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At a glance

Company

Spendesk is an all-in-one spend management solution that gives finance teams control and visibility over company spending.

https://www.spendesk.com/

Headquarters

Paris, France


Industry

FinTech


Key features used

Team Inbox
Outbound Messages
Custom Bots
Resolution Bot
Articles
Product Tours

Com a missão de "ajudar as empresas a gastar com mais inteligência", o Spendesk utiliza o Intercom nas vendas, suporte e marketing para oferecer aos clientes o auxílio necessário para administrar as finanças de forma eficiente.

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A single source of truth for customer conversations

Prior to using Intercom, the team used Zendesk for customer support. On the recommendation of their investors, they implemented Intercom to take a more conversational approach to supporting their customers, while still using Zendesk to host their help center. In 2020, the team made the decision to consolidate all of their customer communication and support documentation into a single platform, migrating the help center from Zendesk and adopting Intercom as their sole support platform.

A key value differentiator of Intercom compared with Zendesk was its ability to offer proactive and self-serve support capabilities.
Vincent Terol
Head of Customer Success at Spendesk

“Antes de usar o Intercom, não tínhamos uma fonte única de informações no contato com o cliente, e era o que queríamos”, explica Vincent. “Um importante diferencial de valor do Intercom, em comparação ao Zendesk, é oferecer recursos de suporte."

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A equipe queria se comunicar de forma mais eficaz com os clientes e oferecer ajuda quando eles precisassem, o que o Intercom permitiu. No início, a plataforma era usada apenas para suporte ao cliente, mas a equipe expandiu gradualmente o uso do produto. Eles agora também usam as soluções de Marketing Conversacional e de Engajamento de Cliente do Intercom nas vendas e no marketing.

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Providing powerful human support with automation

Victoria Vergnaud is on the Customer Success Operations team at Spendesk, driving the use of powerful automation and bots across the customer success and user care teams. Using a combination of Custom Bots and Resolution Bot, Victoria explains that customer queries are effectively triaged and routed to the right person to help them with their issue. This not only enhances efficiency within the support org, it also creates better experiences for their customers.

Intercom’s proactive and self-serve support capabilities are really powerful for us on the customer success and care teams.
Victoria Vergnaud
Customer Success Operations at Spendesk

"Os suportes proativos e de autoatendimento da Intercom são excelentes para nós, das equipes de atendimento e sucesso do cliente”, diz ela. “Com eles, mantemos uma taxa de contato com o cliente de 7%. Também estamos usando recursos como o Series para personalizar mais nossa abordagem de mensagens aos clientes, o que tem sido extremamente benéfico.”

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Providing support at scale with bots

As Spendesk continues to grow, Victoria explains that their expanding customer base has resulted in a surge of activity across their sales, support, and marketing operations. On the support side, Intercom’s bots have been invaluable in helping the teams to manage this increase in inbound conversation volume. Custom Bots are currently triaging all 1,500 monthly inbound conversations and Resolution Bot is resolving one in every five common questions that it’s answering.

In less than six months, we’ve moved from having a median first-response time of 45 minutes to just 10 minutes – an 80% reduction.

“Nossa base de clientes aumentou constantemente no ano passado, e tanto o Resolution Bot quanto o Custom bots tiveram um impacto muito grande na capacidade de gerenciar nosso volume de conversas. Também estamos usando muito o Articles para que os clientes achem a resposta para as perguntas, o que liberou nossa equipe de atendimento para lidar com questões mais urgentes”, comemora Victoria. “Em menos de seis meses, passamos de um tempo médio de primeira resposta de 45 minutos para apenas 10 minutos – uma redução de 80%.”

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Offering help before it’s needed

Both Vincent and Victoria point to the team’s focus on building out proactive support in the year ahead. With efforts across the company to improve smart alerting functionality in their product, Spendesk’s support team is looking to leverage these alerts to better understand where customers are running into roadblocks while using the platform and offer support before it’s needed.

We’re convinced that proactive support is something we should heavily invest in if we want to maintain the highest quality of support.

"Queremos identificar os padrões, sejam eles falhas na transação ou problemas no produto, para agirmos e acompanharmos as mensagens personalizadas aos clientes", explica Vincent. "Estamos convencidos de que devemos investir muito no suporte proativo se quisermos manter a mais alta qualidade de suporte."

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Driving better user experiences

With this sharp focus on proactively supporting their customers, Victoria explains that the customer success operations team has taken a number of steps in the past year to set their reps – and customers – up for future success. “About a year ago when we had customer issues, we weren’t immediately able to see what the issues were and what could be done. We decided to revamp our tech setup so we could better identify what the main issues are when customers write to us, and we’ve set up Custom Bots to categorize all of that information,” she says.

Collecting and categorizing this information with the help of Custom Bots is a way for us to be more proactive in addressing the difficulties our customers are facing, and we can leverage that data internally to build a better user experience.

Com esses insights, a equipe de operações de sucesso do cliente oferece dados valiosos à equipe de produtos, para que eles melhorem a experiência do usuário em todo o ciclo de vida do cliente. "Usar Custom Bots para coletar e categorizar essas informações é uma forma de sermos mais proativos para lidar com as dificuldades dos clientes. Podemos aproveitar esses dados internamente para criar uma experiência melhor ao usuário."

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A better approach to customer communication

Within Spendesk, Vincent and Victoria point to the benefits they’ve experienced in being able to connect teams from across the company with their customers using Intercom. “We’ve found Intercom to be a great way of getting people from different teams involved and aware of what’s going on with our customers,” says Vincent. “We’re able to tag teammates in conversations to raise awareness of important issues, and also ensure we’re bringing the right people to the table to answer our customers’ questions.”

It’s really important that we can gather specific feedback about things that are happening and going wrong, and tag it so we can consistently improve our communication.

Ao atribuir tags às conversas, Vincent explica que a equipe também coletou e analisou com mais eficiência o feedback e as tendências dos clientes para, assim, iterar e melhorar o suporte. “É muito importante coletar feedback específico sobre o que está acontecendo e dando errado e marcá-las para melhorarmos sistematicamente nossa comunicação”, explica.

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Engaging customers at every stage of their journey

Outside of supporting their customers through Intercom, Victoria explains that the team is utilizing Series and Product Tours to send personalized messages to customers throughout their journey with the platform. “The fact that we’re able to integrate Intercom with other tools like Salesforce enables us to send tailored messages based on where customers are in their journey, if a specific event has been triggered, or if they’ve taken a particular action,” she says.

We use Intercom for our onboarding flows, to share announcements about new features, and to re-engage customers. Having everything centralized is really helpful because it lets us create more personalized, automated messaging flows.

Assim que o usuário se cadastra no Spendesk, a equipe envia mensagens direcionadas pelo Intercom para orientá-lo no processo de onboarding e o prepara para o sucesso. "Usamos o Intercom nos fluxos de onboarding para anunciar novos recursos e reengajar os clientes. Ter tudo centralizado é útil, pois assim criamos fluxos de mensagens mais personalizados e automatizados."

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An all-in-one solution

Across support, sales, and marketing, the Spendesk team is building stronger and deeper relationships with their customers through Intercom’s conversational solutions. “I think we’re a good example of an Intercom success story,” says Vincent. “We started out using it to support our customers and progressively expanded our use to include marketing and, most recently, sales when we saw the potential the platform had to help us scale our business.”