New at Intercom
Outbound Messaging

Take advantage of increased design capabilities with our new email editor updates.

Nicole avatar
Shared by Nicole • January 31, 2022

Introducing our latest email editor enhancements that give you the flexibility to easily design emails that match your brand. New features include:

  • Match the look and feel of your brand with increased design customization options:
  • Personalize your communications even more by easily accessing email templates.
  • Speed up your design process by setting 3 new styling rules for your entire email with a click of a button:
Security & Settings
Product Tours

Keep your contact data secure with five new permissions 🔐

Ashley avatar
Shared by Ashley • January 28, 2022

Starting today we’re introducing five new permissions to keep your sensitive contact data secure👏! First, in Teammates Settings you can now control which teammates access the “Contacts” section of Intercom and export specific contact reports and data. There are four new permissions to help you do this: 1) Can access people, companies and account lists 2) Can access lead and user profile pages 3) Can export Outbound data and 4) Can export CSV. We are also introducing a new permission to control which teammates can set a Product Tour live.

To learn more visit our help center!

Bots

Preview Answers before setting them live in Resolution Bot

LeighAnne avatar
Shared by LeighAnne • January 27, 2022

With previews of Answers in Resolution Bot you can now ensure that you have crafted your Answers correctly and view the end user's experience. This allows you to confirm that everything is set up properly and working as intended.

Messenger
Articles

Increase your articles’ visibility and help customers self-serve with Article Suggestions on the Home Screen

Priyanka avatar
Shared by Priyanka • January 20, 2022

We have enhanced the Messenger even further by introducing Article Suggestions which can help boost your articles view rate by up to 135%.

Articles can play a crucial role in increasing customer self-serve rates and reducing inbound conversations especially for repetitive inquiries. Here is how you can maximize the value of your articles:

  1. Ensure your help center is switched on for customers to browse articles
  2. Provide customers the flexibility to search and browse for Articles directly within the Messenger
  3. Take it a step further with Article Suggestions - Simplify customers’ search for help by providing suggestions to articles even before they start searching.

How do Article Suggestions Work?

  • Your customers will see the top 3 suggested articles based on highest viewership in the last 7 days.
  • Suggested articles will be tailored for visitors and users.
  • You can also exclude certain articles from appearing in the suggested articles list.

With Article Suggestions, increase your articles view rate, guide customers to self-serve and reduce inbound conversations so that you and your team can focus on the more critical issues and VIP customers.

To learn more, visit the Help Center.

Reporting

Custom reports are now more powerful with company data attributes 📊

Sonia avatar
Shared by Sonia • January 12, 2022

Now you can filter by company data attributes in your custom reports and charts for more powerful reporting.

To learn more, visit our help center.

Bots

Dismiss unanswered questions in Resolution Bot

LeighAnne avatar
Shared by LeighAnne • December 20, 2021

In Resolution Bot you can now dismiss unanswered questions. Remove questions that are unnecessary or unable to be answered by a bot to help you cut through the noise and keep your Unanswered Questions page relevant and useful.

To learn more, visit our help center.

Apps & API

Automatically create Salesforce cases from conversations in Intercom 🚀

Mark avatar
Shared by Mark • December 15, 2021

Keep your support team operating efficiently by automatically creating or updating Salesforce cases from your Intercom conversations! 🙌

Use Intercom rules, actions, and triggers to create an almost endless number of powerful workflows to automate how your cases are created or updated. This includes:

  • Custom Bot and Resolution Bot actions
  • Inbox automation rules
  • The Conversation Closed / Open global triggers

This new update also lets you:

  • Set a default Case Record Type, allowing you to control what Case Record Type to use when automatically creating a case.
  • Use new mapping options to customize what attributes are automatically sent from conversations in Intercom to cases in Salesforce.
  • Review failed sync attempts in the Sync Errors Tab area of the app settings panel to gain greater transparency on the status of your integration and better context to triage potential issues.

Here is a link to our help document that explains how to implement automatic case creation.

Security & Settings

Introducing European Data Hosting

Ashley avatar
Shared by Ashley • December 09, 2021

We now offer European data hosting – allowing your most important data to remain entirely in Europe! This includes:

- All Visitor and Contact data collected by the Messenger for a workspace

- All the Conversation data that happens via the Messenger for a workspace

- All the data attributes or events a customer collects on their workspace

European data hosting is only available to European customers by creating a new workspace. At this time it is not possible to convert a US workspace to EU data hosting. Starting in Q1, we will be offering migration tools to help our customers who wish to move to EU data hosting.

Read more about EU data hosting and how our engineering team managed this infrastructure project on our blog

Security & Settings

Improve your teammate management with two new features

Ashley avatar
Shared by Ashley • December 07, 2021

Our two latest teammate management features help you better manage your teammates. From the Teammates page you can now export a CSV of all your teammates. Additionally, the new SCIM API allows for automated teammate provisioning.

To get started, visit our help center.

Inbox

Monitor your support volume and team capacity in real time 📊👀

Mary avatar
Shared by Mary • December 07, 2021

The real-time dashboard in the Inbox helps you better manage your day-to-day support operations so you can lead high-performing, productive teams. Monitor your current support volume, key KPIs like wait time, and team capacity so you can make adjustments in real time and allocate resources effectively.

To learn more, visit our help center.