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…
Intercom is the best for customer support
Amazing Product and User Friendly!
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If you are not using Intercom you are missing out!
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Our startup journey with intercome
Works good!
Intercom definitely helps us support user adoption and satisfaction
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Intercom: Easy To Use and Feature Rich!
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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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(1-25 of 110)Building a Help Center and Communicationg with Customers
- Creating articles
- Creating/Tracking emails
- Allowing for live chat, and letting those chats be auto assigned to representatives in our company
- More customization in email and article creation
- Tooltips seem to regularly lose their placement
- I wish it would stay in dark mode across all aspects of the platform
Amazing Product and User Friendly!
- organizes multiple chats
- provides extensive details of account information
- provides great shortcut options
- give better alert options when customer is responding in chat
- add different color options for backgrounds to separate menus
- add pop up chats to separate chat window
It does provide an email option but this option can be time delayed and not as efficient as the chat option.
Love Intercom!
- Respond to any issues in a very quick manner.
- The organization of the platform is very clear and things aren't hard to find.
- There are rarely any technical issues so everything always goes smoothly.
- Grouping conversations together in the inbox if they're from the same email address would be nice. We have several customers who like to send multiple messages so if they could automatically group, that would be awesome.
- Have the ability to add an integration to link to the most recent order associated with their account would be awesome.
- Along the same line, have a link to access their account in our customer database software.
- The ability to delay sending the email. So say up to 60 seconds, so we can undo the message and edit anything if we notice a typo or something right after we hit send.
I haven't come across an area where it's less appropriate as it does exactly what it intends to do.
Intercom review
- Help desk features - live chat with customer support
- Routing and handling many conversations / tickets at the same time
- Analytics of each individual customer support agent
- Pricing - it is not a cheap product and more features could be included in lower tier packages
- Customer segmentation is not as simple as I would like it to be
- For being a help desk / customer support company, they are not the fastest at responding to any questions we might have
Well suited for proactive outreach and the ability to gather feedback from customers + surveys.
Less appropriate for a non techie company to set it up, basically any sort of changes in integration have to be done by an engineer.
Good Product
- Real-time communication
- Easy to use
- Clear interface
- Sound notification when a message comes
- Organize messages in categories
- Better sound alert when a message comes
- Ability to change messages after sent
Intercom: Easy To Use and Feature Rich!
- Workflows -> customizing the user experience
- CSAT (customer satisfaction score) -> very easy to collect data and analyze
- Help Center Article creation
- Reporting and analyzing data from the tool is very easy
- The ability to merge conversations would be nice.
- Customizing the survey for CSAT a bit more would be nice.
- Being able to send over survey ratings using the Slack integration where a link to open conversation would be nice.
- A daily CSAT high level overview email would be nice.
Intercom for small start-up enablement function
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.
- Ease of adding articles and creating collections
- AI responses
- Ticketing!
- Jira integration
- My only feedback is making articles and collectiosn easier by connectign to google drive, I need to maintain our documents locally and having to copy and paste and reformat into Intercom is time consuming.
Intercom: A Valuable Tool for User Analysis and Beyond
- Ease of searching, filtering and exporting users
- Users can be identified and registered by company.
- We can send messages to individual companies and users.
- Customizability of showing/hiding the support chat widget - Some of it is currently supported, but code implementation is required for things like displaying it on your body when you press a specific button on the site.
- I can't get logs for some users, but I don't know the cause.
- Help page design is poorly customizable
Hard to top!
- Help Guides
- Chat Support
- Marketing
- Tags
- In-app translations
- Pricing
- Workflows
With that said, we find ourselves having to use external tools to translate conversations with global clients, which could be better done with an in-house partnership with something like DeepL.
Intercom helped us more to getting started
- Email Ticketing
- CRM
- Internal and External Knowledge base
- Customer Service Management
- Customer Support
- Placeholder
- CS portal
Intercom is mostly useful albeit with a lot of setup and not great support on their end.
- Integrates the chatbot with the user documentation for self help by users.
- Onboarding guides help trialers use the app.
- Workflows enable specialized messaging where appropriate per user type.
- The email chains can be confusing as they are not necessarily in order.
- Using the documentation feature for internal docs can be confusing as they can't be in a collection like the public-facing user documentation can be.
- Their support team should track requests and be able to give status updates on them. They do not do this.
Intercom Review.
- In-app chat and organization.
- Easy to navigate UI.
- Easy to implement in-app popups, banners, and surveys.
- CSMs/intercom's customer success team could be more unified -- sometimes we will have a question, and our CSM says that is not something I am sure about.
- Some more robust CRM features would be great.
- Live chat support could be quicker.
Intercom 2024 Review
- Ease of use
- Quick response times
- Macro options
- Appearance settings like font size, colors
A key part of our client delivery
- Allows clients to interact with the support team in live time
- Messaging to clients directly
- Added features costing extra, such as automations
- Notifications can fail sometimes
December blues
Support: Our users send us support messages with questions both basic and complex. Also they report technical issues when these appear.
Outbound messaging: New products releases, news, surveys, adoption, event or webinars invitations. We also use Intercom to manage or Help Centre and we have tried to use it for onboarding purposes,too but we haven't had much success in this area.
- For building Help Centre articles is very good
- I love the surveys
- The options in messenger are very helpful
- Tooltips feel a bit glitchy
- The search options for conversations should have better filters (when you look convos using keywords for example or the lack of filter to leave out posts and outbound messages
- Suggested articles not all the time matches what the customer is asking or from the page the customer is opening the chat. It seems that Intercom bot shows the same article all the times.
AI Integration Is Amazing
This has reduced the amount of inbound emails we receive and has been invaluable at helping us stay on top of our customer service.
We do find that customers can assume this is a live chat function (which it is not) which can be a slight draw back but the Intercom team are very helpful and showed us how to filter these messages so our team can prioritise the response times on these emails.
- AI Integration
- Assigning tickets - the ability to still find these tickets once assigned
- Personality
- Ease of use
- Articles and help centre
- Live chat - if there was a way to have the live chat pop up as it does for the receiving end this would be a lot better
- Allocate the correct sending email when an email address is forwarded rather than bunch all email addresses together
- Option to forward an email to an outside email supplier for example Gmail
This also speeds up and improves our overall customer service.
INTERCOM ALL THE WAY.
- Communication
- Efficiency
- Problem-Solving
- Organization
- User Interface
- System updates
Amazing all-rounder tool
- Handels automations
- Great chat handling
- Loads of options to choose
- Become more user friendly
A solution for a user-centric support style
We also house our self-service resources, which helps us to deliver insightful articles at the right time for our users.
- Real time conversations via online chat and WhatsApp.
- AI suggestions for online conversations and article enrichment.
- Insightful reports, both default and customized.
- Easy to upload in-app messages, for communicating contingecies for example.
- Easy to integrate to a wide variety of apps.
- Editing tools for articles are a little too basic.
- Not all sorts of messages are available to integrate in series.
- It's not very easy to manage users with multiple companies, also users with more than one profile can't be merged.
- Series, and single messages are not easy to test beforehand, which leads to various trial/error instances.
The way Intercom defines and captures visitors/leads/users through its widget, is a little different from what we consider to be visitors/leads/users, so we can't fully depend on Intercom to segment our database.
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.
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.
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.
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