Support that works beyond just the chat
June 21, 2022

Support that works beyond just the chat

Jonathan Yarbor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Intercom

Providing support for your customers involves a lot of thinking from their perspective. If you compare the customer experience from a Chick-Fil-A to that of KFC for example, you'll find that Chick-Fil-A spent more time feeling the customer's pain points in how they order and consume their food. Weird analogies aside, that's what Intercom does to earn a multi-thousand dollar a month bill and have us pretty happy to do so. From providing easy gifs and other normal chat functions in 2022 to being one of the few accessible chat widgets for folks who are vision impaired, or being one of the few chat widgets that are optimized for the web to not impact your SEO. Further, the extensibility of Intercom makes it more useful for marketing, customer messaging, and deep support problems where you may have to dig into the issue your customers are facing. Intercom helps you prioritize and celebrate the support experience and that is what makes it a significantly better product than most others.
  • Accessibility & A11y Compatability
  • Support Chat
  • Outbound Marketing
  • Extensible API
  • Dark Mode
  • Improve functionality for B2C users
  • Cost less
  • Accessability
  • Fast & Reliable
  • Live Chat
  • Cost
  • Time to Implement
  • Limited API
  • LiveChat and Drift
Intercom beats LiveChat and Drift by how it supports your team beyond just the chat functionality. All of these products are reliable and work fine, but Intercom takes it another step with Lightweight Javascript to not impact SEO A11y accessibility Improved Design on mobile Marketing Flow to re-engage users better support agent tooling

Do you think Intercom delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Intercom's feature set?

Yes

Did Intercom live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Intercom go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Intercom again?

Yes

There is no better choice than Intercom for a B2B business. It's designed to help sales activity first, with support a near second, and marketing last. Just be careful that bill is going to grow! For B2C businesses you can get a lot from Intercom, however many of its features will make impatient consumers frustrated if you don't work around the problems.