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Hi everyone 👋 Soon you’ll be able to change the phrase used in the start conversation button on the Messenger Home screen via a drop down of options. We’d love to get your feedback on if these choices resonate and if you have suggestions you’d like to add. Right now we’re considering Send us a message, Ask a question, Chat with us, Talk to us, Contact us, and Start a conversation. Just let me know in a comment below! PS - this first iteration won’t support a free text input, just a selection of pre-canned options. Thanks, Christine
Hi everyone,I'm having an issue with Dataset Export in Intercom.In Daily Report I can successfully filter by "Brand is not [specific brand]" and get the correct data.However, when I go to Dataset Export, the same Brand filter is available in the UI, but when I select it, there is no content inside (no brands to choose from). It feels like the filter is broken in Export.Has anyone experienced this? Is there a known limitation or workaround?Thanks in advance!
We are having trouble with office hours not being taking into account for the ticketing reporting. For example, the report says the ticket was open for 1 day and 4 hoursWhen you look at the breakdown on the ticket it says:ticket open: 22/05 at 1:36PMticket closed: 27/05 at 4:52PMThere is more than 1 day and 4 hours between those dates. If you convert the 1d 4hrs into 24 hour time you get 28 hours, then divide by 8 you get 3.5 working days which is correct but it is not displayed correctly. Does anyone have a work around for this? Thank you!!
We help customers organize scattered content (recipes, PDFs, docs) into a single polished output using an AI layout tool called Cookbook AI. It keeps the original text unchanged and just handles categorization and layout.Curious how other teams here handle similar "many small pieces of content -> one organized deliverable" workflows for their own users. Do you build this in-house or point customers to existing tools?
Hello,In our web application, we’re trying to display a specific news items based on button clicks using Intercom(‘showNews’, 1234). We’re currently facing an issue though as soon as we try to open two different news items (by clicking on each button one after the other). When we do this action, the first news item will somehow be cached and displayed again. Then no matter which button we click, the first item will always be the one displayed. We’ve tried to call Intercom(‘showSpace’, ‘news’) to see if it would solve the issue but to no avail.You can reproduce it by going on community.intercom.com and running the following in the console:Intercom('showNews', 31822)Intercom('showNews', 28469)Could you help me here ? I believe this might be a bug.
Hi everyone,I'm currently exploring different ways to improve customer support workflows using AI. I was wondering how other teams are measuring the quality of responses generated by Fin AI.A few questions I have:What metrics do you monitor the most? Have you noticed improvements in first-response resolution? Do you use Fin mainly for FAQs, product support, or live conversations? Any best practices for training AI with a growing knowledge base?I'd love to hear how your team approaches this and what has worked well in real-world use cases.Thanks!
Hi all,We're seeing an issue after conversations are handed off from Fin to Zendesk:Customer messages are successfully reaching Zendesk Conversations are being assigned to agents as expected Agents can reply from ZendeskHowever, the customer never receives the agent response in the Messenger widget. Instead, the widget remains stuck on: "Waiting for a teammate" The handoff itself appears to be working correctly, so the issue seems isolated to agent replies not syncing back to Messenger after the conversation is assigned. Has anyone encountered this before or have suggestions on where we should investigate? Screenshot attached for reference, thank you in advance!
I am handling one of my client’s projects, where he is offering translation-based services across the World. I am a developer but confused about how can I automate certain compaigns based projects in all famous languages across the Globe. This is what my client is demanding about it. We have developed certain custom softwares for these things but did not get any reasonable results-oriented.Now, I am looking for some intercom-based software that can help me to start campaigns across the Globe according to the users locations, but with automation-based steps for this Online Translation Agency.
Hello! 👋 Our Quality Assurance team has a strong focus on manually evaluating conversations handled only by our human teammates. At this time, Monitors will not pull conversations for review unless the following parameter is met:The conversation must include at least 2 messages from Fin and 2 messages from the customer. Would it be possible to not have this parameter in place? A substantial amount of our conversations (especially emails) do not involve Fin, and they are equally important for evaluating the overall Customer Service experience. Thank you! 😊
Good morning! I have a question regarding the current Messenger outage.Are customers still able to submit support tickets, and if so, do those conversations simply remain in the queue until the outage is resolved? Is there any message displayed to users who are trying to access the Help Center or contact Support during the outage?I'm also wondering how this outage impacts our responsiveness metrics. For example, does the time waiting during the outage count toward our first response time and responsiveness reporting?Thank you!
We’re going to stop using Fin AI. It’s a shame because the product itself is really good, but the pricing isn’t suited to marketplace business models like ours.With margins of around €1 per user per month (incl. VAT) and high volumes, the cost quickly becomes unsustainable.If possible, it would be great to share this feedback with your product teams internally — there’s likely a broader pricing vs. business model fit issue for marketplaces.
Hi there, The new ‘From and Reply‑to’ fields are always visible when you’re writing an email, I’ve noticed this change today, 23 July 2026.Can you please make this a preference so that one can toggle this on/off based on experience. I get that this is nice for people to see who they are sending the email to which is great but not ideal if it is going to take up that much space.It takes up the view in a conversation so make the conversation section smaller due to the block.Thank you in advance.Best regards,
Since today we have noticed that the new link editor automatically modifies URLs when adding or editing links in emails.The issue is that the editor decodes already percent-encoded characters inside the URL path, which changes the actual URL and breaks our download links.ExampleOriginal URL:https://xxxxxxx.xxx/.platform/customerdata/zbHfKMjdoCqhmXfSccxGpiD7AglaH%2B8DzS7jE%2Bvjbl%2F%2FnDJQggRqcINpVye5ybA3GQrIQtOHPl7GEr%2Bb6kWBgQ%3D%3DAfter saving with the link editor:https://xxxxxxx.xxx/.platform/customerdata/zbHfKMjdoCqhmXfSccxGpiD7AglaH+8DzS7jE+vjbl//nDJQggRqcINpVye5ybA3GQrIQtOHPl7GEr+b6kWBgQ==The editor converts:%2B -> +%2F -> /%3D -> =The conversion of %2F into / is particularly problematic because it creates additional path segments, making the URL invalid.These are signed download URLs, where the exact path is part of the signature. Any modification of the encoded characters invalidates the link.This worked correctly until today and started after the new link editor was i
I review the questions customers ask FIN. At some point in the last 5 days a change was made and now when I view the conversation (from Reports, FIN involved) the convesation automatically goes the bottom and I have to scroll up to the top for every conversation. How can I change this behavior?
We have some team members that are not on Intercom all the time. However, some message do need their input. It would be great to be able to slack teammate when they are mentioned @____ in the notes.And also, when the chat is assigned to the person.
Yesterday and today we experienced two inbound phone calls in a short period where the phonecalls entered the Hold and assign call step and remained In queue.No available teammate was automatically offered the call, even though atleast one teammate was active and could immediately answer the call manually.Can someone of Intercom check the backend routing logs to determine why no teammate was selected for automatic assignment for these conversations? I've already tried to figure out what might have gone wrong, based on the logging I am thinking it might have something to do with the away status and how we have configured our workflow, but no clear reason could be determined.We have enabled Show team composition in conversation event log, but no team composition events are written to the conversation timeline for new inbound calls. Is there any prerequisite for this feature, or is it expected to work for all Phone conversations?We compared a successful inbound call with a failed inbound
Hi everyone,I'm hoping someone has run into this before.We're currently migrating our internal Knowledge Base into Intercom for Fin/CoPilot, but we're not manually creating each article in Intercom. Instead, we're uploading our existing documentation from Google Docs (exported as .docx) or as PDFs. We don't use Notion, Guru, or Confluence.The problem is that every upload loses a lot of its formatting, making the articles much harder for agents—and Fin/CoPilot—to read.I've already tried pretty much everything I can think of: Using Normal text only (no Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) Using bold text instead of Word heading styles Keeping section labels (Purpose, Process, Before You Begin, etc.) as bold text on their own line Using bold for step titles (e.g. Step 1: Verify the order) with normal text underneath Keeping formatting very simple with basic bullet points Uploading both .docx and PDF versions The formatting still gets stripped or flattened during import.Has anyone success
Hi, we have our workflow set up to allow 5 minutes to have a team member answer incoming chats and emails during office hours, Fin kicks in before the 5 minutes and answers the chat or email. When one our team members replies to a chat or email Fin will then reply to the team member. Has anyone experienced this? I feel like its an easy fix , not sure if we are missing a step in our workflow. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
I want to be able to distinguish between mentions on conversations that have been resolved vs. conversations on tickets that are unresolved. Using the “unread” view doesn’t help me a lot because I want to be able to view and come back to mentions on open tickets (esp. given that tickets can’t be assigned to multiple people). I guess mentions on closed tickets will be visible on the “read” view forever?
Hello Team,I would like to request for a feature with regards to the option for Closed conversations on first contact.Your current parameter and help documentetion says that if the conversation was handled entirely by one agent but if it is a reopened conversation it will not be incuded in the single agent closure.We currently are measuring the performace for the agents depending on the single agent closures which creats a huge imact, also we do not want the reopen option to be blocked for the customers.We weould like to request for a feature where the single agent clsoure incudes the reopened conversations as well. Thank you.
Issue: Fin sometimes have a follow up question, “Is that what you were looking for?” / “Did that helped?”Customer replied: “ok” “okay thanks” “cool” “got it” BUT, they’re not totally done with their concern. This is affecting Fin CSAT.
In the last few weeks, it appears Intercom’s behavior around handling copy/pasted email addresses have changed and I really don’t like it. I’m trying to quickly fill out an email template and want to replace a few PLACEHOLDERS with a plain text email address like test@example.com. But now the current behavior instead of replacing the text with email is just adding a mailto: link. So instead of “test@example.com” it becomes “PLACEHOLDER” .I don’t think there’s any universe where adding a mailto link to my intercom message would ever be desired. This is causing me about 2 extra keystrokes to deal with and in aggregate it’s quite annoying behavior and unwanted.
Hi, I am able to embed how-to videos or guides in our help documentation pages. Can Fin automatically pick these videos and guides and show them in its answers? Is it possible today?
Hi team!I'm trying to understand how a customer ticket that was closed 3 months ago got reopened, despite our settings that should prevent it. I'd appreciate help understanding the mechanism.Setup:Tickets Portal is enabled for our customers Under Settings > Channels > Messenger > Control inbound volume, "Prevent users replying to closed tickets" is ON, set to 30 days (same for visitors and closed conversations) We have a workflow with the trigger "When a ticket is created" (Customer tickets, Web, Users) that applies an SLA and assigns tickets to our support teamWhat happened (from the ticket activity log):3 months ago: customer submitted a ticket via a Messenger ticket form, it was handled and manually closed by a teammate 4 days ago, on the same ticket ID, this sequence appears in the activity log: Company attribute set (by AI/automated attribution) Moved to "Submitted" and shared SLA applied by our "when a ticket is created" workflow Assigned by that same workflow Import
Getting intermittent hard bounces from Outlook/Microsoft recipients:```550 5.7.515 Access denied, sending domain HELP.HUEL.COM doesn't meet the required authentication level.SPF=Fail, DKIM=Pass, DMARC=Pass``` Setup: domain SPF managed via Sendmarc, mail sent through Intercom → Sparkpost EU. DMARC passes via DKIM alignment, so by DMARC's own rules this should be fine — but Microsoft is rejecting on SPF specifically.I’m being told by Intercom that this is just an accepted loss with not being able to respond to these customers. Anyone else experience this?
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