questions that we address through internal investigation, like for example issues they have, new features, etc.
Dineshan Sithamparanathan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We mainly use Intercome to support and engage customers across the web and mobile. Intercom's conversational interface and workflows make communicating with customers easy and natural. The breadth of integrations with complementary tools has extended Intercom’s capabilities for us. Being able to incorporate solutions like Slack is the core of our stack makes Intercom more than a standalone application.
March 08, 2024

Works good!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I work at Customer Success and use Intercom as a tool to communicate with my clients. I use quite a few features. Through snoozing, I plan further contact with each customer. As an organization, we use FIN. I also use filtering. Can't forget about macro too.
Eileen Romito | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using Intercom for 3 years to support the users of our SaaS platform and it's integral to our day to day ability to keep our customers happy. We absolutely love how easily it integrates into our application directly, so to the user their experience is seamless, and on our end we have all of the information we need about that contact right at our fingertips during the course of the interaction. In the end, this increases product adoption among the real estate agents that work under our real estate brokerage customers.
Branden Abushanab | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Intercom has significantly helps our organization scale our CS (customer success) operations. We have streamlined all of our internal operations using the new tool and are grateful to the Intercom's team in supporting our team's growth. The tool is incredibly easy to learn and train on.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom for its knowledgebase and support functionality. It addresses our need for a centralized system with access for both our support people and our partners support people as we scale.
I love the automations, the AI functionality and ease of building our knowledge base. It's also been easy to set up and to manage permissions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom for all customer communications and marketing emails. We strongly leverage the in-app communication and the help article feature. At this time, we do not use the chatbot feature, but we would be interested in it in the future. We used to use the rules feature, and I am trying to update these so we can use the platform more efficiently. I really enjoy Intercom as its interface is very easy to use and comfortable to learn. The addition of AI tools also helps make communication with customers on all scales (short & quick, to long and drawn-out) very easy to manage and complete. I don't have too much feedback in terms of recommendations, as we currently do not use enough of the features to critique them.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
There are three issues we wanted to solve using intercom:1. Multilingual support page/support2. Collection and analysis of user behavior logs3. Securing a means of communication with users who do not respond via email. Currently, there are still some parts that have not been completely resolved for 2, but most of 1 and 3 have been achieved.
February 19, 2024

Hard to top!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Intercom is used to host our help center and our live chat functionality. The tool allows us to easily host guides in multiple languages and supports our 2500 global clients. Without Intercom, we'd really struggle to viably return support messages to this volume of clients.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Setting up Customer Service Management, Chat and Email ticketing support, creating internal and external knowledge base and integrating different third-party software to connect data from another software and do the transaction through Intercom. The only issue that I can think of, whenever we need support, the response from your customer service does not respond right away.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
WE USE INTERCOM TO SOLVE OUR CLIENT'S DOUBTS USING OUR GOLF MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE -SAAS- THAT IS QUITE COMPLEX TO CONFIGURE. SO, WE RECEIVE OUR CLIENTS' DOUBTS AND PROBLEMS, AND WE TRY TO SOLVE THEM WITH THE LEAST HUMAN INTERACTION POSSIBLE.
February 12, 2024

Intercom review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Intercom to handle conversations related to app subscription issues. Refunds, malfunctions, suggestions, problems with log in. I need to help customers to solve their issues so they can use the app the best way possible. We also use Intercom to understand who are the non renewal customers and communicate with them.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our organization, we use Intercom to deal with customer support tasks. We also use the proactive message combined with Workflow and are fans of the tag to track broader issues, customer feedback, and feature requests. We only use have conversations and not tickets because we are a small company and that suits us the best. Our helpcenter is also connected to Intercom and is a great resource of information.
February 07, 2024

A Masterpiece.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As client support, we do what our clients need to do, like their tasks, schedules, and adjustments on their accounts. We gave them instructions, suggestions, and recommendations through the intercom so we could easily communicate with them by email. Their accounts and members are the product addresses that we need to do.
February 06, 2024

Intercom experience

Alejandra Campero | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
To registrate and communicate with clients and also between the people from inside the company. We also use the "note" feature a lot, and that way we can comment on external emails and be on the same page


It is very useful also for bulk emails
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