Building a Help Center and Communicationg with Customers
April 16, 2024

Building a Help Center and Communicationg with Customers

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Intercom

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
  • Unfortunately this isn't my expertise
While the platform is quite usable for me, it genuinely took a significant amount of time for me to figure out how it worked. And even with that, I'm sure I am not taking advantage of all of its features and functionalities. It feels like there needs to be more video guides and tutorials on how to effectively use the platform, potentially organized by things such as job roles.
Our company has integrated Intercom with our Slack channel along with email as well, ensuring that we get notified of customer inquiries across multiple platforms so that we can reply in a convenient and timely manner. I do not know what other services Intercom connects to as setting up those connections is outside of my job role.
The only other platform of similar function we use is Guru. That we are using for our internal knowledge base. As to why we selected Intercom, I had no input into that decision. I believe we chose Intercom as our primary service due to its reasonable price and multitude of features.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Intercom go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Intercom again?

Yes

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.

Intercom Feature Ratings

Organize and prioritize service tickets
7
Expert directory
Not Rated
Subscription-based notifications
7
ITSM collaboration and documentation
Not Rated
Ticket creation and submission
7
Ticket response
8
External knowledge base
10
Internal knowledge base
Not Rated
Customer portal
9
IVR
Not Rated
Social integration
Not Rated
Email support
8
Help Desk CRM integration
8