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Feature Request: Real-Time Agent Presence Indicator

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  • October 1, 2025
  • 7 replies
  • 70 views

Currently, the system has limited visibility of team activity on tickets. While there is some functionality to see others on a ticket, it's not consistently reliable or prominently displayed. Moreover, there's no indication of when someone is actively composing a reply.

As a support team member, I need a more robust presence indicator to prevent ticket collision and duplicate responses to better coordinate with colleagues on complex customer issues. An improved system showing who's viewing tickets and actively responding would significantly reduce overlapping work and enhance our collaboration efficiency.

Other platforms like Zendesk and Freshdesk implement this with avatar indicators in the conversation header. A similar approach would be intuitive for Intercom users.

Implement a visual presence indicator system that shows:

  • Profile pictures of agents currently viewing the conversation
  • Clear indication of which agent is actively typing a response
  • Optional preview of what's being drafted (similar to Google Docs collaborative editing)

 

 

7 replies

Excellent improvement idea. Please implement it. 


  • New Participant
  • October 2, 2025

We need this ASAP.


Fully support this idea—please proceed with it ASAP.


  • New Participant
  • October 3, 2025

Great idea!


  • New Participant
  • October 7, 2025

Excellent idea, need that!


  • New Participant
  • October 7, 2025

Yes! That’s exactly what we need.

 


  • New Participant
  • April 23, 2026

My exact problem I am having with agents.

I would add if the agent is inactive on the ticket as well. They stepped away or signed off for the day but somehow intercom sees them on the ticket. I believe Zendesk greys the agent out when no activity is done on the ticket for a bit. That would be useful to for agents sharing tickets!