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Hi everyone! 👋I'm curious about how you automate customer communication in your companies.What tools or platforms do you use for automating chats, emails, or social media? Which processes have you successfully automated, and how has it impacted your business outcomes? Do you have any tips on best practices for automation while still maintaining a personal touch with customers?I'd love to hear your advice and success stories! Let's share our experiences and ideas! 🌟

Hi 👋🏼 We’re looking at updating some of our T&Cs and would like to use in-app messaging instead of an email to collect consent from our users. Has anyone done a similar project before and how did you execute it? 👀We’d want to target the messages only to admin users, track their consent status (with a time stamp) and be able to export a list of users (who have / haven’t given consent, have / haven’t received the message etc.).Thanks in advance for anyone who might be able to help here 🌸

We have a custom user attribute "sub_expires" of the type "Date". We would like to target all users whose sub_expires falls within the next 24 hours to send a reminder. However, none of the date filters seem to do what we want. Translating our need to a relative date would be "(sub_expires in) less than 1 day", but the relative filter is "days ago". So we target "less than -1 days ago", but this segment is returning everyone with the property. If we target "exactly 0 days ago", it returns everyone who expired today.If we target "exactly -1 days ago", it still returns everyone who expired today (we would expect this to return zero as the negative is "exactly tomorrow").If we target "less than -1 days ago" we get people expiring in 2025. Are negative filters not allowed? Is there an issue with our data type? Am I interpreting these filters incorrectly? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

We are trying to configure the ticketing system so that it can always remain accessible in a tab, allowing users to only submit tickets while simultaneously having access to chat. Could you please advise us on how we should set it up to achieve this functionality?Additionally, we would like to know what should be configured for times when the support team is unavailable, or when the queue is too busy.We’ve already set up the working hours, but it hasn’t made a difference.Thank you for your help.

I am getting quite a few Errors and Warnings on my Technical SEO site audit in regards to the help center articles I have published to the public and set to index. The biggest issue is that there are some articles coming back with hreflang conflicts within page source. I am wondering how to fix this so my site health can increase and the google bots are able to crawl everything appropriately.  Also, it seems all of my help center articles have outgoing internal links that contain nofollow attribute (to our main domain and subdomains). This issue says there is a rel="nofollow" attribute that is telling the crawlers not to follow the link, which is NOT recommended for SEO purposes, and rather should let the link juice flow freely.  I recently made all my articles visible to the public and a ton of these types of Errors, Warnings, and Notices are now appearing on my Site Audit and hurting my site health. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Hello,I am building up a suite of knowledge articles and have been adding alt-tag information wherever possible.I wanted to know if Intercom automatically adds a null alt tag to any images that do not have alt tag data added or if I need to do this manually myself?Just to note, null tag data is added into any alt tag if you want a screen reader to skip the image altogether. That way for any decorative images, for example, you don’t need to add a detailed description as it will not assist with the overall comprehension for the user and it also means that the user doesn’t get annoying and useless information when using a screen reader.Thanks, Emma

Hi there, for some time we’ve had an issue when a user tries to upload (via the attachment button) or paste an image into the chat, it instantly shows a “Couldn’t send” error, as shown below. I’d appreciate any help in resolving this issue.  

I have multiple conversations from the same customer. I would like to merge them into a single conversation for easier tracking.  

How can I get the content data for a user via API or SDK? 

Hi, in the article Transactional messaging with Intercom it is suggested that Order Confirmation mails should also be sent with it.I would like to add a list of the products ordered in such an order confirmation, but unfortunately I cannot find a way to do this.Currently I send an Intercom event when an order is received and add a string to the metadata that contains an HTML table of the products. However, the HTML is not rendered in the mail, but only displayed as a string.Is there a solution to my problem? What is best practice here? 

 I’m using `Intercom(“showArticle”, articleId)` to show article content inside the Intercom widget. Under certain circumstances, after calling `Intercom(‘showArticle’,  articleId)`, instead of seeing the expected article, I instead get a “broken” version of the home screen. In particular, The bottom navigation tabs are missing The help article links are inactive (clicking them does nothing) My best theory so far is that there’s a race condition in the widget between loading the home screen content and the article content. My evidence to support this theory isThe “broken” home state opens in the article frame (wide container, no navigation tabs) This state only (or exceedingly often) happens when calling `showArticle` before the messenger has been opened during the session. In th

If we set up a workflow with the “When a teammate changes the state of a conversation" trigger, will that include conversations that FIN helps resolve? 

Hi there, We are working with the CSAT and are beyond happy for internal use.  We would like to follow up with our happy customers and by email ask them to leave a review at a 3rd party site in order to share their experience and forward our not-so-happy customers to our Customer Succes Team. I am yet to find a way to set this up - Am I missing something in the Workflows or am I looking in the wrong place?

Hey everyone,We recently changed the way we provide support to our users. We provide ticket support to Free Subscription users and Chat Support to our Paid users.What we did is that we created two workflows for each type of users but we wanted to keep Fin AI as a first instance of support because we have around 30 % resolution rate.So we have two similar workflows with the only difference that in one we are converting the chats to tickets automatically. They look like this.  However, now we are facing an issue where a lot of users are abusing the bot by typing “Speak to human”, “Talk to agent” or similar which leads to a scenario where the bot is bypassing the workflows and it’s directly transferring this to a Customer Support agent which is not intended. In the workflows we have different paths where we

There are actions that users of our app can’t do on their own and that they need to reach out to our support team to ask them to do for them. This is clearly stated in our help center articles, when that’s the case. So, now they reach out, and there’s Fin (who we call “Alvar”) trying to answer the question. Only, he tells the customer reaching out to him, that they need to contact the support team, which is what they just did 🤯.See this example (i’ve got MANY more)Surely, Fin should be thought that he is a member of the support team, and when he thinks he should tell the customer to contact support, what he really should do is to assign the conversation to a human and do nothing.  Anyone experience the same issue? Any practical workarounds? What we do now is that we have human

We were told that Intercom was accessible for screen readers, but in testing them, we are getting errors. In addition, the colors Intercom sets for hover states and some of the text do not have the appropriate color/contrast, and I don't know how to force those colors. there are only two colors I can change in the Intercom settings, but there are many more color combinations that need to be fixed. I tried by doing it in CSS, but the edits are not sticking. We are going live in a few days with a new site and this is throwing a wrench into everything. Help!!

Is there any plan to support RTL in outbound Email templates (and outbound emails in general)?I tried using the RTL tag in HTML but it does not apply/save.

When I post something it used to show up automatically to the users. Now i see that it is getting queued up as messages and the user need to go to the message queue and click on that new message for the post to show up on the portal. Is this something changed in intercom, that changed its behavior? our portal users do not click on messages that often and am afraid they will miss the posts we publish for them. Did someone else see this behavior?

Identical to this issue but with new, Ruby flavor! :I updated the gem and made sure the SDK is set up for the latest version of the API (2.11), but I still get an issue with saving the created contact. I tried pulling the contact by ID, just to be sure it exists before the save. Sure enough, it’s there and in the dashboard but won’t update. Did anyone ever figure out a way around this?I’m using Rails 6.1.4, and the latest Intercom gem.

Dear Intercom team,We are having a problem opening attachment with document type .xlsx. These have been added as described in the unsupported file types. See image,This worked previously, but for some inexplicable reason it no longer works. Can you help us?Groet, Gwendolyn  

How can I adapt the email templates so that emails present correctly in dark mode?

We have created 2 email campaigns/series and we need to link an Unbounce landing page to them. I’m new to this and need suggestions on how to proceed. I reviewed other existing campaigns and I see that the audiences are filtered by creating a tag. I don’t know what to do next. Thanks for your help

We are using the startSurvey method in the intercom/messenger-js-sdk@0.0.6 package to trigger surveys in the app. After calling this method, it takes a delay of 5-7 seconds to call fetch_active_survey. Is there a way to reduce this delay and make it faster so that the survey is visible within 1-2 seconds in our app?

In our intercom test environment we have the same custom attribute “x” on both people and companies to allow us to segment our customers/companies. When i try to create the same in our production env i am able to create the attribute in people, but when i try to create it also for companies i get an error “you can not create the atrribute “x” on companies since this already exists in people? 

Would it be possible to change the waiting on customer status to on hold, and then you have the option of putting waiting on customer as a sub status? instead of having waiting on customer for all the on hold selections.