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Send videoasks in Intercom conversations

If you use Intercom to chat with site visitors, you can enhance these interactions by inserting a videoask into any of your conversations.Ā 

Once you install the VideoAsk app in Intercom, you'll be able to use any of your videoasks as an in-app auto message, as a reply in conversations, as a bot follow-up action, or to your messenger home.

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Install the VideoAsk app

Use a videoask in your Intercom messenger

Use a videoask in Intercom conversations

Add a videoask to a custom bot flow

Install the VideoAsk App

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Search for VideoAsk in the Intercom app store.

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ClickĀ Install now.

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ClickĀ Authorize access.

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ClickĀ Accept.

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That's it! The VideoAsk app is installed! Now you can select where you want to use it:

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Note: To change which VideoAsk account is connected to your Intercom VideoAsk app, uninstall and reinstall the app.

Use a videoask in your Intercom messenger

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ClickĀ Add apps to your Messenger.

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ClickĀ Add an app.

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SelectĀ VideoAsk.

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SelectĀ Create a new block.

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You'll now see your videoasks listed. Select a videoaskĀ to use in this block.

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Note: If you see a "no forms" message and you're a team member in an organization where the videoask was shared with you, make sure you've connected the VideoAsk account that owns the videoask you're looking for.

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If you'd like to pass known information (such as contact details) from Intercom to your VideoAsk response, then map it here:

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Note: Mapping contact fields requires that you enable the contact form in your videoask.

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When finished, clickĀ Next.

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Give the block a title, subtitle, customize the button text and choose whether to save this block for later use. Then clickĀ Insert block.

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ClickĀ Save and set live.

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Test your block by activating your Intercom Messenger on your website. Your VideoAsk block will display with the call to action:

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Now when visitors click this block, they can view and complete your videoask from within the Intercom Messenger:

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Use a videoask in Intercom conversations

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Now that you've installed the VideoAsk app, it will appear at the bottom of each conversation as an answer block option. Click the VideoAsk logo to add a videoask to your conversation.

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Click Create a new block.

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Select which videoaskĀ you would like to send.

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If you'd like to pass contact information from Intercom to your videoask, map it here and click Next.

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Give your block a title, subtitle, customize the button text and choose whether to save the block for later use. Then clickĀ Insert block.

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You can add any additional text to your response message before sending the videoask. When ready, click Send.

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In the Intercom chat, your visitor will now see your message with the button prompt to start the videoask:

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When the call to action is clicked, the videoask will open and can be completed from within the Messenger chat.Ā 

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A summary of form responses will appear in the agent's Intercom conversation, with a link to view the entire interaction in VideoAsk:Ā 

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In your VideoAsk inbox, the responses you receive using Intercom blocks will automatically appear with the Intercom conversation and user ids in the interaction information:

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Add a videoask to a custom bot flow

You can add a videoask to an Intercom custom bot where messenger apps are allowed (From a button and From new conversations).

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In the Operator, click New Custom Bot.

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ClickĀ Add a messenger app.

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SelectĀ VideoAsk.

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ClickĀ Create a new block and proceed through the setup process as documented above.

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When finished, clickĀ Insert block.

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Your videoask will now automatically display following the rules you have set for your custom bot. When finished, clickĀ Save and close orĀ Set live.

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