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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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- Email support (105)8.888%
- Ticket creation and submission (104)8.383%
- Ticket response (109)7.878%
- External knowledge base (114)7.474%
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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.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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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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.
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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April 16, 2024
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
April 15, 2024
Intercom is the best for customer support
- It organizes the conversation threads with users very well, keeping all the relevant information on a single screen.
- allows you to customize the interface to make the operator's work easier
- It has many reporting options to analyze the results
- shortcut key combinations
- more search options among conversations
April 11, 2024
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
April 10, 2024
Love Intercom!
- Ability to filter audience
- Very spiffy proactive support tools
- User friendly interface
- Excellent communications about Intercom product updates
- I don't handle this directly, so take this with a grain of salt, but it seems like the integration process can be intense just based on second hand information
- Would love to see some Hubspot integration!
April 10, 2024
Intercom is good for financial services companies
- Reporting has improved dramatically over the past year
- Take feedback from their users and implement the changes
- Organizes teams and flows easily
- Macros and shortcuts are easy to use
- Merging accounts and the duplication of messages
- Making chat vs. email more clear
April 09, 2024
If you are not using Intercom you are missing out!
- Integrations
- User Interface, best in class
- Omnichannel marketing
- Not an issue really, but would appreciate even further enhancements on setting default views for internal users
April 06, 2024
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.
April 01, 2024
High Cost, Low Value
- requires you to work without their support
- does not provide you with help post support
- limits the APIs you can work with
- Much better customer support
- Your dedicated success rep should provide their contact info
- invest in launch, versus going straight to more add on sales (then they call you right away)
March 29, 2024
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
March 26, 2024
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
March 21, 2024
Our startup journey with intercome
- Bot and the al powered features
- Centralize customer data and ability to integrate
- Great user-centric design and the ability to integrate with a variety of tools.
- Need to solve the latency issue
- Bit expensive and complex for solo and small business
March 08, 2024
Works good!
- Snoozing
- Filtering customers
- Workflow
- View
- Mark as unread (bolded text)
- Search engine
- Contact Segmentation
- Communication with customers (series, emails and chats)
- Help center
- Product Tours
February 29, 2024
Intercom
- Organized messages
- First in, first out
- Displaying images
- Macros pre-established to reduce repetitive typing
- Area to view closed messages
- Undo option remaining longer after closing messages
- Ability to mark messages as unread
February 26, 2024
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.
February 26, 2024
Intercom for small start-up enablement function
- 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.
February 23, 2024
I like using Intercom and you will too!
- Sort and manage in-app conversation.
- Leverage specific tags and filters to allow seamless transitions between products.
- Allow great visibility between users and leads.
- Possibly better languages support.
- Don't use enough feature to provide RFI.
- Nothing to add.
February 20, 2024
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
February 19, 2024
Hard to top!
- Help Guides
- Chat Support
- Marketing
- Tags
- In-app translations
- Pricing
- Workflows
February 12, 2024
Intercom helped us more to getting started
- Email Ticketing
- CRM
- Internal and External Knowledge base
- Customer Service Management
- Customer Support
- Placeholder
- CS portal
February 12, 2024
GREAT TOOL FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT BUT NOT CHEAP.
- CONVERSATION MANAGEMENT.
- BOT FLOW DESIGN.
- CRM
- CONTACT MANAGEMENT
- REPORTS
- PRODUCT TOURS
February 12, 2024
Intercom review
- Macros
- Data organization
- The possibility to work with other teammates in the same conversations
- snooze the conversations
- when I email a user, and I make a mistake, if I cancel the mail the user receives it anyway
- sometimes the information regarding the user is not reliable
- when I snooze a conversation and after a few days this conversation appears again on my inbox, should appear with a different look, so I can differentiate it from the others
February 12, 2024
Intercom a GEM across the Customer Support Software Sea
- Manage conversations with customers in a simply and accessible manner for both the CS team and the customer
- Great help center feature
- Macros are particularly helpful
- Workflows are still somehow hard to use at first. Especially find a meaningful way for the business to use them.
- FIN still has room for improvement, especially in the multilanguage accuracy.
- Proactive answers triggered by user behavior could be improved to include more behaviors
- Bulk exporting all the help center articles can be done only via API.
February 07, 2024
A Masterpiece.
- Easily balanced assigned to our team.
- Get efficiency on what articles we need.
- Please create a new conversation with our clients.
- We can see if they read our emails.
- The snooze option.
- SLA
- The notification for all tickets.
February 06, 2024
Intercom experience
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Possibility to leave inside notes on the emails
- Register clients/people
- Connection with inbox
- Not all of the emails arrive on the Intercom platform
- It is not very "user friendly"
- Not all the features are released in the European Union (like Finn)