New at Intercom
Bots

Configure how a one-time Resolution Bot handles inactive customers

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Shared by LeighAnne • August 04, 2021

Now you can configure a one-time Resolution Bot to automatically close a conversation or route it to a teammate when a customer is inactive for 3 minutes, for a more consistent experience across one-time and looping mode.

To learn more, visit the Help Center.

Apps & API

Boost productivity in the Inbox and securely surface Intercom data wherever you are — Q2 App Roundup 🚀

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Shared by Mark • July 29, 2021

Here are some of the newest apps in our app store. 🎉

Boost productivity when working in the Inbox 💪

Dialpad - Instantly launch AI-powered voice calls directly from Intercom’s business messenger, empowering your support and sales teams to increase customer engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty.

Probe - Display vital customer information like - LTV and MRR - right inside the Intercom Inbox to gain context and make better decisions.

Vidbix - Let your users record their screens when they start a conversation to give your team more context to triage and resolve support issues faster.

Linear - Quickly create new - or link to existing - Linear issues from the Intercom Inbox, making it easier to resolve problems and respond to customers.

Salesforce - You can now sync company and account data between Intercom and Salesforce, providing more context in the Inbox and unlocking more ways to use Salesforce data in Intercom.

Surface Intercom data wherever you are 📈

Workspace Automation - Create and view your Intercom contact details from inside your Google Workspace account.

Glances - Securely and proactively surface your Intercom data wherever you are - from Slack to your web browser - so you can focus on getting things done and not on finding information.

KPIBees - Pull data from Intercom and other tools, APIs, and databases into Google Sheets to analyze and build beautiful KPI dashboards.

Check out the Intercom App Store!

Apps improve your customers' experience and team's efficiency — enabling actions in the Messenger and the Inbox, keeping data in-sync across your tech stack, and triggering workflows in other tools.

Explore these and the 300+ other apps available in the Intercom App Store! Is there an app or integration you'd like to see built? Let us know! 🍻

Inbox
Customer Data Platform
Security & Settings

Categorize conversations consistently with required conversation data attributes and more

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Shared by Mary • July 27, 2021

Now you can ensure your team consistently categorizes conversations they have with your customers by making certain conversation data attributes required to fill in before closing a conversation. Capturing key information at the end of a conversation improves reporting while keeping workflows streamlined.

Additionally, you can now reorder conversation data attributes, and make some attributes only visible to certain teams. To learn more, visit our help center.

Apps & API

Sync company and account data between Intercom and Salesforce to improve efficiency, personalize campaigns, and more 🚀

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Shared by Mark • July 22, 2021

We recently made it easier to sync people attributes between Intercom and Salesforce and gave you even more control over your integration through mapping controls and usage limits.

With this update, you can sync company and account data between Intercom and Salesforce, ensuring both systems are always up to date and unlocking more ways to use your Salesforce data in Intercom 🙌

✅ Gain better context and increase team efficiency

See account data and company-specific details from Salesforce within Intercom, giving you even more context during customer conversations and removing the need to manually switch tabs.

🎯 Improve your proactive support and customer engagement campaigns

Your Salesforce data is updated in real-time, meaning you can use those attributes in your existing campaigns and automations in Intercom - from targeting specific types of customers with Resolution Bot to segmenting users for an onboarding campaign in Series.

🔄 Keep all your CRM data in sync

Sync attributes from Intercom to Salesforce or from Salesforce to Intercom to ensure all your customer data stays up to date.

If you're using the Salesforce app, you can configure your settings here. To learn more about the changes, visit our help center.

Reporting
Outbound Messaging

New customer engagement report: more flexible filtering, more data, and better exporting

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Shared by Sonia • July 19, 2021

We’ve made changes to our Customer Engagement report to bring more valuable insights to your organization. Updates include:

  • Filter by custom date ranges
  • See the performance of all your messages sent with Intercom - including chats & posts, email, banners, mobile carousels, push, product tours, and custom bots
  • A new CVS export format to provide you with even more data

To learn more, check out this article.

Outbound Messaging

See what changes have been made to your Series with our new Series changelog

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Shared by Nicole • July 16, 2021

You can now see what changes have been made to a Series, including what was changed, when it was changed, and who changed it.

Within a Series, simply click “Last edited” or “Changelog” under “More”, and the change history will display in the changelog panel.

Reporting

Run more advanced conversation analysis: conversation data attributes now available in conversation data exports

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Shared by Sonia • July 14, 2021

You can now run even more advanced conversation analysis by including conversation data attributes in conversation data exports.

To include this data in your exports, visit the conversation export page, expand the conversation information, check/uncheck the conversation data attributes field, and export.

To learn more, check out this article.

Bots

Improve Resolution Bot’s performance with a new report

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Shared by LeighAnne • July 13, 2021

Now you can see conversations where Resolution Bot couldn't give an answer when in looping mode. This additional data can help you improve the bot's performance by creating more answers or updating ones that are not resolving customer questions completely.

To learn more, visit our help center.

Inbox

Easily contact customers and external partners from your Inbox to resolve complex issues faster 📤

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Shared by Mary • June 29, 2021

Now you can start an outbound support conversation right from your Inbox. This lets you resolve complex issues more efficiently when you need additional input from customers or external partners.

You can also now use macros when starting new conversations. Visit our help center to learn more.

Mobile

Is your mobile app built on React Native? We got you!📱

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Shared by Priyanka • June 24, 2021

Introducing Intercom’s React Native wrapper.

With our new wrapper for mobile apps built on React Native, all the latest features of our mobile SDKs are available to you in your app; the business Messenger, our newly upgraded Help Center, outbound messaging, push notifications, and more.

The React Native wrapper is regularly updated with new features and improvements, giving your customers the best experience and giving you peace of mind.

To get started, install the latest version of the React Native wrapper.