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Create a Custom Channel without Fin

  • January 23, 2026
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Hi there,

I've been looking through Intercom documentation, and it seems like there's something called a Custom Channel and an event called "custom channel base event." However, when I dig a little deeper, it seems that’s somehow connected to Fin?

Not trying to integrate a conversation with the Fin chatbot; rather, I am looking to use my own pipeline for our users to interact with my customer service team in Inbox.

What I'm looking to do is integrate my custom app as a custom channel in Inbox so that our team can interact through our own managed integration via API.

Does anyone know:

  1. How to access this capability?
  2. If this feature is gated?
  3. Whether usage of this feature is billable or if it is included in the standard subscription tier?

Thank you!