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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Works good!
Intercom definitely helps us support user adoption and satisfaction
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Popular Features
- Email support (105)8.888%
- Ticket creation and submission (104)8.383%
- Ticket response (109)7.878%
- External knowledge base (114)7.474%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Essential
$39
Advanced
$99
Expert
$139
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Features
Incident and problem management
Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes
- 8.4Organize and prioritize service tickets(101) Ratings
Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first
- 8Expert directory(68) Ratings
Directory of IT and businesses services available to customers to help route tickets to appropriate subject matter experts
- 7.7Subscription-based notifications(67) Ratings
Users subscribe to notifications for ticket updates
- 8.2ITSM collaboration and documentation(75) Ratings
Issue resolution through collaboration mechanisms like discussion threads, social tools; agents can attach notes, files, etc. to tickets in order to maintain a record of all interactions related to the case.
- 8.3Ticket creation and submission(104) Ratings
Users and agents can easily enter new support requests.
- 7.8Ticket response(109) Ratings
Agents can easily follow up with customers.
Self Help Community
Features that allow customers to self-service for support issues.
- 7.4External knowledge base(114) Ratings
Customers can self-service by searching through help articles.
- 7.2Internal knowledge base(99) Ratings
Internal knowledge base helps agents answer customers' support questions.
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.
- 8.5Customer portal(89) Ratings
Customer portal allows customers to submit tickets themselves and/or access self help resources.
- 7.7IVR(36) Ratings
Includes an interactive voice response system for routing callers to the correct agent or information.
- 7.5Social integration(69) Ratings
Agents can communicate with customers via social networks like Facebook and Twitter; may also include brand activity monitoring/reporting capabilities.
- 8.8Email support(105) Ratings
Integrates with email so that agents can send and receive information related to support tickets via email; email communications are attached to support tickets.
- 8.5Help Desk CRM integration(80) Ratings
Integrates with CRM so that tickets and support communications are coordinated with customers' records.
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What is Intercom?
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.
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Intercom Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Languages | Arabic, 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). |
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(51-75 of 260)Pretty Satisfied
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
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.
A review for customer support
- 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
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
Intercom is a complete software
- 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
Very Useful to Have
- 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
Great Customer Support Tool
- 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.
Wouldn't use anything else!
- 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
Good tool with room for improvement to easily become the best asset
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
Intercom Review
- Case creation.
- Data Availability
- Case Review
- Downloading Data takes long
Support Simplified
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.
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.
Intercom from customer support perspective
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.
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.
My Experience
- 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
Intercom Supports Support Teams!
- 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 would choose Intercom everytime!
- Saved responses
- Navigation made easy
- Resolve issues quickly
- Combining messages would be nice
- Blocking certain spam messages
Great Customer Support tool
- 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
- 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.
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
An honest review about Intercom
- comunication in app
- user segmentation
- countless forms of communication
- reports on communications performance
- more customization
- improve usability when creating tours
Intercom for me
- Live chat
- Summaries
- snoozing
- Notifications and follow up on chats
- spam inbox is not always spam
- manage it since the beggingn
Intercom has been great!
- 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.
Improving by Leaps and Bounds
- 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.
Revolutionizing Communication: Intercom's Impact on Customer Engagement
- 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
Intercom is every start-up/scale-ups friend.
- 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.
Feedback
- 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
The best support platform EVER! 🚀
- Visibility and Collaboration
- Easy Navigation
- Conversation Organization with Tags
- Honestly, nothing!
Intercom review
- 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
- 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