Good Knowledge Base. It would benefit from additional editing capabilities. I write articles for a system KB, and Intercom gives our users an easy way to access that content without leaving our application UI. I just wish some more editing/formatting improvements were introduced. E.g., table cells can't be easily aligned, or the posts (pop-up messages) don't display exactly how you anticipated while writing the draft, for example, if you add some extra lines to distribute the content, those are not always added when the message appears.

Pricing is designed by scam artists I trusted Intercom for years. But when you investigate the invoices, you will find hidden charges. The best one is where they link pricing to the term 'active users'. In the small print, they write their own definition of 'active users' which includes non-active users from 90 days ago! These are the pricing tactics of true scam artists. For example, If you have 200 chats this month with no other messages sent. But you sent 1 email campaign 90 days ago to 5800 people. They will charge you the rate for 6000 'active' users for the current month. Buyer beware, as it is very difficult to stop using Intercom once you have integrated into your business. We have finally decided to bite the bullet and move to another tool at less than 20% of the cost.

Poor interview process Poor interview process, do not get back to you unless you reach out yourself. Nice way to leave candidates hanging!

Easy to set up. Big impact immediately. We set up our Rippl chatbot using Intercom in only a few hours, and it has handled many thousands of conversations with users so far. There are plenty of guides and tutorials. Adding it to our landing page was easy as we only needed to add a few lines of code. We are now able to focus on handling the complicated questions that really need human answers.

Charging outrageous amounts for tools… Charging outrageous amounts for tools that are needed in small companies, and the platform is full of glitches, malfunctions, slowdowns, if I found something better for my company I would absolutely move right away. Plus, the android app is simple rubbish, unusable. The response from Intercom is generic, does not engage the exact things I'm pointing, they're crazy charging what they're charging and not offering modular ways for clients to build their own plans, as I might need some stuff from the expensive plan but not the remaining 98% of features. They're simply blindly hungry.