News and Updates

Hey Interconnectors! Our Customer Education team is busy working on our 2023 roadmap for Academy!We’re also hoping to experiment with some short snackable tips and tricks videos for all of y’all.  So - we’d love to know: What type of content/subjects you’d like to see more of/less of?What skills or impact would you love to unlock for your role or team with Intercom? We'd also love to know what high-impact Intercom tips do you know which you'd love to share with the world? Drop your wishlist in this thread, there’s no such thing as a bad idea! Cheers,The Customer Education Team 

Monthly Product Updates! 👀 📤 Introducing Messenger-First Tickets 🚀 Our most customizable Messenger to date is here 🪝 Do more with webhooks on API 2.6 ⚙️ Build better bots with the new visual bot builder 💡 New features in Tooltips 📬 Now you can remove conversation history from support emails 🔐 Now you can protect your workspace with 2FA, Google Sign-On, and Teammate Activity Logs  

The Intercom User Groups are back!🥳 We're excited to announce we are launching the second edition of our User Groups, after a successful first round over the summer. We’ll be in London, Paris and Berlin to give you a chance to meet your local community of Intercom users and learn how to get the most out of the platform. Why attend?Meet and network with local Intercom users and Intercom product teamGet insights into Intercom’s latest release such as the new Messenger, Tickets and ChecklistsFind out how other Intercom customers are leveraging Intercom with our customer-led sessions Find out more here:Berlin - Nov 9Paris - Nov 15London - Nov 16 

We hope you enjoyed our New at Intercom event today. Here is a recap of the new products and features we announced 👀 💬 Enhance customer engagement with the new Messenger Move beyond messaging to create meaningful customer experiences with our most customizable Messenger yet – it’s code free. Convert more visitors. Onboard and activate new customers. Support existing customers at speed. 🎟️ Resolve complex customer questions with tickets Empower your teams to solve complex customer problems with tickets – right from the Inbox. You’ll be able to reduce costs by consolidating your support tools, and stop switching between chat & tickets software with our Messenger-first ticketing solution. 🤖 Build powerful bots with visual bot builder Enable your teams to build bots easily and efficiently using the new visual bot builder – no code needed! These powerful bots will help your customers help themselves and reduce your inbound support volume. 📰 Keep your customers updated with News Share in-context company updates and product announcements with your customers, directly in the Messenger, with News. With granular targeting, you’ll be able to personalize the Newsfeed across the customer lifecycle. 💡 Drive product education and adoption with Tooltips Educate your customers and drive adoption of specific parts of your app with Tooltips - the latest way to communicate with your customers in a contextual and non-disruptive way. ✅ Guide your users with Checklists - in beta Onboard users onto your product or a new feature effectively at scale with Intercom Checklists - a new way to deliver contextual and personalized guidance to users who are in your product that sets them on a path to adoption and long term engagement.

Monthly Product Updates! 👀 💡 New feature updates released to the Next-Gen Inbox 🚀 Manage assignments at scale with custom conversation prioritization 

Registration is now open for New at Intercom Event. Join us on October 12th!This jam-packed virtual event will include: Exciting new feature releases—and our biggest Messenger updates everValuable insights from industry expertsCustomer engagement tips, trends, and predictions for support and marketing teams This is one you don't want to miss! 🤩Reserve your spot

Monthly Product Updates! 💡 🚀 New in Surveys: embed surveys in email & live previewing 🔍 Now you can reuse bot content by linking Custom Bots 💬 Learn how to use Dynamic Content to create highly targeted and personalized chats! 

 Monthly Product Updates! 💡 📤 Now you can add dynamic subject lines to your emails to increase your email open rates! 🚀 Introducing the fastest, most effective, and powerful Inbox built for support at scale. 🎯 The latest version of our API v2.5 is now available! 🔐 New permissions for managing teammates are now available! 💬 Two-way SMS for higher engagement and results is the new feature you'll love! 📣 Introducing Custom Actions and Custom Objects in bots🔍 Create a more personalized support experience with our updated sender address settings 

EMEA User Group Event - Thanks for joining! Joined by customers in London, Berlin and Paris, we had a great time at our first round of user group events in Europe in June! By creating a platform for our customers to engage with each other and exchange their experiences, we learned a lot about your needs as well, so we’d like to sincerely thank everyone who participated in one of the three sessions! We’re especially grateful to our guest speakers Aaron Strickland from Perkbox, Karl Villanueva from Ostrom, Theau de Maupeou from Shine, and Marc-Antoine de Morel from Luko for making each of these events a success! 🤩 

Smarter Intercom bots with Custom Actions & Custom Objects & SMS! 🥳 Announcing the next big things from Intercom that will help deliver better experiences to your customers - Custom Actions & Custom Objects in bots and SMS 😍 Custom Actions and Custom Objects in botsOur bots just got a whole lot smarter 🙌 - now you can integrate external data to boost the effectiveness of your Custom and Resolution bots to help solve customer queries. This means you can solve common queries that require data from other systems and use automation to answer questions like: I need to change my delivery date What's my latest gas meter reading?When will I get paid?  You'll benefit from quicker resolution times and shorter support queues, while your customers can more easily self-serve their query and avoid the frustrating wait for an agent 🙌 Say goodbye to dead-end text messages with our truly two-way SMS! Engage, activate, and connect with customers like never before. Our two-way SMS lets you have back-and-forth customer conversations, and send real-time promotional offers, transactional messaging, and more.   Here’s why you’ll love Intercom SMS: Higher engagement: With a 98% average open rate, SMS is the perfect channel to actively engage with and connect to your customers—wherever they are.Conversational experience: The best thing about two-way SMS is having your customers’ full attention. Use it to chat with them directly from the Intercom Inbox.Personalized and targeted: We capture and store your customer and event data for you—giving you automatic access to powerful SMS targeting, message personalization, robust reporting, and more.One solution for all teams: Intercom SMS is designed to meet the needs of all your teams - from marketing to sales to support, all teams leveraging SMS to connect with their customers will see the immense benefits this channel can offer.Self-serve onboarding: It’s simple to get started with Intercom’s native SMS tool, and instantly reap the benefits of self-serve onboarding, text message reporting, consent management, keyword handling, and more.Omnichannel experiences: Create seamless omnichannel campaigns in our Series tool, and connect them across SMS, in-app messages, Product Tours, email, and more. Check out SMS to learn more.

Last chance to register for the Event: The next big thing (or two) from Intercom Wednesday, June 22nd, 20228:00am - 9:00am PDT  /  4:00 pm - 5:00pm BST Register Now Join us for a hour-long webinar where we'll unveil and demo two exciting new features that mark a big step forward in customer engagement. Then, stick around for a virtual live Q&A—you’ll get to hear from Intercom leaders and more about how to scale the experiences that create loyal customers. 

Here's a roundup of May product changes, big and small, so you never miss an update! 🚀 Streamline your work with bulk actions on Articles- Now you can manage your articles at scale! 💡 Intercom Surveys updates - Advanced Reporting, Branching Logic, and mobile survey codes 🔎 Embed YouTube Shorts in Articles 📱 Add Images to Mobile Push Messages  now available 🇦🇺 Australian Data Hosting now available at Intercom 

Next-Gen Inbox is now LIVE 🥳 The fastest, most effective and powerful Inbox built for support at scale! How is it next-gen? Well, it's blazingly fast, highly configurable and offers a full keyboard-first experience! ✅ To find out more on how to best make use of the new Inbox, check out this article ✅ For an in-depth walk and a closer look at the new Inbox experience, register for our upcoming webinars:Tuesday, June 14th at 11 AM PT / 6PM GMT- register Thursday, June 16th at 10AM GMT- register 💡Important note: Your workspace will be automatically transitioned to the new Inbox experience on 20 July, so for the smoothest experience we suggest that you switch over in advance out of this date.  

📣 You are invited! FREE In-Person Event for Intercom Super Users! 😍 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Intercom User Group in Europe this summer —and we’d love for you to join us! We'll be in London, Paris and Berlin to give you a chance to meet your local community of Intercom users and learn how to get the most out of the platform! Why attend?Meet and network with local Intercom users and Intercom product teamGet insights into Intercom’s 2022 product roadmap and beyondFind out how other Intercom customers are leveraging Intercom with our customer led sessions Find out more here:London - May 25Berlin - June 15Paris - June 16 Hurry up to register , places are limited! 💡 

Add Images to Mobile Push Messages! 📲  Move away from just using plain text in mobile push messages. Add images to make mobile push more contextual, personalized and engaging. 🎉 Grab your customer’s attention even if they are outside your mobile app. As they say, ‘a picture speaks a thousand words’.  Available on both Android and iOS, you can now add images to your mobile push messages to make them more engaging and increase their open rates when delivered to the user’s device’s notification center.  You would need to upgrade to the latest mobile SDK to use this feature.  To learn more about image specifications, visit the Help Center.   

Intercom Surveys has 3 updates 🎉 - Advanced Reporting, Branching Logic, and mobile survey codes Since the release of Surveys in March, over 1.25 million users have been reached! We’re seeing Surveys helping our customers understand and get closer to their customers. To continue this momentum, we’ve built three new exciting Survey features.  Advanced Reporting for Surveys: Unlock powerful insights faster than ever before by slicing and dicing your survey responses using all your customer data within Intercom. Segment your NPS® scores by region, churn reasons by subscription type, and more - enabling you to better understand your customers and quickly take action. The days of exporting, formatting, and importing survey data are over - easily access all collected survey data in one placeRun your NPS® surveys and follow-up workflows via Intercom. Plus, with our new NPS®  reporting, drill-down even further to understand the scoresVisualize and explore collected data with ease by customizing your time frame and filtering based on user and company attributes to unlock new customer insightsLeverage insights alongside Intercom's rich customer data to automate targeted messages, tours, campaigns, and more Read more here. Branching LogicDesign responsive Surveys with Branching Logic - sending customers down different paths depending on their answers to previous questions. With simple if, then statements, change the flow of your survey based on a customers’ answersExperience higher response rates by showing questions that resonate more with your customersRespect your customers’ time - only ask questions that are important to themEncourage your customers to take action by displaying contextual and compelling thank you messages and next steps Read more here. Triggering Surveys via code in your mobile appLaunch surveys from a button anywhere in your mobile app. Choose where you want to engage with users easily and in-context to capture relevant feedback. Get in-context feedback from users wherever they are inside your mobile appUsers can easily take the survey natively in your mobile app with a simple click of a button Persistent survey buttons enable users to choose when to take a surveyDepending on your mobile app design and users’ journeys, choose where you would like the survey to be triggered in your mobile appRead more here. Net Promoter®, NPS®, NPS Prism®, and the NPS-related emoticons are registered trademarks of Bain & Company, Inc., Satmetrix Systems, Inc., and Fred Reichheld. Net Promoter Score℠ and Net Promoter System℠ are service marks of Bain & Company, Inc., Satmetrix Systems, Inc., and Fred Reichheld.

Here's a roundup of April product changes, big and small, so you never miss an update! 🔎 Improvements to reporting on Articles 📧 Create highly targeted and personalized emails at scale with Dynamic Content 💬 Manage Instagram messages in Intercom to unify your customer communications 

Introducing Diana, your new Community Manager! 🥳 Hey Connectors 👋 Allow me to introduce myself - I’m Diana, Intercom’s new Community Manager!  I'm delighted to start my new role with Interconnected and I can’t wait to work with everyone to make this a space of which we can all be proud. You can expect to see a lot of me in the community over the coming weeks as I get to know our Connectors and look to kick off some exciting new initiatives. If there's anything I can do to help you make the most of Interconnected, let me know - looking forward to connecting with you all! 

Create highly targeted and personalized emails at-scale with Dynamic Content Create tailored and personalized emails across the entire customer lifecycle - offering up the right content at the right time with our newest feature - Dynamic Content.  What are the benefits?  Time savings: Reduce the time your team is spending creating tailored emails with our scalable no-code solution.Strong targeting: Leverage your existing customer data in Intercom to create highly targeted rules- ensuring you’re sending the right information to the right audience at the right time.Personalized and engaging content: Create timely, relevant communications that your customers are more likely to engage with. Check out this article to learn how to get started.  

Here's a roundup of March product changes, big and small, so you never miss an update! 🔎 Tag Articles for easier content management 📞 Ditch long hold times and give customers the choice to move to the Messenger with Switch  💬 Meet Intercom Surveys - don’t just ask customers' opinions, act on them 📧 Elevate your designs with multicolumn email layouts 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Language Support 🔎 Tag Answers for easier content management 📊 We’ve released a new version of the Content Stats Export API 

Elevate your designs with multicolumn email layouts You can now enjoy the increased flexibility and simplicity of designing emails with our new multi-column email layouts and editor improvements.Design emails faster and with ease by inserting multicolumn layouts directly into your email via our editor - edit these layouts to best suit your needs.Preview how your email will look on web and mobile directly in the email editor.We’ve added an undo/redo button in the email editor as well. Go to your Outbound home and create a new email to explore these new features.

Meet Intercom Surveys - don’t just ask customers opinions, act on them.From nurture campaigns to onboarding experiences—and much more—Surveys helps you capture and automatically act on valuable customer insights.Here’s why you will love Intercom Surveys:Increased Response Rate: Reach your customers in the moment by sending surveys on web and mobile*Enrich Customer Data: Save your customers’ responses to survey questions as user attributes in Intercom - use this data to trigger campaigns, provide customer-facing teams with additional information, and moreDrive Engagement: Use Series and Surveys to create personalized workflows to drive action based on customers’ unique needs and preferencesStrong Targeting: Leverage your existing customer data in Intercom to ensure you’re targeting the right customersSimple and Customizable: It’s quick and easy to create surveys that match the look and feel of your brandDetailed Reporting: Analyze survey results right on our platform or export your survey results via CSV Check out Surveys, or visit our help center to learn more. *In order to use mobile surveys, ensure you are on a minimum SDK version of 12.0.0 for Android & iOS.

Ditch long hold times and give customers the choice to move to the Messenger with Switch 📞 ➡️ 💬With Switch, it’s not just possible, but easy to move inbound call volume to messaging — built to handle support at any scale, and reduce wait times for your customers.Why Switch?It’s fast: Customers want answers fast, and using Switch means they don’t have to wait on hold—they can just seamlessly switch to messaging for quick answersIt’s easy: Your customers can simply select the option to switch when they call It’s cost-effective: Moving calls to messaging is more cost-effective and more efficient for your team, so you can scale support without hiring more peopleIt’s personal: You can provide a personalized experience when they reach the MessengerIt works right away: Switch works with any phone provider, and is completely code-free To learn more, visit our help center, or check out Switch in Settings.

Raise your hand if you're as excited for New at Intercom as our leaders 🙋 Watch the video  to hear what the hype is all about and you can register here!  PS. It's free. And if you can't make it, register anyway– we'll send you a recording.

We have updated outbound messaging CSV reports! We’re making it easier for you to uncover valuable insights about how your messages are performing. You can now choose from two Customer Engagement CSV reports:  “Detailed Stats” CSV report provides a detailed breakdown of all the users that received your messages“Message Overview” CSV report that provides an overall aggregate stats view of a workspace’s outbound message along with auditing data  *The previous Customer Engagement CSV report is now called “Detailed Stats” CSV report. The additional field, ‘first_event’, was added to the receipts.csv file to allow customers to easily aggregate messaging data and metrics using the export. See your Customer Engagement report here.