Is it possible to have a link in a survey open the messenger?

Question

I'm setting up a survey to be used as our cancellation flow so that when someone clicks "cancel my plan" in their account the Intercom survey opens. In the intro screen, I first want to make them aware that they have alternatives to cancelling like pausing their plan. I have a link that says "Chat with someone now and I want that to open up the Messenger, ideally with a custom bot that I can set up that knows this is a cancellation request.

Racheal · Accepted Answer

Hey @liz h​Racheal from the support engineer team here&#128075;While there isn't a built in way to use a hyperlink to open the Messenger, you could send the link to a specific page on your site and implement the Intercom('showNewMessage'); method on that page. This way when the user clicks on the link they will land on a page that has the Messenger already open. Some customers will create a blank page solely for the purpose of housing the Messenger for this use case. Using this method the Messenger will open as if a new conversation was just created.

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