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Ability to merge duplicate users or leads with the same email address would be very useful

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  • January 22, 2024
  • 30 replies
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Rhiann Porter
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It seems very strange that if a customer contacts us from different devices or after clearing their website cookies, instead of merging the new lead with the existing lead, Intercom just creates them a new profile with a new user ID. No other system I’ve used allows duplicate users/leads with the same email address, and usually they force you to use the existing contact, so why is this the case with Intercom?

 

It makes it very difficult for our support staff to keep track of different conversations from the same person if they have multiple users. Of course, we can search their email address in Users/Leads and open each profile to read each conversation in separate tabs, but this is pretty time consuming and isn’t helpful on a busy day.

 

Are there any plans to make it possible to do something as simple as merging duplicate users and/or leads?

October 18, 2024

Hey @david meakin and @Daniel Davis 👋🏼

You cannot merge two users with the same email address in Intercom; you can only merge a lead into a user.

To manage duplicates, you can manually merge the new lead with the user by updating the lead with the correct user’s email address to match an existing user’s email address. However it's important to note that it's currently not possible to merge two Users in Intercom.

Hope this helps! 💪🏼

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Jennifer K
Intercom Team
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  • Intercom Team
  • February 2, 2024
NewPlanned

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  • Active User
  • October 1, 2024

Can you now merge users with the same email address or is it still just leads to users?


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  • Active User
  • October 14, 2024

Any updated @Jennifer K ?


  • New Participant
  • October 17, 2024

Can you now merge users with the same email address or is it still just leads to users?

Is this accurate? We’ve been told by support merging user to user is not possible. Where can this be done in the front end?


Emilygav
Intercom Team
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  • Intercom Team
  • October 18, 2024

Hey @david meakin and @Daniel Davis 👋🏼

You cannot merge two users with the same email address in Intercom; you can only merge a lead into a user.

To manage duplicates, you can manually merge the new lead with the user by updating the lead with the correct user’s email address to match an existing user’s email address. However it's important to note that it's currently not possible to merge two Users in Intercom.

Hope this helps! 💪🏼


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  • Active User
  • October 18, 2024

this is why i asked this as it says this is implemented?
 

 


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  • Active User
  • October 28, 2024

Is there another place we can upvote the ability to merge users? As David notes, this is not implemented.


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Hi @Chris C11,  Ebenezer here from Engineering Support👋.

This would be the best place to upvote on features you want implemented.

Simply commenting will show the amount of interest.

Thanks!!


  • New Participant
  • December 9, 2024

Definitely needed. 


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As explained above by other Intercom Customers - not being able to marge users creates poor data, frustrating customer experiences, and duplicated admin work.


Angel Horowitz
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100,000% needed. This is the first system we’ve used that hasn’t had this capability.


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  • Connector
  • February 11, 2025

@Emilygav Can you mark this as NOT implemented ? This issue has been surfaced many times with the support and somehow ignored or merged in totally unrelated request such as Merge conversation

 


  • New Participant
  • February 27, 2025

This is an industry standard feature of support and CRM systems.  Any system with Contacts needs duplicate management because humans make errors.

 

Thanks.


Peter Moriarty
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This moved to ‘planned’ a year ago. Any idea on ETA? 


This would be incredibly helpful - it’s a large pain point.


Angel Horowitz
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Agreed, following up here as well to see if there’s been any movement on this. 


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We still need this too, duplicate users continue to create poor data, frustrating customer experiences, and duplicated admin work.


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  • Active User
  • May 16, 2025

@Jennifer K ​@Emilygav 
Any update here?


Siobhan Robson
  • New Participant
  • September 19, 2025

Time to bump again ​@Jennifer K ​@Emilygav 

This is a huge blocker for us. Our engineering and product teams identify that we’ve got roughly between 1500-2000 unique users across all of our clients, but somehow Intercom has over 5000 leads and users identified. In some cases you can manually search and see some users have two or three or more records.

As noted above, it’s industry standard to let your clients select records and merge them manually. The same for conversations and Company details. Please review this, as it’s a huge issue.


  • New Participant
  • October 24, 2025

Same problem for us! Would be great, if that could be implemented ASAP. Thanks a lot!


Zofia Rybarczyk 🐟

I would also very much like to have an option to merge duplicate users. In our workspace this is a common issue. I’d add that it would be helpful to have an option to merge users that are duplicates but have two different email addresses which happens, then they could have two assigned emails to themselves and teammates would choose the one the messege should go to. 


  • New Participant
  • November 10, 2025

Upvoted and commenting that this causes a huge amount of friction on our team.


Aiden Taylor
  • New Participant
  • November 12, 2025

I would also very much like to have an option to merge duplicate users. In our workspace this is a common issue. I’d add that it would be helpful to have an option to merge users that are duplicates but have two different email addresses which happens, then they could have two assigned emails to themselves and teammates would choose the one the messege should go to. 

Absolutely agree with ​@Zofia Rybarczyk 🐟 not only should we be able to merge users, but be able to merge users and retain all their information.


Luka Dujmovic
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  • Active User
  • November 13, 2025

100% behind this feature request. 


Nurit
Innovator ✨
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  • Innovator ✨
  • December 31, 2025

Upvoted. We’re experiencing the same issue with duplicate users. Are there any plans to implement this feature in the near future?