Outbound

We are seeing an issue with Intercom outbound welcome messages in our Flutter Android app where the same outbound message is rendered multiple times repeatedly in the conversation/preview screen.Instead of showing the welcome message once, Intercom displays the exact same content duplicated 2–3+ times in the same thread/UI.Note:Issue comes in Android version 14 and 15. No issue in Android 16.  

Hi everyone,I’m running into a frustrating glitch with the email builder and could really use some help or workarounds.The Issue: Whenever I send a newsletter (even just a test email to myself), the template's background colour completely disappears. To make matters worse, the system seems to inject random blocks of alternative colours out of nowhere, which completely breaks and "crashes" the newsletter's layout.What I’ve already tried to fix it: Custom Templates: I built brand new custom templates from scratch to see if the original was corrupted. Inspecting Settings: I went through every single style setting to ensure nothing is left on "default" and everything has a specifically assigned colour. Despite all of this, the layout still breaks every time it hits the inbox.Has anyone else experienced this colour-stretching/disappearing bug recently? Is there a hidden setting or a specific CSS clash in the new editor causing this?Thanks in advance for any insights!

Hi Intercom Team,I’m writing to express my frustration regarding an ongoing issue that I first reported on April 11 and followed up on June 15. The issue involves IME (Input Method Editor) languages like Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, where pressing CTRL + ENTER to send a message causes the last character of the input to be duplicated and sent again.On April 11, Emily from your team responded with the following:"Hey again Eric! 👋This was actually recently tested and confirmed as a bug by our engineers so it has been added to our backlog to be fixed.For greater context, our product team prioritizes bugs based on the severity of the issue and how widespread of an experience it is with customers. To provide insight on expectations, issues like this may not be actioned for some weeks. This timeline is based on the team's current existing log of issues and upcoming feature releases which is subject to change.So what happens now?Now that your issue has been logged to be fixed, I will wrap u

Hello folks! I’m trying to workout how to (if possible) create a follow-up Ticket when a NPS Survey is below a certain threshold.  The NPS Survey is currently being sent up to once every 90 days, and my intention is potentially follow-up with user’s based on their response.  I want agents to be able to review the NPS Survey response, and optionally contact the user based on the feedback given in the response.  Therefore, I was thinking the best way to go about this would be to create a ticket containing the NPS Score and NPS comment, and then the agent will be prompted to review (and optionally contact) the user.  However, I can’t work out how to get this to work via a Series; I can trigger a webhook (but that doesn’t seem capable of creating a ticket). I feel like I could probably use an Action, but I can’t work out how to trigger an action via Series.  Has anyone come across anything simila

I add an outgoing post every month, to let our clients know of upcoming Windows updates / server reboots.I remove these posts from the Outbound > Messages section, but they remain visible and accessible in the front-end Intercom messages that are visible to our clients.Is there a way to have these removed?Thanks​​​​​​​Mark

My company has used Intercom for years but we have not yet made use of subscription types. We have hundreds, if not thousands, of customers who have opted out of all emails so they aren’t receiving account related emails. The only real option I see is to use the subscription opt-in form but we can’t force customers fill that out. Because of that, the subscription type opt-in for account level updates isn’t reliable. What’s the best way that I can make sure customers are receiving account level updates? We do currently use in-app messaging to account for people who have unsubscribed.

I want to ask how people feel about the Support in that specific interaction, and how they feel about our product overall. I can’t add two CSATs with intercom because one overrides the next. Is there an App you recommend to get this feel? 

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.

We are B2B so it's really challenging to set appropriate wait times without being able to do business days only. Does anyone have any rules of thumb or ways to calculate so that timing makes sense?

Hey, I am looking to create an internal process for one of our teams based on when a user reaches a point in an outbound messaging series and have hit a wall. In the series I have a message encouraging a customer to book a call, when they get this message, if they haven’t booked I want to trigger an internal process where a member of our team proactively calls the customer. I have added a tag to this message, however I don’t know how to assign a task to my team to do the follow-up action.  Not sure if this can be done via a workflow eg. Person Tagged “X” > Assign To “X Team” > Add Note Can anyone help? 

When a tour step's "click target" is a button that opens a modal (Radix UI Dialog), the tour doesn't advance into the modal. The next step's target lives inside the modal, but: Clicking the tour tooltip after the modal opens dismisses the modal (treated as outside-click). The modal traps focus / sets pointer-events: none on <body>, which blocks the Intercom tooltip from receiving clicks. Is there a supported way to: Have a tour step target an element inside a modal that opens dynamically, or Pause the tour, let the user open the modal, and resume on a target inside it? Our targets already use data-intercom-target. Tested on the latest Messenger.

I have successfully been able to integrate Product Tour for most of the platform. However,  have a section within my platform where a workflow needs to be completed by the users.The workflow comprises of 4 steps and it’s a wizard style experience. all the 4 steps have the same URL and just the content on the page changes upon completing a step but the URL remains same.Issue: The pointers which are meant to appear on the step 2 of the workflow appears on the Step 1 itself. The CSS elements are not visible on the Step 1 but still the pointers appear.I have tried attributing the HTML with intercom <div> as well, the buttons are even highlighted in Pink within the tour editor after the attribution. It means the attribution worked, Despite this, the pointers appear on Step 1 instead of Step 2.  

After starting a conversation or sending/responding in an email thread within intercom, is there a way to see it actually in the “sent” folder within outlook? I feel as though I cannot confirm if all my messages are actually being sent or leaving from my email address. I don’t like not being able to access outgoing messages from within outlook if they're sent from intercom but using the same email address..? Does anyone have any insight on this?

We have unique URLs for every page for a user. For example, User A home page URL is: toddleapp.com/platform/32476/unitPlansUser B home page URL is: toddleapp.com/platform/99172/unitPlans Will product tour work here?

I’m trying to setup an onboarding checklist in which multiple steps will launch product tours. I have the first step setup and functioning fine, but the subsequent steps/product tours I cannot seem to configure to launch when/where it is needed. Here’s the issue:Our customer’s URLs are : subdomain.domain.com …..When a customer creates their account and logs in for the first time, they are brought to their homepage. The checklist appears and the first item in the checklist launches a product tour on that page. There’s no dynamic aspect to that URL, so we can simply setup the “Use your tour everywhere” setting to use {subdomain}.domain.comThat tour has them create a case/project in their dashboard, which generates a new page/URL. The issue arises here, because that URL is different every time, for every user, however, the URL itself is not unique to a user, meaning any user in that dashboard (which there are typically multiple) can access that case/project/URL. The URL ends up being some

I’m using series to promote webinars / events. Such a series won’t be relevant after a specific date. I can set a date to stop a single email or post from being sent out, but not pause a series? Please provide this feature so that I don’t send outdated information out to customers if I forget to manually pause a series.

How can I set up the Product Tour where it only happens on 1 page?I’ve set up the Product Tour where it should only appear on a specific URL, however, in the preview, I noticed it starts in other pages even after I finish the entire tour or skip it from the previous page. It seems to start with every new page I navigate to.  

Hey, we have a React Native app that uses Intercom via RN package. I can’t seem to press the top right X button to close the survey when viewing the survey from a customer demo account. Any ideas? Thanks!

The email composer/reply pane is too small.FinAI acknowledges that, as of Feb 2026, “The email composer in Intercom doesn't have a built-in option to resize or make the composition pane larger within a thread. The composer size is fixed in the interface.” It is especially limiting if you add screenshots, or have a long reply to review before sending to a customer.It would be more helpful if you could do a pop-out window for composing an email reply to a thread, thanks.

It would be great if it were possible to download an email distribution list BEFORE sending the email. The preview doesn’t really help if you’re trying to be sure who all the recipients are. This goes beyond if the users are subscribed or not, it would be very helpful to verify the filters are correct and that all the expected recipients are included. 

Hi everyone,If we have an outbound message that was already sent to users and they’ve received it, is there any way to update or change that message for those same users?We tried creating a new version of the outbound message, but it only applies to new users. Users who already received the original message continue to see the old content.Is there any option in Intercom to modify or replace or delete those previously delivered outbound messages?Thanks in advance 🙏

Hi Intercom Community, i’m having some difficulties creating a product tour. Quick question: Is it possible to create a tooltip in an Intercom product tour that isn’t anchored to a specific element, but still lets users click anywhere on the page to advance the tour? Thanks in advance for your help!

first try at a product tour. when i preview the tour, i'm routed to the correct url, i sign into my webb app, but the tour never displays. what newbie goof am i making?

I have spent some days trying to set up a product tour for our coursebuilder and it is working in very inconsistent ways. In our coursebuilder, the user is guided through a step-by-step process of specifying a target audience, uploading documents etc. If I use a single product tour for all the steps across pages, this does not work as elements are displayed too early, before the page in question is accessed. I found a workaround by setting up multiple product tours but they can disable each other, even when I specify a different start URL. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.Another problem is that essentially the product tour Preview function does not work with our coursebuilder, and neither does the link feature if I enable “use tour everywhere”. My only option to test the product tour is to assign it to my account and two other admin accounts. I then log into three different accounts once a day to have one runthrough each. If one part of the tour is not displayed, I have to wait to th

We’re trying to use the CSV filtering feature in the outbound chat to match phone numbers with our audience. But the process (tagging) takes way too long, 1+ hour for just 1 user, and still shows 0 people in the tags list. On the other hand, using the name as the matching attribute took only ~3min for the same user. I don’t think this is a format issue because the CSV file was created in notepad not Excel (which uses scientific notations). The Phone attribute is a text.