Skip to main content
TrustRadius
Intercom

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…

Read more
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 …
Continue reading

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 …
Continue reading

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 …
Continue reading

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 …
Continue reading

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 …
Continue reading

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 …
Continue reading
Read all reviews

Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

View all 13 features
  • 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%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

View all pros & cons
Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing

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
Return to navigation

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
Return to navigation

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 AI Agent - The agent resolves 50% of support volume.Screenshot of AI Copilot - A personal AI assistant for every support agent.Screenshot of Omnichannel inbox - AI-enhanced to increase productivity.Screenshot of Tickets - Intercom tickets are designed for collaboration so complex issues are resolved faster.Screenshot of Help Center -  The help center powers AI and self-serve support.Screenshot of Workflows - Automations are built using the Intercom no code visual builder.

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).
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives
Return to navigation

Reviews and Ratings

(645)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-25 of 110)
Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
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.
  • 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
It is great for building a knowledge base for customers to use, and is wonderful at allowing us to share information with our users. So if somebody is trying to build a help center or just keep tabs on and contact their users, it's wonderful. It is not particularly useful if youd like highly customizeable emails, help center, articles, etc. in terms of layout and design.
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.
  • 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
Intercom is a great tool to provide quick and productive chat support. It provides an easy to use platform to communicate with customers.
It does provide an email option but this option can be time delayed and not as efficient as the chat option.
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.
  • 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.
It has been so great because all of the customer's inquiries come in through one platform. So, we have our contact form, direct emails, social media etc and it makes everything so easy to get back to people quickly.
I haven't come across an area where it's less appropriate as it does exactly what it intends to do.
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.
  • 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 real time customer support needs - that's where it really shines.
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.
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.
  • 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 is a powerful customer communication platform that can be effectively utilized in various scenarios across different industries. Here are some specific scenarios where Intercom is well-suited, as well as situations where it might be less appropriate: Well-suited scenarios for Intercom: Customer Support, Onboarding and Training, Product Announcements, and Updates. Scenarios where Intercom might be less appropriate: Low Website Traffic, Complex Support Needs.
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.
  • 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 is very easy to stand-up and learn as a team. It has a lot of useful features for CS teams and a good amount of customization options. I think the only features I would like would be to enable email reporting of daily CSATs with ratings to go out to a manager. Also, ability to see survey ratings when standing up the Slack integration would be nice. Currently, you have to still click the link to open the convo to then view the rating.
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.
  • 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.
It's well suited when you work closely with the product and development team and need to share customer feedback, bugs, and feature enhancements.
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.
  • 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
I recommend chat support, help page creation, 1-to-1 messages to users, and user behavior collection all in one tool, and you can get started at a reasonable price.There are specialized tools for each, but I feel that the minimum plans are expensive and don't reach the areas you need.
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.
  • Help Guides
  • Chat Support
  • Marketing
  • Tags
  • In-app translations
  • Pricing
  • Workflows
Intercom is incredibly well suited to teams who are looking for an easy to integrate on-platform solution to their support-chat needs, and can also host support articles in multiple languages. This is great for teams with a global clientele.

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.
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.
  • Email Ticketing
  • CRM
  • Internal and External Knowledge base
  • Customer Service Management
  • Customer Support
  • Placeholder
  • CS portal
Easy to use, user friendly and Intercom Knowledge base articles are easy to understand. You can also see when was the last time that the article was updated, the interface is aligned properly, no excessive buttons, you can find where you have to go to and there's always a demonstration the first time you access it.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company uses Intercom for support requests, user documentation, and onboarding guides for trialers. It is meant for users to be able to get the help they need without necessarily involving a support person. The Bug and Feature requests that come in through Intercom are tied back to tickets in Jira for tracking and notification when and if a Jira ticket gets picked up.
  • 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.
Their chatbot is useful for messaging with support and searching help docs. However, their support could be better. Also, their documentation was missing key features (e.g. nested collections) until recently.
February 06, 2024

Intercom Review.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for customer success; a lot of it uses the in-app chat for our customer support.
  • 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.
It does what it does well -- if you are looking for an easy-to-use in-app chat to keep your CS organized, this is a good product. It is not quite a salesforce or a HubSpot in terms of robust capabilities, but it is relatively easy to intuit. some of the features are a little simplistic, and the analytics often leave me wanting more, but there is a lot of good, easy-to-use stuff here.
January 24, 2024

Intercom 2024 Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to talk to customers in real time to answer technical and sales questions for them. We can interface with our website and give them direct links to products, order information, quotes, etc. They ca do this without waiting on the phone, and it can be much quicker than back and forth emails.
  • Ease of use
  • Quick response times
  • Macro options
  • Appearance settings like font size, colors
I think its well suited to any business that has a large inventory. Can be difficult searching if you don't know exactly what you want. This enables you to talk to a pro in real time and get that extra help. Probably not well suited for a business that just uses it for general inquiries. That can be done over emails or a phone call.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Intercom to respond to client questions and troubleshoot issues in live time, so that we can provide a timely service to our clients. It also allows us to monitor and respond to clients when the individual responsible for them is busy or out of office. Further, it ensures that a constant line of communication can be open with clients, such that we can be seen as trusted advisors
  • 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
In my opinion, Intercom is well suited to scenarios where experienced users do not need training on platform, and have a specific question on how to use a smaller feature or function of the platform. I think Intercom is less appropriate in situations where you try to reach out to clients out of the blue, or for answering without need for human input (ie. simple questions)
December 22, 2023

December blues

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use intercom for:
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.
I think people need to have a certain level of tech savviness to use the chat messenger well. It may not be an intercom problem but not everyone in every industry is curious enough so we have had customers that find the chat messenger not as straightforward as they wish
December 06, 2023

AI Integration Is Amazing

Lily Goff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We find the AI integration amazingly helpful both for our team writing emails but also for the Fin Bot function.
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
Intercom is ideal for companies that have a large influx of customer questions, especially repetitive questions such as "Do you accept gift vouchers", the ability to "train" the bot to answer these questions correctly and feed it information is amazing and reduces the amount of emails our team receive/need to reply to.
This also speeds up and improves our overall customer service.
December 04, 2023

INTERCOM ALL THE WAY.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Intercom helps our company to communicate with our customers. It helps us bridge gaps to our services that we provide and solve ongoing issues that our customers face everyday. By this, we can come up with a solution right away and it keeps our customer service a very good output.
  • Communication
  • Efficiency
  • Problem-Solving
  • Organization
  • User Interface
  • System updates
In our industry, we do need a tool that will help us communicate with our customers and address their issues. Intercom does everything for us. It helps us organize our chats and keeps our team in tact while tackling a lot of issues with our customers. Indeed, intercom is a helpful tool.
November 28, 2023

Amazing all-rounder tool

Temim Tabakovic | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as a main customer support channel on our platform, and also considering using it as a feedback tool, and CS checklist tool.
  • Handels automations
  • Great chat handling
  • Loads of options to choose
  • Become more user friendly
It plug and play solution and it is highly useful in smaller organizations that don't have the resources to adjust and tune everything.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Intercom helps us to manage all our customer service and support communications, both reactive and proactive. We receive online chats, WhatsApp messages, and e-mails, all in a single help desk. In this aspect, the most pressing problem Intercom solves for us are the out of office hours queries by users who have a significant time difference with us.
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.
Intercom has proven very useful to let our users know whenever we're having outage issues with providers or the platform itself. It is very easy to upload messages that'll be delivered to all users instantly.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Return to navigation