📆⚡️Our Get a Demo and Google Calendar apps enable leads to book demos and meetings right in the Messenger, so that you can focus on selling, not scheduling. With the latest improvements, you can further tailor both apps to your specific workflows.

Get a Demo App Updates

• Link directly to your calendar – on any online scheduling tool – so that VIP leads can book time with you right away.
• Customize and preview the text your leads will see when booking a demo through the app.

Google Calendar App Updates

• Define the duration of the meetings that leads can book through the Messenger.
• Copy your personalized and customizable public calendar link, so you can easily share your calendar outside of the Messenger, too.

Other scheduling updatesIn addition to using the Get a Demo and Google Calendar apps, you can now add your calendar to your Messenger profile and make it easy for VIP leads and customers to book meetings with you at any time. Simply input your calendar url into your Intercom public profile.

Learn more about the Get a Demo and Google Calendar apps in our docs, or install them from the Intercom App Store.

You can now combine the engagement and personality of video with the automation of Custom Bots. Best of all, when paired with our library of apps, it's easier than ever to drive more conversions like webinar sign-ups, newsletter subscriptions, booking meetings and tons more.

To send a Video Bot, create a new Custom Bot and click the video icon shown below:

Instantly resolve 29% of your customers’ most common questions. Answer Bot automates answers to your frequently asked questions for more efficient support and sales teams and more satisfied customers. See what Answer Bot will do for you:

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Get started with Answer Bot here, or learn more here.

You can now track any action visitors take on your website - things like clicking specific CTAs, visiting certain pages, downloading content and more. This can give you better context when a visitor starts a chat with you, allowing you to see what actions they've taken on your site, and also allows you to send more targeted messages based on those actions. Learn more about tracking visitor attributes and events here.

Now you can customize what info you see about the leads and users you chat with in the Inbox, including the order it appears in. This lets you view information that matters most to you, first, so you can send personal replies even faster. With this update you can:

• Set what attributes you see alongside every conversation, or hide anything that clutters your view
• Reorder the sections of the conversation profile – the right hand column of Inbox – to match your workflow

Any changes that you make will be only visible to you. To customize your view now, go here.

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Collect and store lead qualification data while simultaneously branching (or routing) leads down the best path for their needs. Saving responses from these Custom Bot flows, such as vertical or target market, equips your sales and marketing teams with valuable context to improve future conversations or nurture programs.

🎨🤖Now you can customize Operator’s bot identity to reflect your company’s unique brand, providing a consistent brand experience for your customers. Simply enter a name and a picture or fresh color scheme to make it feel like part of your company!

For more information, read this article.

You can now customize the messenger and email to further match your brand and increase security for your team:

• Match the brand of your business by removing the ability for visitors and customers to view, search, and add gifs in the Messenger
• Prevent your team from receiving potentially malicious content and sensitive data by blocking attachments in the Messenger and in emails

These additional customization and security options are available on our new Premium plans. You can compare all plans on our pricing page here.

Now you can easily see performance of different sales teams and teammates. See opportunities, pipeline and revenue generated. See how many meetings teams have booked, their response times and a leaderboard for largest deals closed.

Sales Team Performance Reports are powered by our Salesforce app and available on our new Inbox Premium plan. To learn more, check out this doc.

Control group testing withholds your message from half the audience, so you can measure the difference in behavior between the control group and those who receive the message. It’s a powerful, data-driven way to validate message performance, set benchmarks, and eliminate low-impact messages. Control groups are available on our Messages Premium plan.

Learn more about using control groups in our help docs.