New at Intercom
Apps & API

Resolve order issues faster and provide better self-serve support with our updated Shopify App 🛒

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Shared by Mark • September 03, 2020

In addition to significant speed improvements, our completely revamped Shopify app more accurately syncs customer data, enables new order creation from the Inbox, surfaces detailed order information, and more!

Resolve order issues faster with improved customer data syncing and more order details in the Inbox 🔄

We surface tracking information, order confirmation links, product SKUs, and more inside the Inbox so your team doesn’t have to spend time manually searching for the relevant information.

Improved data syncing between Intercom and Shopify ensures your order and customer data are accurate and up to date. Now you can look up your customer’s profile using their order number or email address, even if it doesn’t match the one in Intercom.

Quickly create orders and share products or order status during conversations 🔗

Seamlessly create new orders, search for specific products, send product links, and share an order’s status right from the Inbox while you're chatting with your customers - no need to open Shopify.

Enable your customers to resolve their own questions 🙋🏾‍♀️

Enable multiple languages in the Shopify app on your Messenger home screen so your customers can self-serve support in their own language.

If you’re already using the Shopify app, explore the new features in our help docs. Visit the Intercom App Store to install the Shopify app.

Inbox

Prevent your conversation tags from getting unmanageable with new tagging permissions 🔐

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Shared by Mary • September 03, 2020

With new tagging permissions, you can restrict the ability to create, edit, and archive conversation tags to specific teammates.

By default, any teammate who “Can manage workspace data” will be granted the new tagging permission as well. You can change this, or assign permission to others by going to Teammates’ Settings and editing each user.

Tagging permissions also works with Custom Roles, making it even easier and more efficient to ensure that different teammates have consistent access to the right privileges.

To learn more about managing conversation tags, read our help doc.

Inbox

Keep your inbox automation organized by archiving and deleting unused SLAs 🧹

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Shared by Mary • September 03, 2020

You can now streamline your list of SLAs by archiving and deleting ones that you no longer need.

What's the difference between archiving and deleting?

  • Archiving an SLA target removes it from your SLA list, but maintains the historic data for use in reporting. You can only archive SLAs not being used in rules.
  • Deleting an SLA removes it from your SLA list and conversations where the target is applied. It will no longer be visible in reports too. You can only delete archived SLAs.

To learn more about keeping your SLAs organized, read our help doc.

Bots

More leads with less effort 😎 - Custom Bot A/B testing, goals, retriggering rules, + more!

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Shared by LeighAnne • September 02, 2020

To help you drive even more leads and engagement with your Custom Bots, we’re launching several new features 🎉

1. A/B test your bots and set goals to understand effectiveness

It’s now easier than ever to understand what bot content performs well with A/B testing and goal setting. A/B test what message content is most effective, and set goals to see which versions perform best. Then make optimizations based on this data to drive more leads for your business 💰

2. Send your Custom Bots more than once

Generate more leads by reengaging returning website visitors with the same bot. You can now use the same Custom Bot to engage your website visitors, regardless of if they’ve seen the bot before. Customize when you want your bot to be seen until: once per user, until it’s opened/dismissed, or until it’s engaged with.

Note: to use this specific feature in your mobile app, you must have the latest version of Intercom's mobile SDKs .

3. Manage all your outbound messages in one place📍

You now have the ability to manage your Custom Bots in the Outbound section of Intercom where all of your other outbound messages live (e.g. email, chats, posts, mobile push, etc.). Your bots will also continue to live within Operator, and we’ve merged bots for visitors and for users to make it easier for you to keep track of all your Custom Bots.

To get started, navigate to your Custom Bots in Intercom. To learn more about Custom Bots and how they can help you drive engagement on your website, check out this article.

Apps & API
Customer Data Platform

More efficiently manage customer conversations with API v2.2 🚀

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Shared by Mark • September 01, 2020

The new version of our API gives you more powerful ways to manage and assign your customer conversations.

Gain greater control over conversations 💬

Automatically assign conversations to a team or a teammate, return the conversation title, and individually search for and display the admin and team assigned to a conversation.

Improve security with conversation redaction ❌

Redact specific parts of customer conversations, including the source message.

Enhanced contact and company reporting 📊

We've reintroduced the ability to list all segments associated with a contact or company, which will make it easier to report on what segments your contacts or companies are entering and leaving.

If you’re a developer with an app in our App Store, this new update also includes a health check endpoint to help you reduce churn by proactively reporting your app’s status to Intercom if it’s not working correctly. Review our developer docs to get started with API v2.2.

Outbound Messaging
Reporting

New and improved: email targeting 📍and reporting 📈

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Shared by Nicole • August 27, 2020

We just launched new features to enhance how you target email recipients and help you understand email performance.

1. Send emails based on users visiting a specific webpage: when setting up targeting for a specific email, you can now send based on visits to specific page URLs, or time on a specific page.

2. Visualize email performance over time: simply click the metrics you’re interested in (opened, clicked, etc.) to see trendlines. If versioning is in your plan, you’ll also be able to see the performance of each version.

To get started, navigate to your emails in Intercom.

Bots

Solve customer questions before they ask with Predictive Answers

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Shared by LeighAnne • August 26, 2020

You can now use Predictive Answers in Resolution Bot to answer your customer’s questions - in context and before they ever start typing in the messenger.

To start automatically suggesting answers for users and visitors, go to Operator > Settings > ‘Suggest relevant answers.’ Then, enable Resolution Bot to suggest answers Before customers start typing. This will allow Resolution bot to automatically your existing Answers as predictions.

If you’d like to exclude any answers from being used, you can set this on an individual answer basis by unchecking this box.

For more information, visit our help doc.

Mobile
Reporting
Outbound Messaging

Mobile Carousel reporting improvements 📈

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Shared by Priyanka • August 20, 2020

To help you understand how your Mobile Carousels are performing, and where your users are dropping off, we’ve introduced new reporting improvements 🎉

You can now see where users are dropping off within a given carousel with view stats for each screen:

You’ll only see stats related to your most recently saved version of that carousel unless you have message versioning in your plan.

If message versioning is in your plan, click the version number below the carousel name. Select the version you want to view in the right-hand sidebar, and the stats related to that specific version will be shown for each screen. Toggle between different versions to see how changes you’ve made have impacted performance.

To learn more about Mobile Carousels, check out this article.

Inbox
Bots

Efficiently scale your world-class support with new rules, views, duplicates flagging, and more

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Shared by Mary • August 12, 2020

We know that the Inbox is critical to helping your team deliver an efficient yet exceptional support experience. With powerful new rules and features, you can better manage conversations at scale.

  • Automate 4x more manual tasks than before by triggering new rules for outbound messages, inactive teammates, after-hours questions, and more. Save even more time by completing multiple actions with a single rule.
  • Get real-time oversight on conversations that need your team’s attention without jumping through multiple inboxes. With views, you can create a flexible list of conversations based on any criteria, like reply times, SLAs, or types of issues.
  • Reduce inefficiencies by spotting duplicate conversations from the same customer. Task Bot now alerts you to a potential duplicate by posting an internal note in the conversation.
  • Ensure that a conversation never falls through the cracks with our improved assignment property for Teams. Conversations can be assigned to both a Teammate and Team, so you have context on where it originated. And, if you’re in Away Mode, a conversation is now returned automatically to the right team.

For details on availability for your plan, chat with us via the messenger.

Wanna see what else we’ve launched? Check out the roundup here.

Inbox
Bots
Messenger
Reporting

Handle complex conversations more efficiently with new ticketing workflows

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Shared by Mary • August 12, 2020

By integrating powerful new conversation data across Intercom, you can create an end-to-end ticketing workflow to manage complex conversations more efficiently.

  • Use bots to automatically collect upfront info from customers like topic and urgency — or whatever else your team needs to prioritize an issue — and route conversations to the right team based on that data.
  • Surface conversation data in the inbox so that your team has the context they need to provide personalized responses quickly, without asking customers for more details.
  • Edit data, add titles, and see unique IDs for conversations to make it easier to reference later on or share context when collaborating with others.
  • Leverage conversation data in views and rules to create powerful workflows that automatically identify, categorize, and triage issues that can’t be answered immediately.
  • Drill down into your reports by conversation data to see how different types of issues impact your team and support operations.

Ready to get started? Check out our guide on advanced workflows. For details on availability for your plan, please chat with us via the Messenger.

Wanna see what else we’ve launched? Check out the roundup here.