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Hello, I need to create a custom report in intercom utilizing the “Adjusted conversation handling time” metric, which I understand is currently in beta.  When searching for a metric, this option is not available. I can only find the regular “conversation handling time”. Am I missing something?   

Hi everyone 👋! I'm Alejandro Etchegoyen, founder and CEO of Waitry, a platform located in Madrid (Spain) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) that digitises ordering, payments and service for restaurants, hotels and retail worldwide. Happy to be part of the community!

Hi everyone,I’m seeing a strange issue with how intercom handles some external links shared inside messages and help center articles. One example I ran into was when a user tried to open a page related to the daily telenor quiz.When the link is clicked from an intercom message, some users either get a blank page, a blocked redirect, or the page opens without loading its scripts properly. If they copy and paste the same link into the browser directly, it works fine, which makes me think Intercom’s link handling, tracking, or iframe behavior might be interfering with how certain sites load.I’m wondering if this is caused by security headers, https enforcement, or how Intercom wraps outbound links for tracking. Could things like csp, mixed-content blocking, or redirects affect third-party pages that weren’t designed to be opened inside embedded or tracked links?Has anyone dealt with similar problems when linking out to external tools or informational pages from Intercom, and is there a re

I really appreciate the conversation topics and reporting features in Intercom. However, these would be even more valuable if the machine learning algorithm also analyzed ticket attributes, not just conversation messages. In our workflow, users fill out detailed forms when submitting tickets, so a lot of important information is stored as ticket attributes. Often, if a customer’s report is clear, we do not start a separate conversation.Currently, this means tickets are not automatically tagged with the appropriate conversation topics, even if the relevant keywords are present in the ticket attributes, since the machine learning only searches the conversations themselves. Expanding the analysis to include ticket attributes would ensure better topic tagging and more comprehensive reporting.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, ensuring that your team is productive and aligned with organizational goals is more important than ever. Workforce tracking tools provide companies with the ability to monitor employee performance, optimize workflows, and make data-driven decisions. By leveraging modern solutions, organizations can boost productivity, improve accountability, and gain deep insights into their operations.Real-Time Data Analytics for Smarter DecisionsOne of the core advantages of modern workforce monitoring software is real-time data analytics. These systems collect and analyze information from multiple sources to provide actionable insights instantly. Managers can identify bottlenecks, understand employee behavior, and make informed decisions that enhance overall team performance. With accurate analytics, organizations can move from reactive management to proactive strategy planning.Enhancing Remote Workforce ProductivityThe rise of remote work has made it incr

I want to be able to use the API to search for conversations with a certain CX score within a particular date range. Can you please add CX score to Accepted-Fields? https://developers.intercom.com/docs/references/rest-api/api.intercom.io/conversations/searchconversations#section/Accepted-Fields

Hey again! I noticed there is an option to collect Fin’s attributes data which is great, but is there any chance to be able to collect attributes’ data without Fin answering? Is this something that we can expect any time in the future?   

Hi all! Long-time listener, first-time caller 🙃I’m Eamon, and I lead Customer Ops at Playground. We’re exploring expanding our support channels to include video calls (e.g. Zoom).We serve daycare providers, who are often short on time and not always deeply tech-proficient. We’re thinking video could be a more effective way to handle “How do I…?” questions - offering a more immersive, high-touch experience that helps them get unstuck quickly.I’d love to hear from anyone who has rolled out higher-touch channels like phone or video: What worked well? What didn’t? Anything you’d do differently? How did you position it alongside chat/email? If you’ve had success here, I’d really appreciate the chance to learn from you. Thanks in advance!

We are currently attempting to test deployment of Fin for Zendesk Messaging and are encountering some issues where the Zendesk messaging widget is blank. We have tried multiple audience configurations with no luck.Why is the widget blank despite seemingly meeting the audience conditions and the deployment of Fin being live? Example of a conversation log in Fin of this:   When someone does not match the audience for Fin, shouldn’t they still experience the Zendesk Messenger/AI Bot or are they completely locked out of any messaging experience?

Using the FIN workflow, I’d like to trigger a bot survey using a URL. I’d also want some metadata passed over from FIN through the URL to our survey tool. How can I accomplish this?  Metadata examples:-FIN Conversation ID-Category

We have one workspace but multiple brands. I’ve been trying to get an answer on this question but the person helping me just stopped replying. And we need to urgently resolve this issue.We want to use app script to forward emails because we have complex filtering requirements. The issue is that when we send it via app script, it goes to the default workspace instead of the brand that’s sending the email. Which also means we are replying back from the wrong email.I tried using the workflow automation to fix this but it will only allow me to set a specific inbox, and while we have brand specific inboxes it doesn’t resolve the actual issue. I don’t see a way to set the brand using workflow automation.An agent told me “If you need the per-brand forwarding address again: edit the brand address → change/disable receiving → choose “Set up forwarding” and the unique @intercom-mail.com for that brand will be shown again so you can copy it, then re‑verify.”However, this does not show up in the U

Hi there!I’m having a really difficult time getting an accurate representation of ticket time allocation. I realize there’s a ton of nuance with this, but ideally, I’d like to see how much active time an agent spends on an email/chat but I’m not sure it’s completely possible without an attached timer for a rep to choose when it’s active and not actively being worked on. Is there a typical report or formula you use to determine how many tickets an agent can handle before needing to add more headcount to your support org? I have an idea of what this number is per week, but I want to be able to present accurate data to back it up, which is difficult to pull right now.Thanks for your help!

Nathan Sudds Hi, I'm Nathan!As a  Top Intercom Community Expert and active member helping answer key questions in the community, I bring 5+ years of specialized Intercom consulting experience and a background as a former Head of Community and Customer Support for a SaaS company. Through my company Activelabs, we've been helping teams for over a decade with collaboration and integration of all kinds not just Intercom.   We help teams transform their support operations through strategic automation and AI implementation. We've worked with everyone from small businesses to international hotel groups, cities, and startups.Why work with me?I'm here to be your expert on demand—working alongside your team to tackle what matters most to your business. Whether you're focused on growing revenue, cutting costs, reducing churn, or boosting retention, I help you see how Intercom fits into your bigger picture and drives real business outcomes.You already have a full-time job, working in your business

We've noticed that Intercom is limited in some aspects that other platforms already have, or in some ways that could be added to Intercom:- Increased speed of received audio within Intercom- Contact sharing- Supported attachment types- Use of proactive Marketing category messagesDoes anyone have any information on whether this is on the roadmap or if they've encountered a similar issue and how they resolved it?Best regards team. 

We are moving our help center from help.tillerhq.com to help.tiller.com. The redirects tool built into Intercom will not allow us to set up redirects if the primary domain is different. See message below that’s disabling the “save changes” button. Is there a way to direct on an article by article basis from the old domain to the new one using our Cloudflare set up or some other tooling?If this isn’t possible it seems like a pretty big flaw on your part,  Intercom. Some of our help center articles bring us a lot of organic search traffic and without being able to redirect those we’re going to lose some of that SEO juice.   

One thing we have been looking to do for a while is give fin access to simple status lookups for policies where payment is pending. The issue we are currently facing is that payment takes 3-5 business days to post on our platform (no clue why) however i have access to a running PowerBI report from accounting that contains policy numbers and also flags when a payment has been submitted almost immediately. the flags operate as a simple yes/no and would greatly decrease the amount of inquiries we get about payment status. essentially all of our workflows require that the retailer give us the policy number up front so matching wouldnt be a big problem. unfortunately our development team is spread thin so im really just trying to hack together a solution as proof of concept that we can get fin access to this data. ive done some work with data connectors successfully but this isnt in my wheelhouse. im wondering if theres any sort of integration/apps in intercom that could make my life easier

Hello everyone,I am facing an issue with Intercom Push Notification when it is a cold start (App is terminated, you receive a Push Notification and this notification will wake the App). While testing on Simulator that, if i am running my app from Xcode, terminate the App (on Simulator, not on Xcode), send a message to my test user, wait the push notification, receive it, tap on it but when i tap on it, Intercom Messenger does not opens the modal chat, it keeps me on my WorkListView (WorkList is a subview of RootView, that appears after SplashViews finish animation and transit to WorkListView).I have already made installation (API Key, API ID and Push Notifications are enabled on Settings > Channel > Messenger > Install > Install for Mobiles), Apple Developer is already configured, when i open the Messenger on my App, i can send and receive messages. When App is open but in background i am able to receive and wake the app in the correct modal Intercom window chat, but only t

Hello,Currently, our team primarily uses conversations for the majority of our Intercom interactions, and Fin triages all incoming cases first. We would like to create a process wherein any time a conversation is escalated from Fin to a human team, it is also converted to a ticket. This is because our Fin deployment is at a point where if anything is escalated, it is likely complex and will take time to resolve.This doesn’t seem to be possible with existing workflows, since the “convert to ticket” action only works when a customer sends their first message. We also do not want all emails to be converted to tickets - Fin handles both email and chat. The conversion should only happen when there’s an escalation.Has anyone in a similar situation found a good solution to streamline this process?

Hi Intercom Community, i’m having some difficulties creating a product tour. Quick question: Is it possible to create a tooltip in an Intercom product tour that isn’t anchored to a specific element, but still lets users click anywhere on the page to advance the tour? Thanks in advance for your help!

If you've been using Intercom’s Fin AI agent for a while, you'll remember when Tasks were the way to control how Fin behaved. Procedures have changed the game — but not everyone's had the chance to get their head around what's actually different and why it matters.In this live session, we're cutting through the noise and looking at exactly what's new with Fin Procedures: how they work, how they compare to the old Tasks setup, and what this means for your AI support strategy going forward.This one's for support leaders and CX teams who are actively using Fin with Tasks, and want to get ahead by planning for Procedures.You can RSVP and join via LinkedIn or via YouTube.

Hi Intercom team, we receive several errors after trying to login a user with attributes using react-native sdk.We check if the user is logged in before making a Intercom.loginUserWithUserAttributes call.A short stack-trace for the error we receive: code: 102,domain: io.intercom.ios.error.network,message: Error in loginUserWithUserAttributes,name: Error,NSLocalizedDescription: HTTP Error: 400 bad requestWe send email and userId to the method call, like this: Intercom.loginUserWithUserAttributes({ email, userId }) Could you help us understand why we still get an error, I’ve run a console.log for both email and userId and both seem legit.

The Claude integration has access just to the conversations. It will be good to give access also to the Help Center and The Articles and help us to improve the content.

 In Ep. 11 of Support Stack, Gabriela Passeri (Knowledge Manager at AutoDS) walks through how they made Fin actually understand their product.Their key move was to build internal, Fin-enabled glossaries mapping customer language to product terminology. Including synonyms, “avoid confusion with”, and even UI layout guidance.Super practical and very applicable if you have a complex B2B SaaS product with integrations!Full episode: I really hope it helps! 

Hello community,I'm experiencing an issue when trying to update the phone field in the user profile using the React Native SDK from Intercom.When I send the user data through the SDK method, all other fields are updated correctly, except for the phone field, which remains empty and is not saved.I have reviewed the documentation and understand that the phone number must be in E.164 format, and I am sending it in the correct format. However, the field still does not update.To rule out implementation errors, I tested the same update using the Intercom REST API, and in that case, the phone field is updated correctly using the exact same data.However, when I attempt to update the phone field using the React Native SDK, the value is not saved at all.Has anyone experienced this behavior or knows if I might be missing something?Could this be a limitation or a bug in the SDK? If I try to update the phone field using the React Native SDK with the provided method, it does not get updated. 

Hi everyone,If we have an outbound message that was already sent to users and they’ve received it, is there any way to update or change that message for those same users?We tried creating a new version of the outbound message, but it only applies to new users. Users who already received the original message continue to see the old content.Is there any option in Intercom to modify or replace or delete those previously delivered outbound messages?Thanks in advance 🙏