Intercom is a customer service platform that redefines customer support by simplifying processes and execution for its clients. Intercom is designed to connect businesses with their customers through easy messaging and automation. Through technology, Intercom supports teams with the right tools that ensure better efficiency.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
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User Segmentations, Help Center, and engagement features
Pricing for reached users. It is too expensive for email marketing.
Help Center, Customer support via Live Chat and AI Chat Bots, User Onboarding
Speed of service, user interface, ease of use, ease of implementation. It's a joy to setup and even better to use. Great, great, great fan of the product.
Setting up conversation tags could be easier. And adding HTML to articles would be a nice feature.
Intercom solves the need to have seperate tools for your knowledge base, product tours, chat service, email inboxes.
Over the years, Intercom has become our primary tool to service our customers, mixing chat, email support, and now a brilliant AI. Their constant innovation feels like having a tech-savvy buddy in our corner, making customer service incredibly painless for our team. It's been an uncomplicated tool to train new users on, and just as easy to scale as our team has grown over the years. I also appreciate that their team is always a quick message away if we have questions about our plan or features.
My primary dislike would be the costs. While the basic features cover most needs, some of the more advanced capabilities and integrations will come with additional costs. As you start adding more advanced features to your contract, it's easy to begin to feel like you're being nickel and dimed.
I've been with my team for seven years now, and during that time I've watched Intercom grow from being one of a few support tools we use to becoming the only tool we use to support our customers. The seamless integration of chat and email support has streamlined our communication channels and enhanced our overall customer service experience. Consolidating our channels into Intercom has led to a notable increase in our team's efficiency.
I like that you can have messages sent to an email forwarded to intercom for easy ticket management. I love that you can write notes in the tickets and use gifs in the notes as well - this is great for having fun with the team while collaborating to resolve a ticket. The reports are intuitive to use. I love that you can create and mange articles for clients through intercom. The automatic tagging features are fantastic. I like that everyone sees the tickets - easy to collaborate. Over all a very intuitive program for a customer success team who handles incoming tickets.
I would like the option to have a longer notification sound. Notifications can be delayed. I don't like that the ( <3 ) heart was removed/moved - this was a quick way to view your positive comments from clients. I don't like that the intercom mobile app does not have all the same important features as on desktop - such as I can not post pictures/gifs to notes when on mobile and I can not add a subject to the chat. I have to return to desktop to complete this.
Intercom provides a fully open ticket managing system that allows for easy collaboration by having all team members be able to see all chats at once.
The ease of adaptability, the new feaures like AI interegation, easy to interact with costumers and also provide support. Have been using intercom for 1 year now and the exprience has been amzing so far and with new features coming up it is the best.
No private buckets, this feature needs to be added.
The easy of customers reaching out to support and also the ease of segerating the type of chats based on their importance is the best and help a lot to prioritise tasks.
Intercom is very easy to use and it helps a lot that you can change a sentence to more friendly, and the person who reads your messege will have a better experience interacting with you.
At first it´s a little confusing but once you have the hand of it is very easy
Menu requierments, and helping upload information to their websites.
What I like best about intercom is that you can customize and make your own makro for the convenenience of creating an email response. This helps us a lot in terms of sending responses.
What I dislike about Intercom is that you need to regularly check if there was already a response made one you sent an email. I would like also for more customizable signature.
Intercom is helping us by sending an alert once a chat or an email response was received. This will greatly help us reply in a timely manner for our customer service.
I love the bot reply and the saved messages. I also love that i can assign messages to coworkers very easily. If a coworker needs assistance with a message i can easily access their inbox and help them rather than going back and forth. I enjoy the round robin because no one gets flooded with messages.
The only downside is sometimes the auto replies are incorrect.
No more emails, and more organization. No losing messages in inbox.
Nice UI. Probably the easiest platform to get started on. Their support is better than most every other company anywhere. Lots of options for gathering feedback from users to create better landing pages. Design of the support center they provide is really nice and really easy for anyone to use. Details on articles, like what users searched for and didn't find an article are useful for improving content so customers can self service instead of contacting us.
Intercom won't base a profile on a persons email address so its difficult to see any past correspondence from the same person. A person that emails you and then enters their email on the chat won't be grouped as the same person, this shows up as two separate people. Intercom also bills for the number of people who contact you. There's been some bugs but they do seem good at fixing them.
customer support
There is an AI feature that is very useful when responding to the customers especially we are in a Business field.
This looks like a chat from the customer and immediate response is expected from the customer service.
This is the platform we utilize to engage in communication with our customers regarding their database or product concerns.
The things I appreciate the most about Intercom are its ease of use, ease of integration, frequency use, ease of implementation, and the unique features it offers compared to its competitors.
None so far, but sometimes our Boss said that the customer support are not that speedy, but still they help us bigtime.
Ofcourse, they help us bigtime when there's a query from our customers. When fixing the bots and etc.
Macros are extremely useful because they are programmed to provide what the client requires rather than just a response.
closing conversation as duplicate content will send out surveys
resolves real state inquiries. AI benefits me because I can answer every issues in a timely manner
Intercom simplifies customer support with intuitive ticketing, powerful automations, seamless self-service, and much more – all at a low cost.
Artificial intelligence should be improved.
It connects customers and leads to business.
I have a few things: - The UI - The ease of use - Integration with Zendesk and Survey tools - Being able to manage my team - the AI, Fin - Free tools for startups
I had some challenges creating a webhook, it took me watching multiple videos to get it right.
Our entire customer support is provided by Intercom. Which makes communicaion easier to manage and unified for all team mates.
It saves my unfinished messaged and does not clear anything without clearing
Beeping sound on messages that are not for me
I really do not have problems to be resolved at the momemnt
The automation options are so helpgul within Intercom. We have a small team and being able to automate some support is great! I also like the no-code setup.
The only challenge for me with Intercom is the lack of intergration with Google Drive for editing and publishing articles.
It is solving a knowledge base, ai chatbot support, automated support and onboarding which frees my time to do other valuable work.
Intercom is extremely intuitive and makes chat support a breeze. It's easy to search and navigate, and has features that make using it both fun and extremely efficient!
There's not much I don't like about Intercom, but I do wish there was a more direct way to get to the reports page that shows my reviews from customers.
Intercom helps our customers find the answers they're looking for before routing them to a human, and it's often effective! When our bot can't help our users, the macro feature makes it easy to walk our users through their problems!
The integration of AI into our product over the past year has been incredibly valuable, enhancing our customer support capabilities tremendously. Additionally, the Series tool's functionality for building adaptive engagement workflows has proven critical for improving our onboarding processes and nurturing relationships with customers. The AI-powered features have augmented our team's efforts, while the workflows enabled by Series have allowed us to engage users in a more strategic, impactful manner. Together, these technology innovations have become integral components of our customer engagement strategy. Their addition to our platform has yielded measurable improvements in customer satisfaction, retention and success. In summary, the AI and workflow automation tools added to our product have been game-changing advances that empowered our team and drove major gains for customers. They have delivered impressive results and become indispensable solutions.
While keeping innovative capabilities like customized analytics behind a paywall makes business sense, some complementary access for early adopters and tech influencers could go a long way in building engagement. Even time-limited demos would allow these potential ambassadors to grasp the add-ons' capabilities and their untapped potential more fully. Their organic advocacy could then help drive broader paid adoption.
1) Intercom’s ability to centralize customer data by integrating with our own API is invaluable. Having a unified platform that brings together user information from all our systems enables my team to access the full context while engaging customers, rather than piecing together data from disparate sources. Seeing comprehensive profiles during live chats eliminates friction and enables us to deliver personalized, informed support. Intercom has become the hub of our customer data infrastructure. By consolidating user information from our proprietary systems and external tools, their platform provides my team an efficient centralized workspace. This single pane of glass gives a holistic view of each customer for frictionless, tailored conversations. 2) Intercom's conversational interface and workflows make communicating with customers easy and natural. Crafting engaging outbound messages and campaigns is straightforward and intuitive in their visual builder. The UX around managing conversations—from automated triggers to live chat—is smooth and simple for both customers and agents. My team can create multi-channel customer journeys with minimal effort thanks to Intercom's seamless workflows and responsive canvas. The platform handles the complexity behind the scenes while providing an elegant and efficient front-end experience. Our productivity and effectiveness have grown tremendously thanks to the user-centric design. 3) Leveraging Intercom’s integrations has been a huge win. Tying into tools we already use amplifies its value. The ability to manage conversations directly in Slack without switching contexts is a lifesaver. Using Linear alongside Intercom to track progress on customer requests is invaluable. The breadth of integrations with complementary tools has extended Intercom’s capabilities for us. Being able to incorporate solutions like Slack and Linear which are core parts of our stack makes Intercom more than a standalone application. Its extensibility and open API enable it to tie into our existing workflows rather than force us to adapt to it.
I like how it is constantly evolving and refreshing their approach towards handling customer communication. Since I started using Intercom in 2021, it has evolved itself for the better.
Some of the addons that I can use (customised analytics for example) is behind an add-on, which is understandable, but I would have loved to play around with them.
1) Creating one place for customer and user data ; the fact that I can connect (or my team) our API with Intercom API to see all User Data while chatting with the customer is a huge plus. 2) The UX process replying to customers / sending different outbound messages is a breeze. We have pushed many succesful marketing and customer success campaigns with Intercom. 3) I like that it has many integrations with many products, using Slack & Linear with Intercom has saved our lives.
I like the most about intercom is the short cut key wherein you can easily reply and compose a message to the customer, especially the AI assistance to get an idea how you delivered your message into positive scritping.
I dislike about intercom is just that sometimes, it keeps loading and logging when having interaction with the customer and sometimes there are some delay and when receiving a message.
The problem I encoutered in intercom application is the manually typing the sentence you trying to compose. However, this concern has been resolved due to having AI assistance to wherein you can rephase your sentence into positive scripting.