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Intercom Chat

Enables businesses to deliver fast support at scale and provide a customer experience across automation and human support.

Made by Ciaran Lee, David Barrett, Des Traynor, Eoghan McCabe

  • Help Desk

  • Live Chat

  • lifecycle-emails

  • in-app-messaging

  • Email Marketing

  • Research

  • Customer Chat

  • Customer Support

  • communications

  • mail-notifier

  • site-help

  • supports

  • support-ticket-system

  • CRM

What is Intercom Chat?

Intercom is a customer communication platform that empowers businesses to engage with their users in a personalized and targeted manner. The platform provides detailed insights into user behavior, allowing companies to tailor their interactions based on factors such as user region, browser, and local time. By inserting a simple code snippet into a web or mobile app, businesses can integrate an interactive help widget that enables users to connect directly with the support team. Intercom's segmentation capabilities enable businesses to send automated, behavior-driven messages and in-app notifications based on user actions, engagement levels, and attributes like subscription plan. For example, when a user first accesses a new feature, Intercom can proactively provide additional information or solicit feedback, enhancing the user experience The platform's integration with popular tools like Slack, MailChimp, and Stripe, as well as its robust API, allow for seamless data and workflow management. Paid plans also provide access to HTML-templated emails, further enhancing the customization and personalization of customer communications Intercom's comprehensive customer service solution aims to deliver efficient and personal experiences, empowering businesses to scale their customer support without compromising quality. By automating routine interactions, the platform frees up the support team to focus on more complex and higher-value conversations, ultimately improving customer satisfaction and reducing costs

Highlights

  • Detailed user behavior insights (region, browser, local time)
  • Interactive help widget for direct user-support team communication
  • Automated, behavior-driven messaging and in-app notifications based on user actions and attributes
  • Integration with popular business tools and robust API for data and workflow management
  • HTML-templated emails for customized customer communications (paid plans)

Platforms

  • Mobile Android
  • Online
  • Mobile iPhone
  • Desktop Chromebook
  • Desktop Mac
  • Desktop Windows
  • Web
  • iPhone
  • On-Premise Windows
  • Desktop Linux
  • Mobile iPad
  • On-Premise Linux
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
  • iOS
  • Android

Languages

  • English

Features

    • Helpdesk ticketing

    • User Profiles

    • Live chat for websites

    • Onboarding

    • Knowledge Base

    • Canned responses

    • Cloud-Based CRM

    • User tracking

    • Social media integration

    • Chat Bot

    • Customer Segmentation

    • Encrypted Chat

    • Live Support Chat

    • Email automation

    • Knowledge Base structuring