How can I create a user conversation for a website event?

If I remember correctly from the latest roadmap presentation event based messaging is planned to be integrated in Q2.

I think you might be able to send a message once if you create a custom event in Intercom and then use that event as a filter for your audience.

Check these two articles for more info:

https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/216-track-events-in-intercom/p>

https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/175-set-up-event-tracking-in-intercom/p>

Hello 👋, You can create conversations based on website events.

1) There two ways to send web-site events to Intercom JavaScript or via API.

2) Once you send events to Intercom, you can trigger outgoing conversation from Outbound -> Chats -> New

3) Set-up following settings in the Rules section:

@kevin b​ mentioned Q2 planning, as far as I know, that was related to continuously sending outbound messages based on events (Right now not possible to trigger outbound messages continuously when the event appears in Intercom).

Hi Roy,

Thanks for your suggestions.

I tried what what you have suggested earlier but it is not exactly what I want.

The message is sent to the users on event, but the team inbox is not triggered. The message cannot be found in the team inbox either. We need our team to be notified when the event occurred, and ideally the message should be auto assign to one of the team members to follow up with the users.

Any suggestions or ideas will be much appreciated.

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for your advice.

As per what I have replied to Roy below, unfortunately this doesn't work for my case as I need our team to be notified when the event occurred and the message should appear in the team inbox. It will be good if the message can be auto assigned to one of our team members to follow up with the users.

Any ideas how to make this work in Intercom?

Thanks Roy.

I found an easier solution using the Intercom forwarding email address, where I will send an email on behalf of the user to the team's forwarding email address.

The only drawback of this is any reply from the team will be delivered via email to the users. Ideally, I would like to reply to be delivered to the users using the standard Intercom notification rules, https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/250-how-does-intercom-deliver-push-email-chat-and-post-notifications/p>

I don't suppose there is any settings to achieve what I want, right?

@user976​ , This will create an e-mail conversation, the reply will go to the user's e-mail address instead of the in-app chat.

The best way is to create a User-initiated conversation via API.

@roy s11​ Yes, I agree with you creating conversation using the API will be the best. But I think the OAuth authentication is a bit overkill for a simple integration like this, especially when this is supposed to be an internal (not public) app integration. I was hoping that Intercom have simple integration using API key.

@user976​ , You do not need OAuth to create a conversation via API.

1) Go to https://developers.intercom.com/ -> Your apps

2) Then click on "New App"

3) 4) Select created app from the list (Project 1).

5) You can find here the bearer token for API authorization

6) Postman configuration example to create user-initiated conversation via API.

I hope this will be helpful, Just let me know if you have any questions about API.