Sometimes you don't want your entire team to have access to everything within Intercom— that's why we've made it easy to give certain members of your team access to certain data and features in Intercom.
You can edit the permissions of each teammate in the Settings > Workspace > Teammates section of your workspace.
Permissions explained
For each teammate you can choose different permissions depending on their needs in the workspace. Below are the available permissions, and what they allow you to do.
Section | Permission | Description |
Fin AI Copilot | Usage | Fin AI Copilot included usage allows each teammate to use Fin AI Copilot in up to 10 conversations or tickets per month. |
Conversation access | Conversation access | Restrict teammate’s access to conversations according to assignment. Learn more
Note: Conversations a teammate does not have access to will show as redacted, but a teammate will always be able to access conversations assigned directly to them. |
Settings | Can manage general and security settings | Without this, teammates cannot access some of the General settings, create Custom Objects and all of the Security settings.
This includes the following settings:
General settings
Security settings
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| Can manage teammates, seats and permissions | Without this, teammates cannot access the Teammates section in Workspace settings, including Roles and Activity logs.
This includes the following settings:
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| Can manage teams | Without this, teammates cannot access the Teams section in Help Desk settings. |
| Can change status | Without this, teammates cannot edit other teammate's away status |
| Can access Messenger settings | Without this, teammates cannot access the Messenger section in the Channels settings.
This includes the following settings:
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| Can access Billing settings | Without this, teammates cannot access the Billing section of a workspace and cannot delete a workspace.
This includes the following settings:
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| Can access Proactive Support settings | Without this, teammates cannot access Proactive Support settings.
This includes the following settings:
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| Can edit Default sender address | Without this, teammates cannot edit the default sender address within Email settings. |
Data and security | Can access workspace data | Without this, teammates cannot access Data settings, including:
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| Can access people, companies, and account lists | Without this, teammates cannot access workspace Contacts, restricting access to users, leads, companies, accounts, and conversations.
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| Can access lead and user profiles | Without this, teammates cannot access individual lead, user, or company profiles. They will either be blocked from moving off their current screen (Help Desk or Contacts) or redirected to their inbox if they arrive from a URL link. |
| Can export lead, user, company data | Without this, teammates cannot export people or company data from the Contacts List, they also cannot export most Reporting CSVs. |
| Can import contacts, companies and tickets | Without this, teammates cannot import new data via CSV from Contacts, or via Mixpanel or Mailchimp apps, or from Zendesk. |
| Can manage tags | Without this, teammates cannot create new tags via the Help Desk, or from Tags settings.
Note: They can still tag conversations. |
Apps and integrations | Can access developer hub | Without this, teammates cannot access Developer Hub in the workspace. |
| Can install, configure and delete apps | Without this, teammates can visit the app store but must request an app be installed from an admin in a dropdown list. |
Help Center Articles | Can create and update draft Help Center Articles | Without this, teammates can see Help Center Articles lists and views but cannot create or or save changes to any articles. |
| Can manage and publish Help Center Articles | Without this, teammates cannot manage, publish, or unpublish Help Center Articles, or manage Help Center settings and Collections. |
| Can manage saved views for Help Center Articles | Without this, teammates can see Help Center Articles lists and views but cannot create or modify existing views. |
Knowledge Hub | Can create and manage content in the Knowledge Hub | Without this, teammates can view content in the Knowledge Hub, but cannot create, import, or update content.
Note: Public articles are managed with the Help Center Articles permissions above. |
Automation | Can manage Automation settings and inbound Workflows | Without this, teammates cannot create, edit, delete, duplicate, set live, or pause inbound workflows, nor can they change automation settings. However, they can still tag existing workflows. |
| Can manage outbound Workflows | Without this, teammates cannot create, edit, delete, duplicate, set live, or pause outbound workflows. However, they can still tag existing workflows. |
Proactive Support | Can bulk message visitors, leads and users | Without this, teammates cannot set any content-type live from Proactive Support, but they can still reach out individually from Contacts.
Note: Setting any Outbound Workflows live also requires the "Can manage Outbound Workflows" permission. |
| Can publish News | Without this, teammates can create and edit News Items but they cannot set any items live. |
| Can send outbound emails from custom email addresses | Without this, teammates can neither create an email template in Proactive Support with a custom address sender, nor start a conversation via the Help Desk composer (Help Desk > New conversation) from a custom address. |
| Can export Proactive Support data | Without this, teammates cannot export audiences or content performance in Proactive Support. |
| Has to use default rules in new messages (only available in Custom Roles) | Without this, teammates can set any audience filters for any content type.
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| Can set Product Tours, Tooltips, and Checklists live | Without this, teammates cannot set a product tour live for end users.
They can still create and save product tours as drafts, and edit existing product tours. |
| Can set Surveys live | Without this, teammates cannot set a survey live.
They can still create and save surveys as drafts, and edit existing product tours. |
| Can manage Surveys data | Without this, teammates cannot view the Survey Responded stats, or the Survey Responses report, or export Survey data as a CSV. |
Help Desk | Can access real-time dashboard | Without this, teammates cannot access the Help Desk dashboard. |
| Can reassign conversations and edit lead or user ownership | Without this, teammates cannot reassign conversations from another teammates' inbox, or edit lead ownership via the sidebar or profile. |
| Can export conversation transcripts | Without this, teammates cannot export the conversation transcript from the Help Desk as a .txt file. |
| Can delete replies and notes from a conversation | Without this, teammates cannot delete a message/note from any conversation they can access. |
| Can manage shared macros | Without this, teammates can only create macros for their own use in Settings>Help Desk>Macros (Saved replies). |
| Can manage views | Without this, teammates can view existing Help Desk views but not create new views or edit existing ones. |
| Can manage rules | Without this, teammates cannot access the Settings> Help Desk > Rules |
| Can manage Balanced assignment and Workload management | Without this, teammates cannot access Workload management in Help Desk Assignments settings, nor select the Balanced assignment method when editing Teams settings.
Also controls the ability to edit the team reply time setting. |
| Can manage Round Robin assignment | Without this, teammates cannot select the Round Robin assignment method when editing Teams in settings. |
| Can manage auto away mode | Without this, teammates cannot access the Automatic away mode configuration in Help Desk settings. More info |
| Can manage teammate presence | Without this, teammates cannot access the Teammate presence configuration in Help Desk settings that controls whether the Help Desk displays any additional teammates are viewing a conversation at a given moment. |
| Can listen on calls | Without this, teammates cannot monitor live calls. |
Reports | Can access Reports | Without this, teammates cannot access workspace Reports. |
| Can share Reports | Without this, teammates cannot export conversation or ticket data from the Data export section in Reports.
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| Can export CSV | Without this, teammates cannot export conversation data from the Data export section in Reports.
Note: "Can access Reports" permission is required to access this feature. |
| Can access Chart drill-in | Without this, teammates cannot access drill-in data from Custom reports. |
| Can manage Workspace folders | Without this, teammates cannot control which folders and reports are visible in other teammates' individual workspaces. |
| Can view/edit/delete Custom reports | Without one of these, teammates have gradually increasing access to custom reports, ranging from; no access at all, view only access, view and edit existing reports and charts, or all of the above plus deletion permission. |
Note:
Teammates without any Proactive Support permissions will still be able to access Proactive Support in the workspace but won't be able to set content live.
In order to add apps to Messenger Home teammates need "Can manage workspace data and workload management" as well as "Can access Messenger settings".
How to edit permissions
Edit your own permissions
You cannot manage your own permissions or edit your own permissions access. This is a security measure to ensure every workspace has at least one teammate with admin permissions.
Edit permissions for another teammate
From Settings > Workspace > Teammates, simply click on the teammate's name you want to update, then select their individual permissions and click Save changes.
Edit permissions for multiple teammates in bulk
To edit the permissions for multiple teammates, hover over their profile picture and check the box that appears. Then click Edit permissions.
Now, choose the correct permissions for these teammates, just like you would for an individual teammate and save changes once you're done.
The teammates to whom these permissions will apply will be listed at the top of the page throughout this process, as shown in the screenshot below👇
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