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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
Incentivized
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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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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November 27, 2023

Pretty Satisfied

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mainly for customer support, and outbound messaging. It is easy to use, very user friendly and any new employee gets along in a very smooth way.
The filters to select the appropriate audience are great, and it seems, they are also easy to set up since our developers' team always pulls up the labels asked pretty quickly.
  • Filters for outbound messaging
  • Easy set up
  • User friendly
  • Nice community of other users
  • Reports could be better
  • Pricing is very complicated, especially if you're not in the US
  • Being able to change a value from text to number would be awesome
I wouldn't recommend to companies that would see it as an expense. Using Intercom is an investment, and the more you use it, the better your Customer Experience will be.
It makes a lot of sense to have all their features, this will make both sides (you and your CS Team & end users) run smoothly. Be aware that they will charge for leads saved on their platform, so I would suggest having only active users live on your account while former trials and top-of-the-funnel leads could be stored in another place with cheaper costs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mainly using Intercom for product support and internal team escalations. We are using Intercom to collect customer data and customer support data for as voice of customer for future product development. For internal escalation, we are using it for efficiency and quality measurement for our internal colleagues to track the progress of the cases. Automation is part of the usage as well to manage some automated customer interaction.
  • Report dashboard, dashboard is easy to use and see everything in 1 glance
  • Interactive and fun UI/UX
  • Flexible in terms of integration with other tools
  • Inbox rule is a pain, there is no way for you to manage it in one glance and grouping
  • Customer support is not efficient, often take more than 1 day to respond to you
  • Lack of flexibility in report customisation, you can't customise the report as you wish and will have to follow the template
I would say 8, what is lacking from Intercom to be 10 are as follows:
1. Product support responsiveness, there is no immediate response from Intercom
2. High breakdown frequency, always have latency issue or the whole tool breakdown which impact business
3. Limited support channel, no voice call or email. You will have to use intercom chat tool to reach out to support, in the event of emergency you are on your own since their response is slow.
4. No business continuity plan function in the event of downtime, all business will stuck in the event of Intercom downtime
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use it to send communications and structure onboarding journeys with tours, posts, articles and checklists.I monitor the metrics and constantly update these communications.
  • checklists and tours
  • segmentations
  • access and user control
  • editing communications, personalization features, email layout
  • metrics and filters, some period filters are made in the chacklist and do not impact on all the metrics presented, requiring manual export and organization
Intercom is a very complete tool, with many features and frequent updates and improvements. The outbound functionalities are very diverse.
November 22, 2023

Very Useful to Have

Richa Khera | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Intercom is used by the teams who specifically are gathering customer data through NPS, and CSAT scores. They heavily use it to float these surveys in the product. It is channel agnostic, so we were able to collect data through our surveys through our product's mobile app and web platform. We also had Intercom specialists on our team.
  • Survey creation
  • Survey design
  • Education of the tool, too many technical things to learn if you’re not an expert on pushing out surveys to specific audiences
It was super easy to design the survey through the templates they offer. However, someone who is not an expert with the software can struggle when launching and testing this out. It also has very specific use of short survey data collection, if you want to collect something longer and longitudinally over time this tool is not the best for that.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom on our public facing website, on our web platform as well as our support email. All of the tickets funnel into one inbox for our support team to monitor. This helps our team all stay on the same page and be able to answer customer support inquiries effectively.
  • Easy to use
  • Great for internal communication
  • Great for tracking tickets with tags
  • It would be great if you could put up an away message after hours that was a form that people could fill out and it sends an after hours email.
If you have a customer support team that needs to be able to communicate effectively, this is the product for you. Also, if you are managing multiple systems and you need tickets to go to specific teams, this is a fantastic tool to accomplish that. It is also great to be able to receive support emails and online chats all in one place.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom to help answer queries from our clients which allows us to be there straight away to respond and help them get immediate value out of our platform.
  • Really easy to use
  • Notifications that let us know when we have a questions which allows us to reply asap
  • Easy to keep track of past and current conversations
  • Sometimes the sound alert doesn't come through to my computer even though i haven't changed anything
It is really good for allowing customers to get an immediate response to questions they might have about how to use a service because it saves them emailing a particular person who might be busy, because instead they get a response from anyone on the team who has seen the message.
Medolago Alessandra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Customers write in chat to seek support while using our software, and we reply live except for the night time where we take advantage of the automation and the "robot" (as we call it) responds to the customer.
I find it a very good tool to have while assisting clients
  • managing chats it's easy
  • integrations
  • macros and faqs are awesome!
  • write a response and program it to be sent at a later time
  • make it clearer when we are live and when the robot is
  • preview what the customer is typing before he sends the message
Very well suited for customers that are easygoing, as the chat channel is immediate and more friendly. Less suited when customers expect a "real person" response and find the robot instead, as it is not so clear to them when we are live apparently, and also because we cannot see what they are typing in advance
November 02, 2023

Intercom Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We work on cases created and sent via Intercom for the Real Estate Industry. We support an App and any customer service issue / concern leads to cases being created and closed via Intercom.
  • Case creation.
  • Data Availability
  • Case Review
  • Downloading Data takes long
Intercom allows quick access to cases and responses between individuals are also sent and received quickly.
November 02, 2023

Support Simplified

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It allows us to simplify ticketing. Previously it was done on Teams which was a nightmare and now we are able to consistently deal with customer tickets, escalate when necessary and effectively prioritise them when needed.

As of recent, we've had to use some integrations i.e Trello and Jira and intercom has made it a breeze raising specific ticket types.
  • Customer Ticketing
  • Reporting
  • More 'plug and play' functionality like Jira for Tickets. I would love to figure out how to use rest api calls and zaps but I don't have the time to learn.
A user ticket comes in and immediately I know because of the attributes what needs to be actioned, shared or prioritised.

Inadvertently, users sometimes raise tickets in the wrong section so that cancels out the purpose of self serving ticketing, but it simply means an extra step for me to manually send it through to the right team.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Intercom helps us categorize issues per product, this is particularly helpful when reporting on metrics & KPIs.
Excellent display of self-serve content for all our clients and the possibility to choose and filter audience that can see it.
Outbound allows us to proactively relay any widespread issues to the affected clients in a very efficient and interactive manner.
Outbound serves great for advertising new products as well.
Interactive chat bot that our consumers like!
  • Self-serve content creation
  • Workflows editing
  • Reporting
  • Great customer support!
  • Very interactive
  • Reporting - for example, we would benefit if outbound conversations are included in the "conversations made" report. Often times we send credentials to our clients and they are not supposed to respond back, so in such scenario we cannot track and identify such conversations (only via tags).
  • Macros to include email subjects.
  • Including external recipients in conversations has issues every now and then.
  • Send conversation number in automated email reply.
We were able to advertise a product to only hand-picked audience.
Helped improve our customer support KPI metrics significantly as compared to the previous system.
Put together an initiative to reward the best survey agent at the end of each month.
Helped identify which agent is excelling and lacking in certain areas.
November 01, 2023

My Experience

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for support, Queries of customer, scope is very good , we can solve queries because of intercom easily
  • Its shortcuts facilities
  • Easy to use macros and create your own as well
  • Friendly interface
  • Some times it take time to to jump from one chat to another
  • There should be auto assign chats to those who have less chats
  • There should not be smileys reaction after closing a chat, because most of the customers did not write reviews because of those smileys reaction
As i've mentioned before, its quite easy to use, and love its shortcuts, I can't tell you because i don't think that there are any scenarios where it is less appropriate to use intercom,
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom for customer-facing communication. It is an easy line of communication directly to our support team so that we can assist suppliers without needing to get into back-and-forth emails, or try and reach each other on the phone. This is excellent since we are a global company, and many suppliers don't wish to pay for international calls to our global headquarters. Giving exact details and solutions to suppliers instantly across the world helps us maintain our company's effectiveness. We recently introduced an automated chatbot feature instead of just live agents and that helps us maintain consistent communication across our suppliers as well. Letting a bot handle initial contact while always providing the option to speak to a live agent is a wonderful feature, and being on the back end of things, we can see what problems people are having, so that when someone reaches out to a real person, we can have a solution ready to deploy or communicate to them immediately instead of having to research the problem all over again. That speed helps us maintain the level of customer service that our suppliers expect from us.
  • Intercom bots are extremely capable
  • Intercom is just FAST, there are no delays in sending messages
  • Intercom is extremely robust with its macro options
  • Intercom notifications to the back end user could be improved. We don't always hear the chat notification until after the user has sat there for a couple of minutes waiting for a response.
  • The intercom bot got a little sassy with a gif the other day? No idea how that happened. It sent "Kissing Keanu" which is less than professional
I find the UI on both the inbound and customer service side to be extremely intuitive and easy to understand. The ability to send pictures, gifs, and videos, is extremely helpful because we can send how-to examples quite easily instead of trying to describe everything.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Intercom works for us.We use this program to answer customer's inquiries. This is where I spend the majority of my work day helping our customers. It is a very efficient tool and allows me to do my job with ease. Everything is right where I need it. I love Intercom.
  • Saved responses
  • Navigation made easy
  • Resolve issues quickly
  • Combining messages would be nice
  • Blocking certain spam messages
I haven't used it very long, but I already feel like a pro. It is easy to navigate and I feel like everything is right in front of me that I need. I never have to search very long to find anything, which is awesome! Easiest tool in my opinion.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom for our customer service duties. It's a valuable and easy-to-use tool to communicate effectively with customers and users. It provides the necessary tools to carry our jib and give the best customer experience possible. It's also helpful for workload organization and distribution between different departments, so it is easy to collaborate with other teams. Moreover, it provides our customers with an easy-to-use interface to communicate their questions and issues.
  • Platform design
  • Customer Support
  • Detailed customisable data about interactions and ratings
  • Loading faster when there are a lot of tickets
  • Better search engine
  • More filter
Intercom is an excellent tool if you are in a customer-facing role since it makes it easier to interact with users of our platform and very easy to access their data. It's also great for them to send us screenshots, screen-recording, or links to see the issues they're facing. It's also easy to create different squads for each department and it makes it really easy to change the ticket from one team's inbox to another. It's also amazing for getting data on customer satisfaction or the team's performance regarding response times.
Doni Brass | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Intercom gives me the ability to build product tours, message my users, announce new features and make urgent announcements without depending on my engineering team to write code. For me this is an essential way to have a relationship with my customers/users as a product manager. In addition, Intercom serves as a help center for product related documentation available directly in our web app (without the need to navigate away) and a chat/chatbot for users to ask questions and share feedback.
  • Product Tours for new users or new features
  • Interactive chat and search experience for help center content.
  • Feature announcements and product alerts without the need for dev involvement.
  • Every new feature you need requires an upgrade to a paid add-on.
  • I sometimes find it hard to segment my audience in the nuanced ways I'd like to.
  • Product tours don't always integrate as expected and sometimes it feels more complicated than needed to write the rules for where/when/how they should appear.
It's great for product tours, user chats and updates directly on the webapp. It's less suited if you want to specifically target an audience based on behavior related criteria.
Danielle Constantine | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Live Chat Operations: MyHSA employs Intercom's live chat feature to provide real-time assistance to its users. We moved from Zendesk as it was awful. Life has been better ever since. When users have questions or issues, they can instantly engage with a MyHSA support representative, or a custom bot! This feature facilitates quick problem resolution, increasing user satisfaction and trust in the platform (which is super important with insurance and health care).

Pushing New Products and Features: Intercom enables MyHSA to proactively inform users about new products, features, and updates. Through targeted in-app messages, email campaigns, and push notifications, MyHSA can now reach out to the right users at the right time. This helps increase user adoption of new offerings and ensures users are aware of the latest enhancements.

Surveying Our Users: MyHSA plans to collect valuable user feedback through Intercom's CSAT and NPS survey tools. By sending targeted surveys at appropriate touchpoints, such as after a user interaction or a product update, MyHSA hopes to gather insights into user satisfaction, preferences, and pain points. This feedback will inform our product development and customer service improvements.

Product Tours: To onboard new users effectively and showcase key features, MyHSA will employ Intercom's product tour functionality. When users sign up or access the platform, interactive product tours guide them through the application, highlighting the most important features. This enhances user engagement and reduces onboarding friction.

Articles: MyHSA maintains an extensive knowledge base with articles addressing common user queries and issues. Intercom's Articles feature helps organize, display, and share these resources with users seamlessly. When users encounter issues or have questions, support representatives can send relevant articles to assist them, leading to quicker problem resolution and empowering users to find answers independently.

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are essential resources for self-service support. MyHSA utilizes Intercom's FAQ integration to maintain a dynamic FAQ section. Users can access this section to find answers to common queries, reducing the need for direct support interactions. This not only saves time for users but also allows MyHSA's support team to focus on more complex issues.
  • Customer Service - the main key to us going to intercom was the Customer Experience! Especially after Zendesk repeatedly left us high and dry
  • Customization - not all companies have the same needs and Intercom does a great job of customizing the platform from the user side so that we can make any changes we want!
  • Marketing - I actually want to take part in the community, the ads and videos on Linkedin, and any webinars because Intercom has a casual and fun yet professional way about it.
  • Lots of information and resources - hard to find succinct answers to questions
  • some technical issues don't seem to be getting solved and require too much input from the user to have them looked into
intercom is well suited to our live chat operations, but is less suited towards our support operations (atleast so far) because we are a small company that doesn't use tickets.
Mateus Aléssio Fogaça | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Intercom to create and manage all communication campaigns with my clients.These campaigns range from communications about product launches, satisfaction surveys and invitations to events.The channels I use most are: Emai, Pop up, Tooltip and News.I also manage my clients’ segmentations. My company is a SAAS specialized in providing Lean planning solutions for construction companies.I am responsible for all customer contact points. From individual communications to mass communications.I need to create them, segment them and monitor their engagement and make internal reports for my leaders.
  • comunication in app
  • user segmentation
  • countless forms of communication
  • reports on communications performance
  • more customization
  • improve usability when creating tours
In the two years I have been using Intercom, the platform has met my needs well.I am responsible for all management of customer contact points, whether individual or in bulk.Therefore, I need to create, segment, manage and track engagement results.For creating rich content campaigns, inviting events and product launches, Intercom works very well.Even for onboarding experiences for new users, I was able to create a flow with Tours, Tooltips and Emails.Segments also work well. I need to create clusters based on different characteristics of my users and the platform allows me to identify them and use segmentation in communications. Which helps a lot in personalizing my messages.However, the graphics functionality from engagement to communications leaves a lot to be desired. It is not visual, it is not possible to perform different filters and it is not possible to collect important insights. I do this monitoring using an Excel spreadsheet.
October 06, 2023

Intercom for me

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom mainly as our go-to platform for customer interactions. It helps us manage our customer support queries, allowing us to respond to our users in real time, and it’s super handy for engaging with potential customers and leads. It addresses our need to keep communication lines open and clear, solve user issues swiftly, and it’s crucial for getting feedback. It’s pretty much our all-in-one tool for anything customer-related!
  • Live chat
  • Summaries
  • snoozing
  • Notifications and follow up on chats
  • spam inbox is not always spam
  • manage it since the beggingn
Certainly! Below are scenarios where Intercom is well-suited and less appropriate based on general user experiences and use-cases.### Well-Suited Scenarios:1. **E-Commerce Websites:** - Intercom is highly suitable for e-commerce platforms where real-time customer support and targeted messaging can significantly enhance customer experience and resolve queries instantly.2. **SaaS Companies:** - It’s excellent for SaaS businesses for onboarding users, providing support, and sending targeted in-app messages or emails based on user behavior and lifecycle stage.3. **Lead Generation:** - For businesses focusing on lead generation, Intercom's chatbots can qualify leads in real-time, book meetings, and capture lead information, making it a valuable tool for sales teams.4. **Knowledge Base Creation:** - Companies looking to create a comprehensive help center for self-service support find Intercom’s knowledge base features extremely useful.5. **User Engagement & Retention:** - For apps and platforms looking to increase user engagement and retention through personalized and timely in-app messages and notifications.### Less Appropriate Scenarios:1. **Budget Constraints:** - For very small businesses or startups with limited budgets, Intercom might be less appropriate due to its pricing model.2. **Simple Use Cases:** - If a company only needs a simple live chat without advanced segmentation, targeting, or automation, Intercom might be overly complex and feature-rich for their needs.3. **Non-Digital Businesses:** - Businesses that operate primarily offline and do not have a significant online presence may not benefit as much from Intercom's suite of tools.4. **Data Privacy Concerns:** - In scenarios where extremely sensitive data is being handled, some companies might find Intercom’s data handling and storage practices not aligned with their stringent data privacy requirements.5. **Customization Limitations:** - While Intercom is highly customizable, there are still limitations, and businesses with very specific and unique customization needs might find Intercom less appropriate.Remember, the appropriateness of Intercom largely depends on the specific needs, requirements, and constraints of a given organization or use case.
September 29, 2023

Intercom has been great!

Justin Wright | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our website prompts visitors to connect if they have any questions or concerns. I work with Technical Support but often end up forwarding things onto accounting as well.
  • Communicates first contact
  • Opens up a line of communication
  • Notifies us through the website and through email
  • I think the interface could be a little more aesthetically pleasing.
It comes in handy when someone has a quick question or needs to make a quick connection with one of our teams. It also comes in very handy by providing a different avenue to connect with us opposed to waiting hold for an extended amount of time. This is super helpful when we're busy/short handed.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organization uses multiple aspects of the Intercom solution. It's used for outbound messaging, in-application messaging, customer support, and the Help Center/knowledge base articles. My own interactions with Intercom are mostly limited to the outbound messaging features (for sending release notes) and the articles/Help Center, where I spend most of my time. It may be that my organization uses Intercom for CRM as well; as a freelancer, I don't have full visibility.
  • Intercom is continually improving the articles/Help Center feature on an ongoing basis. It was very sorely lacking two years ago, but during the intervening time they have vastly improved the feature. They're approaching to feature parity with more advance tools I've used elsewhere, and they now have some cool features that are better than some of their competition.
  • Intercom seems invested in improving the outbound messaging feature, as well, though I don't interact with it as often. But they've been making improvements.
  • Intercom seems to be striving to be competitive with the implementation of generative AI-driven features (and I'm not talking about chatbot). Specifically, an AI tool recently appeared in the articles editor--I haven't messed with it very much, but from what I can tell, it couldn't possibly be any easier to use, and seems reminiscent of other generative AI tools available externally.
  • Getting into the nitty gritty, then--the articles/Help Center has improved vastly in two years and I believe that will continue. however, there are still some shortcomings/missing features and functionality. For example, there's no built-in grammar check (it does spell check, but can't detect usage mistakes).
  • I'd also like the Help Center/articles feature to allow direct access to the HTML/CSS for quick edits of content created using the WYSIWYG editor.
  • You can't control the font at all, other than applying broadly defined styles like H1, H2, H3, or H4. (For example, there's no control over font size, color, or background color/highlighting, although they have recently added some handy support for handsome plug-and-play callouts.)
  • The outbound messaging feature--at least using the "Email" module--has a much more restrictive feature set compared to the Help Center/articles editor. I get the impression it's just not caught up yet.
  • The Help Center/articles feature doesn't play nice with other popular text editors. If I copy and paste from an Intercom article into a Google Doc, for example--which is often necessary--the result is a train wreck of styling failures. Very much of the document styling, white space, table structure where applicable, image sizes, about half the RTF---the whole thing comes off completely wrong. I end up having to spend extra time reformatting the content for the benefit of the intended audience, just to avoid appearing as (more of ) a nincompoop when internal stakeholders review my content.
I've been using Intercom articles/Help Center feature for around two years, and it's adequate for that. I can't speak to its usefulness as a customer support tool or CRM solution. I have used the outbound messaging feature somewhat in the last six months or so, and it seems alright too. The audience targeting features are quite flexible, for example, but the message editor functions leave something to be desired. I've also seen firsthand the effects of the in-product messaging/product tours features and they seem pretty slick as well... maybe a tiny bit lacking in polish, but that might just be a matter of implementation; I haven't had experience setting them up.
Nestor Rivero | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Intercom serves as our primary interface for interacting with customers, allowing us to seamlessly manage inbound inquiries, provide timely support, and nurture leads throughout their journey. Its intuitive chat functionality has significantly improved our response times, resulting in heightened customer satisfaction and trust.Furthermore, the product's robust automation features have enabled us to streamline repetitive tasks, ensuring that our team can focus on higher-value activities. By setting up targeted messaging campaigns, we've experienced a notable increase in user retention and product adoption rates.The scope of our use case extends beyond traditional customer support. Intercom has become an integral part of our marketing efforts, allowing us to conduct personalized outreach and gather valuable insights through surveys and feedback loops. This data-driven approach has proven invaluable in refining our product offerings and aligning them with customer needs.I highly recommend implementing Intercom for any organization seeking to elevate their customer engagement and support efforts. Its user-friendly interface, coupled with powerful automation and targeting capabilities, empowers teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences. With Intercom, we've witnessed a tangible impact on customer satisfaction, retention, and overall business performance. 5 Stars!!
  • Real-time Customer Engagement
  • Targeted Messaging Campaigns
  • Automated Workflows
  • Unified Communication Channels
  • Feedback Collection and Analysis
  • Intuitive Reporting and Analytics
  • Expanded AI Capabilities
  • Enhanced Mobile Experience for Agents
  • Multi-language Support
  • Enhanced Workflow Automation
  • Advanced Reporting Customization
Well-Suited Scenarios:

Real-Time Customer Support: Intercom excels in scenarios where immediate customer support and engagement are crucial. For example, handling urgent queries or providing instant assistance during onboarding processes.

Personalized Messaging Campaigns: It's highly effective for targeted messaging campaigns based on user behavior or characteristics. This is particularly valuable for nurturing leads, promoting new features, and re-engaging inactive users.

Less Appropriate Scenarios:

Highly Complex Workflows: In scenarios requiring intricate multi-step automation workflows with conditional branching, Intercom may have limitations. It may be less suitable for handling exceptionally complex and conditional processes.

Robust Advanced Reporting Needs: If an organization requires highly customized, intricate reporting beyond Intercom's native capabilities, additional tools or integrations may be necessary to meet those specific needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For our Real Estate SaaS business. Intercoms services our live chat and support inboxes to allow us to respond to customer support and feedback across three different markets/time zones of Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, all supported from our Australia office despite a 12-hour spread between them. Intercom is also used for our comms to our platform (current customer) users to advise them on changes, promotions, and downtime. Hence, they stay informed of how we operate as a business and encourage platform action and behaviors (getting users to return to the platform regularly). Here Intercom acts as our digital/email marketing platform so we can measure user engagement with comms, then feed this into how their platform behavior changes. This can be the regularity of access, time spent in the system, or if they access new features for the first time, with all the data feedback to our customer support and account management teams to action, including integration with HubSpot, our internal CRM system.
  • Live chat.
  • User comms.
  • Marketing comms.
  • API
  • Support inbox.
  • Tracking and metrics of user activity.
  • Email comms functionality and plugins.
  • Measuring email comms interactions.
  • Still required to run email support alongside cannot totally replace support@inbox just yet.
  • Easier data imports and exports.
Intercom is, in my opinion, well suited for platform-based SaaS businesses where user engagement dictates your LTV to those customers and feeds back the metrics of how often users access the platform is key to your Account Management strategy and processes. In my experience, enterprise-level organizations very much appreciate Intercom user reporting and will likely start to expect this level of transparency in the very near future as platforms like Intercom become market standard. I would say Intercom is less suitable for Transaction or Throughput /Channel Sale products where your user data and in-platform behaviors are less relevant as the transaction has taken place outside of the platform, so, therefore, your platform usage is externally dependent. Thus Intercom tracking and data become a less relevant lagging indicator rather than a leading indicator with SaaS products.
September 14, 2023

Feedback

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use intercom to write and hold support articles, use live chat to support customers, and to integrate with Userguiding. We are a smaller tech start and intercom has provided a central place for all things support.
  • Easy to use
  • Good analytics
  • Easy for non-tech users
  • better customer support (talking to a person)
  • easier integration with userguiding
  • better integration with JIRA
I really enjoy how each article can be rated on top of the other great analytics provided. The chat function is great to use, but I wish the JIRA integration was better and did not require additional work in JIRA (putting description of problem in the description in JIRA).
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom for incoming support requests, sales conversations, and customer success. Intercom allows us to streamline communication across various teams to collaborate on platform bugs, technical issues, or answering general questions for our customers.
  • Visibility and Collaboration
  • Easy Navigation
  • Conversation Organization with Tags
  • Honestly, nothing!
Intercom allows our team to truly collaborate and provide visibility on conversations with customers. I really enjoy using the note feature to tag our support team when I need them to jump in on a conversation with me or tag my manager if it's an escalation.
September 12, 2023

Intercom review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Intercom is a great platform for managing customer conversations and campaigns, as it allows us to unify our email, chat, and social media messages from customers. Unfortunately, the platform does not currently support SMS and calls in our region. Nevertheless, the interface is very user-friendly and navigation is quite easy.
  • User friendly interface
  • Packed with great features
  • Communicate updates frequently
  • SMS and Calling support for our region
  • Pricing is a bit dodgy
  • Support responses can be improved
- Great CRM software
- Intercom reporting is easy to use but not easily customizable
- Calling feature is promising but unable to use it fully as our region is not supported
- Switch is also a great feature, but then again not supported in our region
- Series and Workflows work well with our needs
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