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Ukrainian Language Support

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Shared by Nicole • March 28, 2022

We have added Ukrainian as a supported end-user language for all customers. This includes support across customer-facing experiences provided by Messenger, Articles, and Resolution Bot, making it easier for businesses and organizations to communicate with people in Ukraine.

Outbound Messaging

Elevate your designs with multicolumn email layouts

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Shared by Nicole • March 25, 2022

You can now enjoy the increased flexibility and simplicity of designing emails with our new multi-column email layouts and editor improvements.

  • Design emails faster and with ease by inserting multicolumn layouts directly into your email via our editor - edit these layouts to best suit your needs.
  • Preview how your email will look on web and mobile directly in the email editor.
  • We’ve added an undo/redo button in the email editor as well.
Outbound Messaging
Mobile

Meet Intercom Surveys - don’t just ask customers opinions, act on them.

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Shared by Nicole • March 23, 2022

From nurture campaigns to onboarding experiences—and much more—Surveys helps you capture and automatically act on valuable customer insights.

Here’s why you will love Intercom Surveys:

  • Increased Response Rate: Reach your customers in the moment by sending surveys on web and mobile*
  • Enrich Customer Data: Save your customers’ responses to survey questions as user attributes in Intercom - use this data to trigger campaigns, provide customer-facing teams with additional information, and more
  • Drive Engagement: Use Series and Surveys to create personalized workflows to drive action based on customers’ unique needs and preferences
  • Strong Targeting: Leverage your existing customer data in Intercom to ensure you’re targeting the right customers
  • Simple and Customizable: It’s quick and easy to create surveys that match the look and feel of your brand
  • Detailed Reporting: Analyze survey results right on our platform or export your survey results via CSV

Check out Surveys, or visit our help center to learn more.

*In order to use mobile surveys, ensure you are on a minimum SDK version of 12.0.0 for Android & iOS.

Mobile
Messenger

Ditch long hold times and give customers the choice to move to the Messenger with Switch 📞 ➡️ 💬

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Shared by Priyanka • March 23, 2022

With Switch, it’s not just possible, but easy to move inbound call volume to messaging — built to handle support at any scale, and reduce wait times for your customers.

Why Switch?

  • It’s fast: Customers want answers fast, and using Switch means they don’t have to wait on hold—they can just seamlessly switch to messaging for quick answers
  • It’s easy: Your customers can simply select the option to switch when they call
  • It’s cost-effective: Moving calls to messaging is more cost-effective and more efficient for your team, so you can scale support without hiring more people
  • It’s personal: You can provide a personalized experience when they reach the Messenger
  • It works right away: Switch works with any phone provider, and is completely code-free

To learn more, visit our help center, or check out Switch in Settings.

Articles

Tag Articles for easier content management

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Shared by LeighAnne • March 07, 2022

Apply tags to Articles to help organize your content. New Article filters for tags also make finding Articles a breeze. With tags you can better manage your Articles content as you scale.

Inbox
Messenger

Prevent duplicating your team’s efforts with continuous conversations 🔁

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Shared by Mary • February 28, 2022

A new feature in messenger settings will prevent your customers from starting a new conversation if they already have one open. This change makes conversations more of a continuous thread, preventing customers from reaching out to your team multiple times, which saves your team time and effort. This feature is available on web and mobile.

Articles

Save a draft version of an Article and view past versions

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Shared by LeighAnne • February 23, 2022

With our latest release to Articles, you can now save a draft version of a published article and view past versions of an Article. With drafts of a published article, you can make necessary updates and share them for review without needing to unpublish an Article. You can also view previous versions of an Article, who made the update, and when the update was made to help with internal change management.

To learn more, visit the Help Center.

Bots

Create paths in bots based on conditions

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Shared by LeighAnne • February 15, 2022

In Resolution Bot and Custom Bot you can now create paths based on conditions in addition to quick reply buttons. Conditional paths allow you to create more efficient bots, rather than creating multiple yet similar bots with different targeting. Your customers are also able to receive an answer faster, without needing to complete validation paths prior to being served an answer.

Reporting

Export and analyze your messaging data with our updated outbound messaging CSV reports

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Shared by Sonia • February 15, 2022

We’re making it easier for you to uncover valuable insights about how your messages are performing. You can now choose from two Customer Engagement CSV reports:

  • Detailed Stats: CSV report provides a detailed breakdown of all the users that received your messages
  • Message Overview: CSV report that provides an overall aggregate stats view of a workspace’s outbound message along with auditing data

*The previous Customer Engagement CSV report is now called “Detailed Stats” CSV report. The additional field, ‘first_event’, was added to the receipts.csv file to allow customers to easily aggregate messaging data and metrics using the export.

See your Customer Engagement report here.

Apps & API

Seamlessly integrate with Intercom using our updated Node SDK, API, and more 🛠

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Shared by Mark • February 09, 2022

We just updated our Node SDK, released a new version of our API, and streamlined our technical documentation to make integrating with Intercom easier than ever.

We updated our Node SDK 🙌

We released several improvements - including coverage for our latest API - to make integrating with Intercom more developer-friendly. In addition to covering all the new endpoints in API v2.4, the new Node SDK v3.1.0 includes:

  • New TypeScript type definitions and additional abstractions
  • More modern patterns including Promises, Async, and Await
  • Updates to legacy dependencies

Check out our migration guide to jumpstart your upgrade.

Version 2.4 of our API is live ⚙️

We made a number of improvements to our API, including:

  • A new endpoint to update a company
  • New fields for the Contact Model
  • Improved conversation search
  • A fix for source.author.type field in case of auto message from a team

Our technical documentation got an upgrade 📚

We updated the appearance of Intercom’s public documentation to make it easier to navigate and find the information you need.

This is just the start of a number of releases we have planned to make building on and integrating with Intercom easier, faster, and more secure. If you want to learn more about recent updates to our platform, and get a sneak peek at upcoming releases, register for our upcoming Developer webinar!