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Outbound Messaging

Collaborate with teammates, or leave notes for yourself, directly in Series

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Shared by Nicole • January 25, 2021

Introducing Notes in Series. You can now leave notes for yourself, or collaborate with teammates, directly within Series. Simply drag in a note from the right-hand toolbar and type your note.

Articles

Articles are now more flexible and easier to use with these anchor links, tables, alt text, and dividers

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Shared by LeighAnne • January 20, 2021

We've introduced a number of new features to make Articles more flexible and easy to use for you and your customers. Here's a snapshot of all the new features you and your team now have access to:

1. With anchor links, you can now add links to multiple sections of articles in your Help Center, making it easier to direct customers to specific information.

2. With tables, you now have more flexibility with formatting your Articles to easily breakdown more complex information.

3. Now you can add alt text to images in Articles, which allows screen readers to have more access to help content. This change will make your content WCAG compliant.

4. Separate different sections of your articles by inserting a horizontal divider.

For more information, visit our help docs on tables, alt image text, dividers, and anchor links.

Product Tours

Link directly to headings within help articles!

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Shared by Nicole • January 14, 2021

With anchor links, you can now add links to multiple sections of articles in your Help Center, making it easier to direct customers to specific information.

Simply copy the anchor link while you’re in the editor and paste it wherever you’d like - they can be used in-product, on your website, or even in other articles.

You can even use the article inserter to send customers to specific article sections in conversations.

Visit our help center to learn how to get started.

Outbound Messaging

Prevent your audience from responding with new no-reply Post messages

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Shared by Nicole • January 12, 2021

Introducing no-reply post messages! You can now set whether your Posts can be responded to with text or emoji reactions, or prevent replies altogether.

Setting your reply type to None will result in small or large Post messages messages that do not give your audience an option to respond. Use this format for product announcements, proactive support messages, and more, when a response isn’t needed.

To use this feature in your mobile app, you must have the latest version of our mobile SDKs.

To learn more about this feature, check out this article.

Outbound Messaging

Split test your way to the most optimal Series 📈

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Shared by Nicole • December 17, 2020

You can now test up to five different message types, message content, CTAs, timing, and more in Series. Simply add a split test block in a Series to get started.

From there, add a goal (this can be different from the broader Series or message goals) and choose how many people should go to each test.

Create the varying messages, and set your Series live ✅

When you accrue enough data to determine the most effective path, select the winner, and any new users that enter the Series will only flow through that winning path.

Get started with Series here or learn more about split testing in this article.

Mobile
Outbound Messaging

Now supporting .p8 certificates for iOS push 📱

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Shared by Priyanka • December 11, 2020

Remembering to update your iOS push certificates each year can be tricky. You can now switch to using a .p8 certificate instead, which doesn’t expire every 12 months. Once you make the switch, there’s no need to worry about upgrading again.

To learn more, check out this developer doc.

Security & Settings
Inbox

🔒 Control access to conversations by teams or roles with our new inbox permission

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Shared by Ashley • December 10, 2020

Starting today, you can keep sensitive information secure by limiting which conversations a teammate can access in the inbox.

You can set conversation access in two ways. First, at the teammate level by manually restricting conversations to a subset of teams or teammates. Or you can set this permission in bulk using Custom roles.

To learn more about customizing your permissions, see our help doc.

Bots

Introducing new features in Resolution Bot (Beta)

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Shared by LeighAnne • December 09, 2020

We’re rolling out new features that will give you more coverage from Resolution Bot. All of our Resolution Bot customers will automatically have access to the following features as part of an open beta:

1. Resolve more conversations with Looping mode - Resolution Bot will now attempt to answer multiple questions within the same conversation as the default setting for new customers. End users will still be able to connect with a teammate by clicking the “Talk to a person” quick-reply button. Looping can be turned off in Operator settings.

2. Surface articles where answers don’t exist - The Articles Suggestions task bot (existing feature) will now be able to respond to customer questions if an answer hasn’t already been created. Article suggestions task bot and Looping must be turned on for this feature to work.

3. Auto-close option (Looping only)- If a conversation has been inactive for 3 minutes or more, customers can choose to either automatically close a conversation or route it to a team member. The default setting will be to route to a team member, but you can update this in Operator settings.

4. Better understand your Resolution Bot performance with The Resolution Bot report -We've added new reporting filters, so you will now be able to see metrics for just Looping, One-Time, or both.

5. Updated reporting calculations for :

- Sent: # of conversation where the answer has been served by the Resolution Bot.

- Resolved: Among "Sent", # of conversation that ended up with a "That helped" reply or soft resolution.

- Routed to team: Among "Sent", # of conversation that ended up being routed to the team.

6. Let Resolution Bot take control when your team isn’t available with Bot Only mode- this will allow teammates to put customers into a self-serve support only mode if they choose to.

These features are expected to officially launch in the first half of next year.

For more information, visit our help center.

Outbound Messaging

Ensure your users never miss a message with our new non-dismissable Banners 👀

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Shared by Nicole • November 24, 2020

To ensure your messages are never missed, you can now set whether your Banners are dismissable or not.

For Banners with specific actions (e.g. asking for Emoji reactions), you can also set whether the Banner should be dismissed on the click (e.g. submitted an Emoji reaction), or if it should persist regardless of whether the user performs that action.

Inbox

🆕 Access conversation data via Intercom’s API for more sophisticated reporting and workflow needs 🔁 📊

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Shared by Mary • November 12, 2020

Last quarter, we introduced conversation data attributes to help you categorize and resolve complex support requests in a more efficient way. Today, we’re adding API support so you can access conversation data in your external analytic tools, or use it with automation platforms to build out more custom workflows.

As a part of API v2.3, you can:

  • See the data attributes of a conversation
  • Update a conversation’s data attribute
  • List all data attributes associated with conversations

For more information on getting started with API v2.3, review our dev docs.