New at Intercom
Inbox

Make it easier and faster for your team to categorize content by archiving unneeded tags

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Shared by Mary • November 26, 2019

You can now archive irrelevant tags so that they can no longer be applied to new conversations or users. Archiving the tag does not delete the data – it simply hides it from your list of tags. This means you can still use the tag to filter any messages, conversations or users. You can also access any reporting for the archived tag.

To learn more about managing your tags, check out our help article.

Bots
Reporting

See how changes made to Custom Bots affects performance 🤖📈

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Shared by LeighAnne • November 25, 2019

You can now see how any changes you’ve made to your Custom Bots impacts performance. Just navigate to the Path Analysis tab within any live Custom Bot and select the version you want to view. From there, you can see how changes you’ve made have impacted engagement and completion at each step of the bot. To learn more, check out this article.

Note:

  • We only show data as of October 2nd, 2019
  • Any changes that you save will result in a new version of the bot (e.g. changes to titles, audiences, wording, etc.)
Reporting

Read and download conversations right from their reports

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Shared by Sonia • November 19, 2019

You can now read and download relevant conversations right from the conversation tags report with the new inbox report drill-down for conversation tags. Any filters you’ve added to your report will automatically be matched in these drill-downs.

For more information, visit this article.

Security & Settings

Save time managing teammates & set more granular permissions 👥☑️

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Shared by Ashley • November 11, 2019

We’ve improved Settings to make it easier to manage teammates and their permissions. Now, you can:

– Invite multiple teammates at once.

– Bulk edit teammate permissions.

We’ve also created more granular permissions to give you greater control. The permission ‘Can Manage All Settings including Billing’ has been split into three distinct permissions:

– Access Product Settings

– Access Workspace Settings

– Access Billing

Bots
Reporting

Optimize your Custom Bots with new Path Analysis insights 🤖📈

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Shared by LeighAnne • November 06, 2019

You can now see how people are flowing through your Custom Bots and where they’re dropping off to better understand performance. Use these new insights to make optimizations to further drive engagement. Just navigate to any live Custom Bot and click on the new Path Analysis tab. To learn more, check out this article.

Note:

  • We only show data as of October 2nd, 2019
  • If you save any edits to a live bot, the data will be refreshed
  • Path Analysis stats are not real-time and unlike summary metrics (Sent, Engaged, and Completed), update over several minutes

We’re launching this alongside small improvements to our custom bot builder experience, making it easier to create more complex bots with numerous paths.

Bots
Outbound Messaging
Product Tours

New home for outbound messages and improvements to message creation and organization ✉️🗄

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Shared by LeighAnne • November 04, 2019

We’ve made several improvements to make message creation and organization more intuitive and consolidate Intercom's outbound channels. Check them out here.

Below is a quick overview of what's new. See our new docs page for full details.

- The “Messages” area of Intercom has been renamed to “Outbound” - Product Tours now live inside Outbound - Auto and Manual Messages are now called Ongoing and One-off Messages - To create what was previously called a Visitor Auto Message, now simply create an in-app message and set the targeting to visitors - Message folders have been replaced with tags - You can now filter your message list by people type, message state, sender or tag - Operator and Reporting have moved up ⬆️ alongside Inbox, Outbound, Articles and Platform - There are new email and in-app message templates to help you get started when creating a message

Note: for some customers, these changes may have been in place already, this notice is for the majority of our customers that are experiencing these changes for the first time today 😎

Customer Data Platform
Inbox
Apps & API

HubSpot app improvements: New Inbox app, better lead attribution and data syncing

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Shared by Mark • October 30, 2019

We've made several improvements to our HubSpot app, now you can:

- More accurately score and prioritize each lead by sending all qualification data you capture in Intercom to HubSpot

- Get more context for each conversation by seeing lead data from HubSpot including email, company, stage, and owner right in the Intercom Inbox

- Keep lead ownership in sync by automatically setting owners in HubSpot as they are in Intercom (note: we won’t overwrite existing owners if they are set in HubSpot)

- Improve lead attribution by saving HubSpot cookie data for new leads captured in Intercom. This allows you to keep your original lead sources (direct traffic, paid ads, etc.) and instead capture Intercom as the conversion point for these leads (bonus: you can then view all leads converted by Intercom and from which sources in HubSpot)

To enable these features with your existing HubSpot integration, head here. To learn more about the app or install it, visit the Intercom App Store and our updated documentation.

Inbox
Messenger

Better understand your team’s performance by preventing closed conversations from being reopened

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Shared by Mary • October 28, 2019

With our new Messenger setting, you can prevent customers from re-opening conversations that your team has previously closed. For visitors and users, you can also define how long a conversation must have been closed before it can longer be replied to.

If you enable this setting, customers can still see their closed conversations in the Messenger. However, instead of being able to reply directly, they will be encouraged to initiate a new conversation.

To learn more about this feature, see our help article.

Inbox

Search your inbox more easily using email addresses

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Shared by Mary • October 25, 2019

You can now search for conversations by email address, which will pull up all conversations you’ve had with that user.

If you’re looking to find conversations that mention an email address, you can search for an email addresses as a keyword by putting it in quotation marks.

For more information, visit this article.

Bots
Inbox

3 updates to make tagging conversations more accurate and easier to manage

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Shared by LeighAnne • October 11, 2019

Starting today, it’s easier to draw better insights from your conversations through 3 new tagging updates, so you can improve your product and business.

The tags settings page is now the central location for you to view and manage your tags. This includes the ability to see how many times tags have been used.

We’re also introducing new rules to automatically tag new conversations. Tag rules reduces the manual effort required from your team while ensuring that your tag report are more accurate.

Finally, we are extending tagging to Custom Bots so that you can understand the content of those conversations. Now when you build a bot, you can automatically tag specific conversations as they’re triaged by your Custom Bot.

For more information, visit this article.